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Noisy labels are a pervasive challenge in medical image classification, where annotation errors arise from inter-observer variability and diagnostic ambiguity. Although several noise-robust learning methods have been proposed, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Maycon R. S. Pereira , Filipe R. Cordeiro

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

Image classification systems recently made a giant leap with the advancement of deep neural networks. However, these systems require an excessive amount of labeled data to be adequately trained. Gathering a correctly annotated dataset is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for node classification on graphs. The vast majority of existing works assume that genuine node labels are always provided for training. However, there has been very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Yayong Li , Jie yin , Ling Chen

Learning with noisy labels has aroused much research interest since data annotations, especially for large-scale datasets, may be inevitably imperfect. Recent approaches resort to a semi-supervised learning problem by dividing training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Kai Wang , Xiangyu Peng , Shuo Yang , Jianfei Yang , Zheng Zhu , Xinchao Wang , Yang You

In many applications of classifier learning, training data suffers from label noise. Deep networks are learned using huge training data where the problem of noisy labels is particularly relevant. The current techniques proposed for learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Aritra Ghosh , Himanshu Kumar , P. S. Sastry

Video anomaly detection under weak labels is formulated as a typical multiple-instance learning problem in previous works. In this paper, we provide a new perspective, i.e., a supervised learning task under noisy labels. In such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Jia-Xing Zhong , Nannan Li , Weijie Kong , Shan Liu , Thomas H. Li , Ge Li

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

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

Training neural network classifiers on datasets with label noise poses a risk of overfitting them to the noisy labels. To address this issue, researchers have explored alternative loss functions that aim to be more robust. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 William Toner , Amos Storkey

Deep neural networks have established as a powerful tool for large scale supervised classification tasks. The state-of-the-art performances of deep neural networks are conditioned to the availability of large number of accurately labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Bharath Bhushan Damodaran , Rémi Flamary , Viven Seguy , Nicolas Courty

Machine learning models are routinely used to support decisions that affect individuals -- be it to screen a patient for a serious illness or to gauge their response to treatment. In these tasks, we are limited to learning models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sujay Nagaraj , Yang Liu , Flavio P. Calmon , Berk Ustun

Manual labelling of training examples is common practice in supervised learning. When the labelling task is of non-trivial difficulty, the supplied labels may not be equal to the ground-truth labels, and label noise is introduced into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-08 Daniel Ahfock , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Machine learning classifiers have been demonstrated, both empirically and theoretically, to be robust to label noise under certain conditions -- notably the typical assumption is that label noise is independent of the features given the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Diane Oyen , Michal Kucer , Nick Hengartner , Har Simrat Singh

Recent advancements in deep learning have proven highly effective in medical image classification, notably within histopathology. However, noisy labels represent a critical challenge in histopathology image classification, where accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Lucas Dedieu , Nicolas Nerrienet , Adrien Nivaggioli , Clara Simmat , Marceau Clavel , Arnaud Gauthier , Stéphane Sockeel , Rémy Peyret

Robustness to label noise is a critical property for weakly-supervised classifiers trained on massive datasets. Robustness to label noise is a critical property for weakly-supervised classifiers trained on massive datasets. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Amirmasoud Ghiassi , Taraneh Younesian , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

The recent success of deep learning is mostly due to the availability of big datasets with clean annotations. However, gathering a cleanly annotated dataset is not always feasible due to practical challenges. As a result, label noise is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Görkem Algan , İlkay Ulusoy

Imperfect labels limit the quality of predictions learned by deep neural networks. This is particularly relevant in medical image segmentation, where reference annotations are difficult to collect and vary significantly even across expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Eugene Vorontsov , Samuel Kadoury

Deep neural networks are prone to overfitting noisy labels, resulting in poor generalization performance. To overcome this problem, we present a simple and effective method self-ensemble label correction (SELC) to progressively correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yangdi Lu , Wenbo He

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