An introduction to Active Learning

Santiago Valdarrama
3 min readMay 7, 2021
One of the hypothetical circuit boards that our factory produced.

Do you know what scares me? Having to go through a mountain of data to come up with labels.

Data labeling is hard, expensive, and sometimes outright prohibitive. Data labeling can kill your machine learning project even before it starts.

Let’s kick this off with a hypothetical problem: we’d like to build a model capable of visually inspecting photos of circuit boards and…

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Santiago Valdarrama

I build machine learning systems until 5 pm. Then I come here and tell you stories about them.