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Deep learning faces a formidable challenge when handling noisy labels, as models tend to overfit samples affected by label noise. This challenge is further compounded by the presence of instance-dependent noise (IDN), a realistic form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Arpit Garg , Cuong Nguyen , Rafael Felix , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

We consider the problem of training a model under the presence of label noise. Current approaches identify samples with potentially incorrect labels and reduce their influence on the learning process by either assigning lower weights to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Duc Tam Nguyen , Thi-Phuong-Nhung Ngo , Zhongyu Lou , Michael Klar , Laura Beggel , Thomas Brox

This work examines how to train fair classifiers in settings where training labels are corrupted with random noise, and where the error rates of corruption depend both on the label class and on the membership function for a protected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Jialu Wang , Yang Liu , Caleb Levy

Noisy labels are both inevitable and problematic in machine learning methods, as they negatively impact models' generalization ability by causing overfitting. In the context of learning with noise, the transition matrix plays a crucial role…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jiahui Li , Tai-Wei Chang , Kun Kuang , Ximing Li , Long Chen , Jun Zhou

Label noise is increasingly prevalent in datasets acquired from noisy channels. Existing approaches that detect and remove label noise generally rely on some form of supervision, which is not scalable and error-prone. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Karishma Sharma , Pinar Donmez , Enming Luo , Yan Liu , I. Zeki Yalniz

A similarity label indicates whether two instances belong to the same class while a class label shows the class of the instance. Without class labels, a multi-class classifier could be learned from similarity-labeled pairwise data by meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Songhua Wu , Xiaobo Xia , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Nannan Wang , Haifeng Liu , Gang Niu

Label noise detection has been widely studied in Machine Learning because of its importance in improving training data quality. Satisfactory noise detection has been achieved by adopting ensembles of classifiers. In this approach, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Kecia G. Moura , Ricardo B. C. Prudêncio , George D. C. Cavalcanti

Current state-of-the-art deep learning systems for visual object recognition and detection use purely supervised training with regularization such as dropout to avoid overfitting. The performance depends critically on the amount of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Scott Reed , Honglak Lee , Dragomir Anguelov , Christian Szegedy , Dumitru Erhan , Andrew Rabinovich

Learning from noisy-labeled data is crucial for real-world applications. Traditional Noisy-Label Learning (NLL) methods categorize training data into clean and noisy sets based on the loss distribution of training samples. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Po-Hsuan Huang , Chia-Ching Lin , Chih-Fan Hsu , Ming-Ching Chang , Wei-Chao Chen

Noisy training labels can hurt model performance. Most approaches that aim to address label noise assume label noise is independent from the input features. In practice, however, label noise is often feature or \textit{instance-dependent},…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Donna Tjandra , Jenna Wiens

Deep neural networks can memorize corrupted labels, making data quality critical for model performance, yet real-world datasets are frequently compromised by both label noise and input noise. This paper proposes a mutual information-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jinghan Yang , Jiayu Weng

We study the problem of learning conditional generators from noisy labeled samples, where the labels are corrupted by random noise. A standard training of conditional GANs will not only produce samples with wrong labels, but also generate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-09 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Ashish Khetan , Zinan Lin , Sewoong Oh

The noise transition matrix plays a central role in the problem of learning with noisy labels. Among many other reasons, a large number of existing solutions rely on access to it. Identifying and estimating the transition matrix without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Yang Liu , Hao Cheng , Kun Zhang

With the explosion of massive, widely available unlabeled data in the past years, finding label and time efficient, robust learning algorithms has become ever more important in theory and in practice. We study the paradigm of active…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Max Hopkins , Daniel Kane , Shachar Lovett , Gaurav Mahajan

In learning tasks with label noise, improving model robustness against overfitting is a pivotal challenge because the model eventually memorizes labels, including the noisy ones. Identifying the samples with noisy labels and preventing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani , Reza Nasirigerdeh , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Multi-label image classification has generated significant interest in recent years and the performance of such systems often suffers from the not so infrequent occurrence of incorrect or missing labels in the training data. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Zhuolin Jiang , Jan Silovsky , Man-Hung Siu , William Hartmann , Herbert Gish , Sancar Adali

Noisy labels in large E-commerce product data (i.e., product items are placed into incorrect categories) are a critical issue for product categorization task because they are unavoidable, non-trivial to remove and degrade prediction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Huy Nguyen , Devashish Khatwani

We propose a simulation framework for generating instance-dependent noisy labels via a pseudo-labeling paradigm. We show that the distribution of the synthetic noisy labels generated with our framework is closer to human labels compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Keren Gu , Xander Masotto , Vandana Bachani , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Jack Nikodem , Dong Yin

We pose a fundamental question in computational learning theory: can we efficiently test whether a training set satisfies the assumptions of a given noise model? This question has remained unaddressed despite decades of research on learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Surbhi Goel , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

In this paper we provide machine learning practitioners with tools to answer the question: is there class-conditional noise in my labels? In particular, we present hypothesis tests to check whether a given dataset of instance-label pairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Rafael Poyiadzi , Weisong Yang , Niall Twomey , Raul Santos-Rodriguez