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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

Learning with noisy labels remains challenging because over-parameterized networks memorize corrupted supervision. Meta-learning-based sample reweighting mitigates this by using a small clean subset to guide training, yet its behavior and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yiming Zhang , Chester Holtz , Gal Mishne , Alex Cloninger

Labeling errors in datasets are common, arising in a variety of contexts, such as human labeling, noisy labeling, and weak labeling (i.e., image classification). Although neural networks (NNs) can tolerate modest amounts of these errors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Louis L. Chen , Bobbie Chern , Eric Eckstrand , Amogh Mahapatra , Johannes O. Royset

Owing to the prohibitive costs of generating large amounts of labeled data, programmatic weak supervision is a growing paradigm within machine learning. In this setting, users design heuristics that provide noisy labels for subsets of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Dylan Sam , J. Zico Kolter

Robust loss minimization is an important strategy for handling robust learning issue on noisy labels. Current robust loss functions, however, inevitably involve hyperparameter(s) to be tuned, manually or heuristically through cross…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jun Shu , Qian Zhao , Keyu Chen , Zongben Xu , Deyu Meng

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

Despite rapid advances in speech recognition, current models remain brittle to superficial perturbations to their inputs. Small amounts of noise can destroy the performance of an otherwise state-of-the-art model. To harden models against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Davis Liang , Zhiheng Huang , Zachary C. Lipton

In the surface defect detection, there are some suspicious regions that cannot be uniquely classified as abnormal or normal. The annotating of suspicious regions is easily affected by factors such as workers' emotional fluctuations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Tongzhi Niu , Bin Li , Kai Li , Yufeng Lin , Yuwei Li , Weifeng Li , Zhenrong Wang

The success of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models significantly depends on the quality of provided annotations. In medical image segmentation, for example, having multiple expert annotations for each data point is common to minimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Asma Ahmed Hashmi , Aigerim Zhumabayeva , Nikita Kotelevskii , Artem Agafonov , Mohammad Yaqub , Maxim Panov , Martin Takáč

Labeled data is a critical resource for training and evaluating machine learning models. However, many real-life datasets are only partially labeled. We propose a semi-supervised machine learning training strategy to improve event detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Florian Dubost , Erin Hong , Nandita Bhaskhar , Siyi Tang , Daniel Rubin , Christopher Lee-Messer

The paradigm of data programming, which uses weak supervision in the form of rules/labelling functions, and semi-supervised learning, which augments small amounts of labelled data with a large unlabelled dataset, have shown great promise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ayush Maheshwari , Oishik Chatterjee , KrishnaTeja Killamsetty , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Rishabh Iyer

In many practical applications of learning algorithms, unlabeled data is cheap and abundant whereas labeled data is expensive. Active learning algorithms developed to achieve better performance with lower cost. Usually Representativeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Hossein Ghafarian , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi

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

Annotating the dataset with high-quality labels is crucial for performance of deep network, but in real world scenarios, the labels are often contaminated by noise. To address this, some methods were proposed to automatically split clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Daehwan Kim , Kwangrok Ryoo , Hansang Cho , Seungryong Kim

Given data with label noise (i.e., incorrect data), deep neural networks would gradually memorize the label noise and impair model performance. To relieve this issue, curriculum learning is proposed to improve model performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tingting Wu , Xiao Ding , Hao Zhang , Jinglong Gao , Li Du , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Recent studies on learning with noisy labels have shown remarkable performance by exploiting a small clean dataset. In particular, model agnostic meta-learning-based label correction methods further improve performance by correcting noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Seong Min Kye , Kwanghee Choi , Joonyoung Yi , Buru Chang

Predictive performance of machine learning models trained with empirical risk minimization (ERM) can degrade considerably under distribution shifts. The presence of spurious correlations in training datasets leads ERM-trained models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Simon Roburin , Charles Corbière , Gilles Puy , Nicolas Thome , Matthieu Aubry , Renaud Marlet , Patrick Pérez

Noisy labels are an unavoidable consequence of labeling processes and detecting them is an important step towards preventing performance degradations in Convolutional Neural Networks. Discarding noisy labels avoids a harmful memorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Learning with noisy labels is a vital topic for practical deep learning as models should be robust to noisy open-world datasets in the wild. The state-of-the-art noisy label learning approach JoCoR fails when faced with a large ratio of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Yuhang Zhang , Weihong Deng , Xingchen Cui , Yunfeng Yin , Hongzhi Shi , Dongchao Wen

Labeling a training set is often expensive and susceptible to errors, making the design of robust loss functions for label noise an important problem. The symmetry condition provides theoretical guarantees for robustness to such noise. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Alexandre Lemire Paquin , Brahim Chaib-Draa , Philippe Giguère