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In partial label learning (PLL), every sample is associated with a candidate label set comprising the ground-truth label and several noisy labels. The conventional PLL assumes the noisy labels are randomly generated (instance-independent),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Fuchao Yang , Jianhong Cheng , Hui Liu , Yongqiang Dong , Yuheng Jia , Junhui Hou

Label noise presents a fundamental challenge in modern machine learning, especially when large-scale datasets are generated via automated processes. An increasingly common and important data paradigm, particularly in domains like medical…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-29 Zhu Guojun , Zhang Sanguo , Ren Mingyang

Label noise is a common problem in real-world datasets, affecting both model training and validation. Clean data are essential for achieving strong performance and ensuring reliable evaluation. While various techniques have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Henrique Pickler , Jorge K. S. Kamassury , Danilo Silva

Label noise is frequently observed in real-world large-scale datasets. The noise is introduced due to a variety of reasons; it is heterogeneous and feature-dependent. Most existing approaches to handling noisy labels fall into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yikai Zhang , Songzhu Zheng , Pengxiang Wu , Mayank Goswami , Chao Chen

We investigate probabilistic decoupling of labels supplied for training, from the underlying classes for prediction. Decoupling enables an inference scheme general enough to implement many classification problems, including supervised,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Jeppe Nørregaard , Lars Kai Hansen

Noisy multi-label learning has garnered increasing attention due to the challenges posed by collecting large-scale accurate labels, making noisy labels a more practical alternative. Motivated by noisy multi-class learning, the introduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Shikun Li , Xiaobo Xia , Hansong Zhang , Shiming Ge , Tongliang Liu

Learning from noisy labels (LNL) is crucial in deep learning, in which one of the approaches is to identify clean-label samples from poorly-annotated datasets. Such an identification is challenging because the conventional LNL problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Cuong Nguyen , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

We consider the problem of learning classifiers for labeled data that has been distributed across several nodes. Our goal is to find a single classifier, with small approximation error, across all datasets while minimizing the communication…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-06 Hal Daume , Jeff M. Phillips , Avishek Saha , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Data lies at the core of modern deep learning. The impressive performance of supervised learning is built upon a base of massive accurately labeled data. However, in some real-world applications, accurate labeling might not be viable;…

Mislabeled samples are ubiquitous in real-world datasets as rule-based or expert labeling is usually based on incorrect assumptions or subject to biased opinions. Neural networks can "memorize" these mislabeled samples and, as a result,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Katharina Rombach , Gabriel Michau , Olga Fink

Noise in data appears to be inevitable in most real-world machine learning applications and would cause severe overfitting problems. Not only can data features contain noise, but labels are also prone to be noisy due to human input. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Weipeng Huang , Qin Li , Yang Xiao , Cheng Qiao , Tie Cai , Junwei Liang , Neil J. Hurley , Guangyuan Piao

Many time series classification tasks, where labels vary over time, are affected by label noise that also varies over time. Such noise can cause label quality to improve, worsen, or periodically change over time. We first propose and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sujay Nagaraj , Walter Gerych , Sana Tonekaboni , Anna Goldenberg , Berk Ustun , Thomas Hartvigsen

Data-driven software engineering processes, such as vulnerability prediction heavily rely on the quality of the data used. In this paper, we observe that it is infeasible to obtain a noise-free security defect dataset in practice. Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Roland Croft , M. Ali Babar , Huaming Chen

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Yuya Yoshikawa

Numerous researches have proved that deep neural networks (DNNs) can fit everything in the end even given data with noisy labels, and result in poor generalization performance. However, recent studies suggest that DNNs tend to gradually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hao Yang , Youzhi Jin , Ziyin Li , Deng-Bao Wang , Lei Miao , Xin Geng , Min-Ling Zhang

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

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

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

Instance- and Label-dependent label Noise (ILN) widely exists in real-world datasets but has been rarely studied. In this paper, we focus on Bounded Instance- and Label-dependent label Noise (BILN), a particular case of ILN where the label…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-14 Jiacheng Cheng , Tongliang Liu , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao , Dacheng Tao

We propose a novel sample selection method for image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Existing methods typically consider small-loss samples as correctly labeled. However, some correctly labeled samples are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Weiran Pan , Wei Wei , Feida Zhu , Yong Deng