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An implementation of the BatchBALD algorithm

Reason this release was yanked:

Bug in SampledJointEntropy (uses the full tensor instead of the chunked one).

Project description

BatchBALD Redux

Clean reimplementation of "BatchBALD: Efficient and Diverse Batch Acquisition for Deep Bayesian Active Learning"

For an introduction & more information, see http://batchbald.ml/. The paper can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08158.

The original implementation used in the paper is available at https://github.com/BlackHC/BatchBALD.

We are grateful for fastai's nbdev which is powering this package.

Install

pip install batchbald_redux

Motivation

BatchBALD is an algorithm and acquisition function for Active Learning in a Bayesian setting using BNNs and MC dropout.

The aquisition function is the mutual information between the joint of a candidate batch and the model parameters $\omega$:

{% raw %} $$a_{\text{BatchBALD}}((y_b)_B) = I[(y_b)_B;\omega]$$ {% endraw %}

The best candidate batch is one that maximizes this acquisition function.

In the paper, we show that this function satisfies sub-modularity, which provides us an optimality guarantee for a greedy algorithm. The candidate batch is selected using greedy expansion.

Joint entropies are hard to estimate and, for everything to work, one also has to use consistent MC dropout, which keeps a set of dropout masks fixed while scoring the pool set.

To aid reproducibility and baseline reproduction, we provide this simpler and clearer reimplementation.

How to use

We provide a simple example experiment that uses this package here.

To get a candidate batch using BatchBALD, we provide a simple API in batchbald_redux.batchbald:

from nbdev.showdoc import *
from batchbald_redux.batchbald import get_batchbald_batch

show_doc(get_batchbald_batch)

get_batchbald_batch[source]

get_batchbald_batch(logits_N_K_C:Tensor, batch_size:int, num_samples:int, dtype=None, device=None)

We also provide a simple implementation of consistent MC dropout in batchbald_redux.consistent_mc_dropout.

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