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Learning from Noisy Label Distributions

Machine Learning 2017-08-17 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a novel machine learning problem, that is, learning a classifier from noisy label distributions. In this problem, each instance with a feature vector belongs to at least one group. Then, instead of the true label of each instance, we observe the label distribution of the instances associated with a group, where the label distribution is distorted by an unknown noise. Our goals are to (1) estimate the true label of each instance, and (2) learn a classifier that predicts the true label of a new instance. We propose a probabilistic model that considers true label distributions of groups and parameters that represent the noise as hidden variables. The model can be learned based on a variational Bayesian method. In numerical experiments, we show that the proposed model outperforms existing methods in terms of the estimation of the true labels of instances.

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@article{arxiv.1708.04529,
  title  = {Learning from Noisy Label Distributions},
  author = {Yuya Yoshikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04529},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Accepted in ICANN2017

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