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Statistically consistent methods based on the noise transition matrix ($T$) offer a theoretically grounded solution to Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL), with guarantees of convergence to the optimal clean-data classifier. In practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Chen Feng , Zhuo Zhi , Zhao Huang , Jiawei Ge , Ling Xiao , Nicu Sebe , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

Many industrial applications use Metric Learning as a way to circumvent scalability issues when designing systems with a high number of classes. Because of this, this field of research is attracting a lot of interest from the academic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Carlos Roig , David Varas , Issey Masuda , Juan Carlos Riveiro , Elisenda Bou-Balust

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

In label-noise learning, estimating the transition matrix is a hot topic as the matrix plays an important role in building statistically consistent classifiers. Traditionally, the transition from clean labels to noisy labels (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Shuo Yang , Erkun Yang , Bo Han , Yang Liu , Min Xu , Gang Niu , Tongliang Liu

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

State-of-the-art object detectors rely on regressing and classifying an extensive list of possible anchors, which are divided into positive and negative samples based on their intersection-over-union (IoU) with corresponding groundtruth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Hengduo Li , Zuxuan Wu , Chen Zhu , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher , Larry S. Davis

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

Learning from multiple annotators aims to induce a high-quality classifier from training instances, where each of them is associated with a set of possibly noisy labels provided by multiple annotators under the influence of their varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Jingzheng Li , Hailong Sun , Jiyi Li , Zhijun Chen , Renshuai Tao , Yufei Ge

Label noise may affect the generalization of classifiers, and the effective learning of main patterns from samples with noisy labels is an important challenge. Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks tend to prioritize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Yi Sun , Yan Tian , Yiping Xu , Jianxiang Li

Deep learning with noisy labels presents significant challenges. In this work, we theoretically characterize the role of label noise from a feature learning perspective. Specifically, we consider a signal-noise data distribution, where each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Andi Han , Wei Huang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Gang Niu , Wuyang Chen , Junchi Yan , Akiko Takeda , Taiji Suzuki

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

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

Often, the data used to train ranking models is subject to label noise. For example, in web-search, labels created from clickstream data are noisy due to issues such as insufficient information in item descriptions on the SERP, query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Dany Haddad

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

Source-free domain adaptation aims to adapt a source-trained model to an unlabeled target domain without access to the source data. It has attracted growing attention in recent years, where existing approaches focus on self-training that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Idit Diamant , Amir Rosenfeld , Idan Achituve , Jacob Goldberger , Arnon Netzer

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

In noisy label learning, estimating noisy class posteriors plays a fundamental role for developing consistent classifiers, as it forms the basis for estimating clean class posteriors and the transition matrix. Existing methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Rui Zhao , Bin Shi , Jianfei Ruan , Tianze Pan , Bo Dong

Many state-of-the-art noisy-label learning methods rely on learning mechanisms that estimate the samples' clean labels during training and discard their original noisy labels. However, this approach prevents the learning of the relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Brandon Smart , Gustavo Carneiro

Existing research on learning with noisy labels mainly focuses on synthetic label noise. Synthetic noise, though has clean structures which greatly enabled statistical analyses, often fails to model real-world noise patterns. The recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jiaheng Wei , Zhaowei Zhu , Hao Cheng , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Yang Liu

Label noise will degenerate the performance of deep learning algorithms because deep neural networks easily overfit label errors. Let X and Y denote the instance and clean label, respectively. When Y is a cause of X, according to which many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-06 Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Bo Han , Gang Niu , Kun Zhang