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In-Context Learning (ICL) is suffering from unsatisfactory performance and under-calibration due to high prior bias and unfaithful confidence. Some previous works fine-tuned language models for better ICL performance with enormous datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yufeng Zhao , Yoshihiro Sakai , Naoya Inoue

This paper presents a robust approach for learning from noisy pairwise comparisons. We propose sufficient conditions on the loss function under which the risk minimization framework becomes robust to noise in the pairwise similar dissimilar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Samartha S Maheshwara , Naresh Manwani

Neural Encoders are frequently used in the NLP domain to perform dense retrieval tasks, for instance, to generate the candidate documents for a given query in question-answering tasks. However, sparse annotation and label noise in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Arnab Sharma

To collect large scale annotated data, it is inevitable to introduce label noise, i.e., incorrect class labels. To be robust against label noise, many successful methods rely on the noisy classifiers (i.e., models trained on the noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Songzhu Zheng , Pengxiang Wu , Aman Goswami , Mayank Goswami , Dimitris Metaxas , Chao Chen

Noisy labels, resulting from mistakes in manual labeling or webly data collecting for supervised learning, can cause neural networks to overfit the misleading information and degrade the generalization performance. Self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Cheng Tan , Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Stan Z. Li

We study the problem of multiple kernel learning from noisy labels. This is in contrast to most of the previous studies on multiple kernel learning that mainly focus on developing efficient algorithms and assume perfectly labeled training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Tianbao Yang , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Lijun Zhang , Yang Zhou

We propose smoothed max pooling loss and its application to keyword spotting systems. The proposed approach jointly trains an encoder (to detect keyword parts) and a decoder (to detect whole keyword) in a semi-supervised manner. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Hyun-Jin Park , Patrick Violette , Niranjan Subrahmanya

In learning with noisy labels, the sample selection approach is very popular, which regards small-loss data as correctly labeled during training. However, losses are generated on-the-fly based on the model being trained with noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Xiaobo Xia , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Jun Yu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

The monotonic ordinal classification has increased the interest of researchers and practitioners within machine learning community in the last years. In real applications, the problems with monotonicity constraints are very frequent. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-23 José-Ramón Cano , Julián Luengo , Salvador García

A popular approach to decrease the need for costly manual annotation of large data sets is weak supervision, which introduces problems of noisy labels, coverage and bias. Methods for overcoming these problems have either relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Andreas Stephan , Benjamin Roth

Deep learning-based classification of rare anemia disorders is challenged by the lack of training data and instance-level annotations. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has shown to be an effective solution, yet it suffers from low accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Salome Kazeminia , Ario Sadafi , Asya Makhro , Anna Bogdanova , Shadi Albarqouni , Carsten Marr

It is important to learn various types of classifiers given training data with noisy labels. Noisy labels, in the most popular noise model hitherto, are corrupted from ground-truth labels by an unknown noise transition matrix. Thus, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Bo Han , Jiangchao Yao , Gang Niu , Mingyuan Zhou , Ivor Tsang , Ya Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

The most competitive noisy label learning methods rely on an unsupervised classification of clean and noisy samples, where samples classified as noisy are re-labelled and "MixMatched" with the clean samples. These methods have two issues in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Filipe R. Cordeiro , Vasileios Belagiannis , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

The efficacy of deep learning depends on large-scale data sets that have been carefully curated with reliable data acquisition and annotation processes. However, acquiring such large-scale data sets with precise annotations is very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ragav Sachdeva , Filipe R. Cordeiro , Vasileios Belagiannis , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

The x-vector architecture has recently achieved state-of-the-art results on the speaker verification task. This architecture incorporates a central layer, referred to as temporal pooling, which stacks statistical parameters of the acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Mickael Rouvier , Pierre-Michel Bousquet , Jarod Duret

Audio tagging is the task of predicting the presence or absence of sound classes within an audio clip. Previous work in audio tagging focused on relatively small datasets limited to recognising a small number of sound classes. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Qiuqiang Kong , Changsong Yu , Turab Iqbal , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

This paper provides theoretical insights into high-dimensional binary classification with class-conditional noisy labels. Specifically, we study the behavior of a linear classifier with a label noisiness aware loss function, when both the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aymane El Firdoussi , Mohamed El Amine Seddik

Recent multi-modal audio-language models (ALMs) excel at text-audio retrieval but struggle with frame-wise audio understanding. Prior works use temporal-aware labels or unsupervised training to improve frame-wise capabilities, but they…

Imitation learning algorithms provide state-of-the-art results on many structured prediction tasks by learning near-optimal search policies. Such algorithms assume training-time access to an expert that can provide the optimal action at any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Kianté Brantley , Amr Sharaf , Hal Daumé

Existing salient instance detection (SID) methods typically learn from pixel-level annotated datasets. In this paper, we present the first weakly-supervised approach to the SID problem. Although weak supervision has been considered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau