[D] What is the current consensus on the effectiveness of Active Learning?

There is a lot of research going on in Active Learning but I feel there is nothing conclusive coming out of this field. A lot of methods are struggling to beat the random sampling baseline.

For example, they used to publish this promising paper of using drop out for uncertainty estimation:
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02142.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02142.pdf)

But people tried to use it and it was just not performing well. Since then, I am not sure if DL methods can properly bootstrap themselves and identify …

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