Active Learning of Ordinal Embeddings: A User Study on Football Data

Published: 13 Apr 2023, Last Modified: 13 Apr 2023Accepted by TMLREveryoneRevisionsBibTeX
Abstract: Humans innately measure distance between instances in an unlabeled dataset using an unknown similarity function. Distance metrics can only serve as proxy for similarity in information retrieval of similar instances. Learning a good similarity function from human annotations improves the quality of retrievals. This work uses deep metric learning to learn these user-defined similarity functions from few annotations for a large football trajectory dataset. We adapt an entropy-based active learning method with recent work from triplet mining to collect easy-to-answer but still informative annotations from human participants and use them to train a deep convolutional network that generalizes to unseen samples. Our user study shows that our approach improves the quality of the information retrieval compared to a previous deep metric learning approach that relies on a Siamese network. Specifically, we shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of passive sampling heuristics and active learners alike by analyzing the participants' response efficacy. To this end, we collect accuracy, algorithmic time complexity, the participants' fatigue and time-to-response, qualitative self-assessment and statements, as well as the effects of mixed-expertise annotators and their consistency on model performance and transfer-learning.
Submission Length: Long submission (more than 12 pages of main content)
Changes Since Last Submission: We address the reviewers feedback w.r.t. to presentation and clarifications for the minor revision.
Video: https://youtu.be/xqOJAtjxjKE
Code: https://github.com/crispchris/Active-Learning-of-Ordinal-Embeddings
Assigned Action Editor: ~Purnamrita_Sarkar1
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Submission Number: 297
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