Elements of Active Continuous Learning and Uncertainty Self-Awareness: a Narrow Implementation for Face and Facial Expression Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05574v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:01:53 GMT
• Title: Elements of Active Continuous Learning and Uncertainty Self-Awareness: a Narrow Implementation for Face and Facial Expression Recognition
• Abstract summary: Reflection on one's thought process and making corrections to it if there exists dissatisfaction in its performance is one of the essential traits of intelligence.<n>Here, we present the self-awareness mechanism emulation in the form of a supervising artificial neural network (ANN) observing patterns in activations of another underlying ANN.<n>The trustworthiness verdict triggers the active learning mode, giving elements of agency to the machine learning algorithm that asks for human help in high uncertainty and confusion conditions.
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• Abstract: Reflection on one's thought process and making corrections to it if there exists dissatisfaction in its performance is, perhaps, one of the essential traits of intelligence. However, such high-level abstract concepts mandatory for Artificial General Intelligence can be modelled even at the low level of narrow Machine Learning algorithms. Here, we present the self-awareness mechanism emulation in the form of a supervising artificial neural network (ANN) observing patterns in activations of another underlying ANN in a search for indications of the high uncertainty of the underlying ANN and, therefore, the trustworthiness of its predictions. The underlying ANN is a convolutional neural network (CNN) ensemble employed for face recognition and facial expression tasks. The self-awareness ANN has a memory region where its past performance information is stored, and its learnable parameters are adjusted during the training to optimize the performance. The trustworthiness verdict triggers the active learning mode, giving elements of agency to the machine learning algorithm that asks for human help in high uncertainty and confusion conditions.

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