Incremental learning with sample queries
Joel Ratsaby · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1998
The classical theory of pattern recognition assumes labeled examples appear according to unknown underlying class conditional probability distributions where the pattern classes are picked randomly in a passive manner according to their a priori probabilities. This paper presents experimental results for an incremental nearest-neighbor learning algorithm which actively selects samples from different pattern classes according to a querying rule as opposed to the a priori probabilities. The amount of improvement of this query-based approach over the passive batch approach depends on the complexity of the Bayes rule.