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Large language models readily memorize arbitrary training instances, such as label noise, yet they perform strikingly well on reasoning tasks. In this work, we investigate how language models memorize label noise, and why such memorization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yupei Du , Philipp Mondorf , Silvia Casola , Yuekun Yao , Robert Litschko , Barbara Plank

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

With the proliferation of algorithmic decision-making, increased scrutiny has been placed on these systems. This paper explores the relationship between the quality of the training data and the overall fairness of the models trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Aki Barry , Lei Han , Gianluca Demartini

Studies show that refining real-world categories into semantic subcategories contributes to better image modeling and classification. Previous image sub-categorization work relying on labeled images and WordNet's hierarchy is not only…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Yazhou Yao , Jian Zhang , Fumin Shen , Xiansheng Hua , Wankou Yang , Zhenmin Tang

Falsely annotated samples, also known as noisy labels, can significantly harm the performance of deep learning models. Two main approaches for learning with noisy labels are global noise estimation and data filtering. Global noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yuval Grinberg , Nimrod Harel , Jacob Goldberger , Ofir Lindenbaum

Training deep networks with noisy labels leads to poor generalization and degraded accuracy due to overfitting to label noise. Existing approaches for learning with noisy labels often rely on the availability of a clean subset of data. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 David Szczecina , Nicholas Pellegrino , Paul Fieguth

Despite the popularity and success of deep learning, there is limited understanding of when, how, and why neural networks generalize to unseen examples. Since learning can be seen as extracting information from data, we formally study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Hrayr Harutyunyan

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

In the field of medical image analysis, deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable success in enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. However, the reliability of these models is heavily dependent on the quality of training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Maolin Li , Giacomo Tarroni

In recent years, the remarkable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in computer vision is largely due to large-scale, high-quality labeled datasets. Training directly on real-world datasets with label noise may result in overfitting. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yuandi Zhao , Qianxi Xia , Yang Sun , Zhijie Wen , Liyan Ma , Shihui Ying

Many advances of deep learning techniques originate from the efforts of addressing the image classification task on large-scale datasets. However, the construction of such clean datasets is costly and time-consuming since the Internet is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Jia Li , Yafei Song , Jianfeng Zhu , Lele Cheng , Ying Su , Lin Ye , Pengcheng Yuan , Shumin Han

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

Label noise is ubiquitous in various machine learning scenarios such as self-labeling with model predictions and erroneous data annotation. Many existing approaches are based on heuristics such as sample losses, which might not be flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhihao Wang , Zongyu Lin , Peiqi Liu , Guidong ZHeng , Junjie Wen , Xianxin Chen , Yujun Chen , Zhilin Yang

We consider learning from data of variable quality that may be obtained from different heterogeneous sources. Addressing learning from heterogeneous data in its full generality is a challenging problem. In this paper, we adopt instead a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Shuang Song , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Anand D. Sarwate

Learning with curriculum has shown great effectiveness in tasks where the data contains noisy (corrupted) labels, since the curriculum can be used to re-weight or filter out noisy samples via proper design. However, obtaining curriculum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Mengying Sun , Jing Xing , Bin Chen , Jiayu Zhou

We tackle the problem of learning concept classifiers from videos on the web without using manually labeled data. Although metadata attached to videos (e.g., video titles, descriptions) can be of help collecting training data for the target…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Ryota Hinami , Junwei Liang , Shin'ichi Satoh , Alexander Hauptmann

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

With the development of deep learning, medical image classification has been significantly improved. However, deep learning requires massive data with labels. While labeling the samples by human experts is expensive and time-consuming,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Jiarun Liu , Ruirui Li , Chuan Sun

In this paper, we improve semantic segmentation by automatically learning from Flickr images associated with a particular keyword, without relying on any explicit user annotations, thus substantially alleviating the dependence on accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiangjiang Liu , Philip H. S. Torr

Label noise poses an important challenge in machine learning, especially in deep learning, in which large models with high expressive power dominate the field. Models of that kind are prone to memorizing incorrect labels, thereby harming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Julian Lienen , Eyke Hüllermeier