# From Limited Annotated Raw Material Data to Quality Production Data: A Case Study in the Milk Industry (Technical Report)

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12302 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.12302/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 5 of its 62 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 26 Apr 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.02754/) (2016)
- [Pool-Based Sequential Active Learning for Regression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.04735/) (2018)
- [Deep Air Learning: Interpolation, Prediction, and Feature Analysis of Fine-grained Air Quality](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.00939/) (2017)
- [Multi-output Bus Travel Time Prediction with Convolutional LSTM Neural Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.02791/) (2019)
- [Using Deep Learning to Extend the Range of Air-Pollution Monitoring and Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.09425/) (2018)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Industry 4.0 offers opportunities to combine multiple sensor data sources using IoT technologies for better utilization of raw material in production lines. A common belief that data is readily available (the big data phenomenon), is oftentimes challenged by the need to effectively acquire quality data under severe constraints. In this paper we propose a design methodology, using active learning to enhance learning capabilities, for building a model of production outcome using a constrained amount of raw material training data. The proposed methodology extends existing active learning methods to effectively solve regression-based learning problems and may serve settings where data acquisition requires excessive resources in the physical world. We further suggest a set of qualitative measures to analyze learners performance. The proposed methodology is demonstrated using an actual application in the milk industry, where milk is gathered from multiple small milk farms and brought to a dairy production plant to be processed into cottage cheese.