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In non-stationary environments, learning machines usually confront the domain adaptation scenario where the data distribution does change over time. Previous domain adaptation works have achieved great success in theory and practice.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Zhongyi Han , Xian-Jin Gui , Chaoran Cui , Yilong Yin

There has been much interest in recent years in learning good classifiers from data with noisy labels. Most work on learning from noisy labels has focused on standard loss-based performance measures. However, many machine learning problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Mingyuan Zhang , Shivani Agarwal

Large training datasets almost always contain examples with inaccurate or incorrect labels. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) tend to overfit training label noise, resulting in poorer model performance in practice. To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chen Gong , Kong Bin , Eric J. Seibel , Xin Wang , Youbing Yin , Qi Song

In the presence of noisy or incorrect labels, neural networks have the undesirable tendency to memorize information about the noise. Standard regularization techniques such as dropout, weight decay or data augmentation sometimes help, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Hrayr Harutyunyan , Kyle Reing , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Labeling errors in datasets are common, arising in a variety of contexts, such as human labeling, noisy labeling, and weak labeling (i.e., image classification). Although neural networks (NNs) can tolerate modest amounts of these errors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Louis L. Chen , Bobbie Chern , Eric Eckstrand , Amogh Mahapatra , Johannes O. Royset

Label noise is a critical factor that degrades the generalization performance of deep neural networks, thus leading to severe issues in real-world problems. Existing studies have employed strategies based on either loss or uncertainty to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Wonyoung Shin , Jung-Woo Ha , Shengzhe Li , Yongwoo Cho , Hoyean Song , Sunyoung Kwon

In label-noise learning, the transition matrix plays a key role in building statistically consistent classifiers. Existing consistent estimators for the transition matrix have been developed by exploiting anchor points. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Xuefeng Li , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Learning from Noisy Labels (LNL) remains a fundamental challenge in deep learning because real-world datasets often contain corrupted annotations. Most existing methods rely on label correction or sample selection mechanisms. In contrast,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiayu Xu , Junbiao Pang

For classification tasks, deep neural networks are prone to overfitting in the presence of label noise. Although existing methods are able to alleviate this problem at low noise levels, they encounter significant performance reduction at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jingyi Xu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Kai Fong Ernest Chong

Recently, over-parameterized deep networks, with increasingly more network parameters than training samples, have dominated the performances of modern machine learning. However, when the training data is corrupted, it has been well-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Sheng Liu , Zhihui Zhu , Qing Qu , Chong You

Noisy PN learning is the problem of binary classification when training examples may be mislabeled (flipped) uniformly with noise rate rho1 for positive examples and rho0 for negative examples. We propose Rank Pruning (RP) to solve noisy PN…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-11 Curtis G. Northcutt , Tailin Wu , Isaac L. Chuang

We discuss stability for a class of learning algorithms with respect to noisy labels. The algorithms we consider are for regression, and they involve the minimization of regularized risk functionals, such as L(f) := 1/N sum_i…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Cynthia Rudin

Computer vision systems recently made a big leap thanks to deep neural networks. However, these systems require correctly labeled large datasets in order to be trained properly, which is very difficult to obtain for medical applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy , Şaban Gönül , Banu Turgut , Berker Bakbak

Label noise in data has long been an important problem in supervised learning applications as it affects the effectiveness of many widely used classification methods. Recently, important real-world applications, such as medical diagnosis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-02 Shunan Yao , Bradley Rava , Xin Tong , Gareth James

In real-world scenarios, many large-scale datasets often contain inaccurate labels, i.e., noisy labels, which may confuse model training and lead to performance degradation. To overcome this issue, Label Noise Learning (LNL) has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yongliang Ding , Tao Zhou , Chuang Zhang , Yijing Luo , Juan Tang , Chen Gong

Flat regions of the neural network loss landscape have long been hypothesized to correlate with better generalization properties. A closely related but distinct problem is training models that are robust to internal perturbations to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Philip Jacobson , Ben Feinberg , Suhas Kumar , Sapan Agarwal , T. Patrick Xiao , Christopher Bennett

Several works in computer vision have demonstrated the effectiveness of active learning for adapting the recognition model when new unlabeled data becomes available. Most of these works consider that labels obtained from the annotator are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sudipta Paul , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Large datasets in NLP suffer from noisy labels, due to erroneous automatic and human annotation procedures. We study the problem of text classification with label noise, and aim to capture this noise through an auxiliary noise model over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Siddhant Garg , Goutham Ramakrishnan , Varun Thumbe

Because deep learning is vulnerable to noisy labels, sample selection techniques, which train networks with only clean labeled data, have attracted a great attention. However, if the labels are dominantly corrupted by few classes, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Kyeongbo Kong , Junggi Lee , Youngchul Kwak , Young-Rae Cho , Seong-Eun Kim , Woo-Jin Song

We develop the first active learning method for contextual linear optimization. Specifically, we introduce a label acquisition algorithm that sequentially decides whether to request the ``labels'' of feature samples from an unlabeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Mo Liu , Paul Grigas , Heyuan Liu , Zuo-Jun Max Shen