%0 Journal Article %T A note on active learning for smooth problems %A Satyaki Mahalanabis %J Computer Science %D 2011 %I arXiv %X We show that the disagreement coefficient of certain smooth hypothesis classes is $O(m)$, where $m$ is the dimension of the hypothesis space, thereby answering a question posed in \cite{friedman09}. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3095v1