Active Learning

Definitions

1. A machine learning training concept related to active learning and how model parameters are learned or stabilized. It influences how models are trained, evaluated, or served, and it can materially change accuracy, robustness, latency, cost, or interpretability. Practitioners usually track it alongside data quality, compute limits, and validation results when moving models into production.

   In plain English: Active Learning is an AI concept that affects how a model learns, predicts, or gets deployed. It matters because it changes quality, speed, or reliability.

   Example: "We revisited Active Learning during model evaluation because the first run looked fine offline but behaved poorly in production, and the adjustment improved quality without breaking our latency or compute budget."

Related Terms

• Synthetic Data
• Activation Function
• Adaptive Learning Rate
• Adversarial Training
• AutoML
• Backpropagation
• Batch Size
• Bayesian Optimization
• Contrastive Loss
• Cross-Entropy Loss
• Curriculum Learning
• Deep Learning
• Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Direct Preference Optimization
• Distributed Training
• Dropout Detail
• End-to-End Learning
• Exponential Moving Average
• Federated Averaging
• Floating Point Quantization
• Flow Matching
• Full Fine-Tuning
• Gradient
• Gradient Accumulation
• Gradient Checkpointing
• Gradient Clipping
• Gradient Descent
• Gradient Explosion
• Gradient Vanishing
• Group Normalization
• Hyperparameter Tuning Detail
• Imitation Learning
• Incremental Learning
• Instruction Tuning
• INT4
• INT8
• Knowledge Distillation
• Layer Normalization
• Leaky ReLU
• Learning Curriculum
• Learning Rate
• Learning Rate Schedule
• Learning Rate Warmup
• Learning to Rank
• Hyperparameter Sweep
• Teacher-Student Model
• Model Distillation Loss
• Training Loss Curve