arXiv AI By Md Abdullah Al Forhad, Weishi Shi

Deep Active Re-Labeling: Toward Noise-Resilient Annotation Efficiency

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arXiv:2606. 08718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Deep Active Learning (DAL) effectively reduces human annotation costs, its efficacy is constrained by human annotation errors.

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