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Label smoothing is a widely studied regularization technique in machine learning. However, its potential for node classification in graph-structured data, spanning homophilic to heterophilic graphs, remains largely unexplored. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jaeseung Heo , Moonjeong Park , Dongwoo Kim

Label smoothing (LS) adopts smoothed targets in classification tasks. For example, in binary classification, instead of the one-hot target $(1,0)^\top$ used in conventional logistic regression (LR), LR with LS (LSLR) uses the smoothed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-16 Ryoya Yamasaki , Toshiyuki Tanaka

We systematically explore regularizing neural networks by penalizing low entropy output distributions. We show that penalizing low entropy output distributions, which has been shown to improve exploration in reinforcement learning, acts as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Gabriel Pereyra , George Tucker , Jan Chorowski , Łukasz Kaiser , Geoffrey Hinton

We address the problem of network calibration adjusting miscalibrated confidences of deep neural networks. Many approaches to network calibration adopt a regularization-based method that exploits a regularization term to smooth the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Hyekang Park , Jongyoun Noh , Youngmin Oh , Donghyeon Baek , Bumsub Ham

Consistency regularization on label predictions becomes a fundamental technique in semi-supervised learning, but it still requires a large number of training iterations for high performance. In this study, we analyze that the consistency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Doyup Lee , Sungwoong Kim , Ildoo Kim , Yeongjae Cheon , Minsu Cho , Wook-Shin Han

Label smoothing is widely used in deep neural networks for multi-class classification. While it enhances model generalization and reduces overconfidence by aiming to lower the probability for the predicted class, it distorts the predicted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mohamed Maher , Meelis Kull

Graph neural networks (GNNs), which learn the node representations by recursively aggregating information from its neighbors, have become a predominant computational tool in many domains. To handle large-scale graphs, most of the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kaixiong Zhou , Ninghao Liu , Fan Yang , Zirui Liu , Rui Chen , Li Li , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

In recent years, research on learning with noisy labels has focused on devising novel algorithms that can achieve robustness to noisy training labels while generalizing to clean data. These algorithms often incorporate sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Hui Kang , Sheng Liu , Huaxi Huang , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu

We study Label Smoothing (LS), a widely used regularization technique, in the context of neural learning to rank (L2R) models. LS combines the ground-truth labels with a uniform distribution, encouraging the model to be less confident in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Gustavo Penha , Claudia Hauff

Recent studies have shown that regularization techniques using soft labels, e.g., label smoothing, Mixup, and CutMix, not only enhance image classification accuracy but also mitigate miscalibration due to overconfident predictions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jonghyun Park , Juyeop Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

Deep learning models, especially convolutional neural networks, have achieved impressive results in medical image classification. However, these models often produce overconfident predictions, which can undermine their reliability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kushan Choudhury , Shubhrodeep Roy , Ankur Chanda , Shubhajit Biswas , Somenath Kuiry

Prior knowledge and symbolic rules in machine learning are often expressed in the form of label constraints, especially in structured prediction problems. In this work, we compare two common strategies for encoding label constraints in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kaifu Wang , Hangfeng He , Tin D. Nguyen , Piyush Kumar , Dan Roth

Generating confidence calibrated outputs is of utmost importance for the applications of deep neural networks in safety-critical decision-making systems. The output of a neural network is a probability distribution where the scores are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Chihuang Liu , Joseph JaJa

Machine learning algorithms are known to be susceptible to data poisoning attacks, where an adversary manipulates the training data to degrade performance of the resulting classifier. In this work, we present a unifying view of randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Elan Rosenfeld , Ezra Winston , Pradeep Ravikumar , J. Zico Kolter

Label smoothing -- using softened labels instead of hard ones -- is a widely adopted regularization method for deep learning, showing diverse benefits such as enhanced generalization and calibration. Its implications for preserving model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lukas Struppek , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

The task of image segmentation is inherently noisy due to ambiguities regarding the exact location of boundaries between anatomical structures. We argue that this information can be extracted from the expert annotations at no extra cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mobarakol Islam , Ben Glocker

We propose Regularized Learning under Label shifts (RLLS), a principled and a practical domain-adaptation algorithm to correct for shifts in the label distribution between a source and a target domain. We first estimate importance weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anqi Liu , Fanny Yang , Animashree Anandkumar

Over-parameterized deep neural networks trained by simple first-order methods are known to be able to fit any labeling of data. Such over-fitting ability hinders generalization when mislabeled training examples are present. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Wei Hu , Zhiyuan Li , Dingli Yu

Training a deep neural network with a small amount of data is a challenging problem as it is vulnerable to overfitting. However, one of the practical difficulties that we often face is to collect many samples. Transfer learning is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Yunho Jeon , Yongseok Choi , Jaesun Park , Subin Yi , Dongyeon Cho , Jiwon Kim

Despite the great success of state-of-the-art deep neural networks, several studies have reported models to be over-confident in predictions, indicating miscalibration. Label Smoothing has been proposed as a solution to the over-confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Shuang Ao , Stefan Rueger , Advaith Siddharthan