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Excellent summary! Question, through. Isn't this just the same argument the Active Learning community has been hammering all along?

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So the insightful part isn't that smart selection works but rather the use of clustering as a filtering mechanism. Using it removes the need for an expensive oracle - which is a huge Dub

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Got it, thanks. I went somewhat deep into AL for my PhD so it kinda sounds obvious to me. Clustering is something you do as a side thing when applying e.g. entropy-based selection because otherwise you tend to pick outliers. But I guess if it where that obvious, someone would have done it before, so there's surely details I'm missing. Gotta check the paper 😁

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The innovation is here is to take two synergestic ideas - self-supervised learning and active learning based on clustering- and combining them. Rather than present a whole new idea- this is more about presenting a very compelling solution together.

Also, I'm sure others have had the idea before. Meta just happened to publish it in this manner

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