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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · November 6, 2026
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In the classification context where revealing the label of a sample is costly, we propose a new Active Learning (AL) strategy named k-Volume (kVol). It randomly selects a sample to be labeled according to the volume of the smallest ball containing its k nearest neighbors. kVol is highly versatile: it can be applied either in the input space or in the output space, and it enjoys the desirable properties of the three main families of AL strategies: density, diversity, and (when performed in the output space) uncertainty. From a theoretical perspective, we establish that kVol is asymptotically equivalent to uniform sampling over the support of the (input or output) data distribution. Based on experiments on various synthetic and real-life tabular datasets and images, we observe that kVol is surprisingly stable: whatever the classifier or the experimental setup, it still lies among the best AL strategies unlike other competitors that fail dramatically. In particular, kVol outperforms state-of-the-art competitors such as CoreSet, TypiClust or Uncertainty on several real-life datasets, at a low computational cost.