arXiv AI
Oct 5

Efficient Neural Field Learning via Adaptive Coverage and Focused Sampling

The paper introduces ACES, a structured sampling framework for implicit neural representations that separates coverage from importance. ACES builds adaptive spatial partitions to ensure domain coverage and reduce redundant sampling, while applying region-level importance weighting to focus on informative areas. The authors provide theoretical analysis showing reduced gradient variance and potential optimization gains, and demonstrate faster convergence and lower error on scientific field learning tasks compared to uniform and pointwise adaptive sampling.

By Guang Zhao, Xihaier Luo, Huan-Hsin Tseng, Seungjun Lee, Shinjae Yoo, Yihui Ren, Wei Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

SPARCL: Spatially Adaptive Regional Coverage for Active Learning in Chest X-ray Analysis

SPARCL (Spatially Adaptive Regional Coverage for Active Learning) is a new active learning strategy for chest X‑ray lesion segmentation that balances predictive uncertainty with spatial coverage using a concave coverage function. It directs annotation effort toward under‑labeled regions, reverts to standard uncertainty sampling when spatial variation is absent, and guarantees near‑optimal greedy batch selection through a monotone submodular objective. The authors also propose Spatial Inconsistency and Performance Coverage metrics to reveal regional fairness, and demonstrate that SPARCL achieves 95% of fully supervised performance using only 24% of the data versus 29% for the best baseline.

By Juho Jung, Seongjae Kang, Mijoo Kim, Sungduk Cho, Yunkyoung Jun, Sunghoon Joo, Yoona Hwang