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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

The capacity of deep learning models is often large enough to both learn the underlying statistical signal and overfit to noise in the training set. This noise memorization can be harmful especially for data with a low signal-to-noise ratio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wei Huang , Andi Han , Yujin Song , Yilan Chen , Denny Wu , Difan Zou , Taiji Suzuki

Overconfidence has been shown to impair generalization and calibration of a neural network. Previous studies remedy this issue by adding a regularization term to a loss function, preventing a model from making a peaked distribution. Label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Dongkyu Lee , Ka Chun Cheung , Nevin L. Zhang

Label-noise learning (LNL) aims to increase the model's generalization given training data with noisy labels. To facilitate practical LNL algorithms, researchers have proposed different label noise types, ranging from class-conditional to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jingfeng Zhang , Bo Song , Haohan Wang , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu , Lei Liu , Masashi Sugiyama

Classical machine learning implicitly assumes that labels of the training data are sampled from a clean distribution, which can be too restrictive for real-world scenarios. However, statistical-learning-based methods may not train deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Bo Han , Quanming Yao , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Ivor W. Tsang , James T. Kwok , Masashi Sugiyama

Noisy labels can impair the performance of deep neural networks. To tackle this problem, in this paper, we propose a new method for filtering label noise. Unlike most existing methods relying on the posterior probability of a noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Pengxiang Wu , Songzhu Zheng , Mayank Goswami , Dimitris Metaxas , Chao Chen

This work aims to empirically clarify a recently discovered perspective that label smoothing is incompatible with knowledge distillation. We begin by introducing the motivation behind on how this incompatibility is raised, i.e., label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Dejia Xu , Zitian Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Marios Savvides

In learning tasks with label noise, improving model robustness against overfitting is a pivotal challenge because the model eventually memorizes labels, including the noisy ones. Identifying the samples with noisy labels and preventing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani , Reza Nasirigerdeh , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

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

Incorrect labels in training data occur when human annotators make mistakes or when the data is generated via weak or distant supervision. It has been shown that complex noise-handling techniques - by modeling, cleaning or filtering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Dawei Zhu , Michael A. Hedderich , Fangzhou Zhai , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Dietrich Klakow

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

Deep neural networks trained with standard cross-entropy loss are more prone to memorize noisy labels, which degrades their performance. Negative learning using complementary labels is more robust when noisy labels intervene but with an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chen-Chen Zong , Zheng-Tao Cao , Hong-Tao Guo , Yun Du , Ming-Kun Xie , Shao-Yuan Li , Sheng-Jun Huang

Many time series classification tasks, where labels vary over time, are affected by label noise that also varies over time. Such noise can cause label quality to improve, worsen, or periodically change over time. We first propose and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sujay Nagaraj , Walter Gerych , Sana Tonekaboni , Anna Goldenberg , Berk Ustun , Thomas Hartvigsen

Collecting labeled data to train deep neural networks is costly and even impractical for many tasks. Thus, research effort has been focused in automatically curated datasets or unsupervised and weakly supervised learning. The common problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Nam Le , Jean-Marc Odobez

Label noise in training data can significantly degrade a model's generalization performance for supervised learning tasks. Here we focus on the problem that noisy labels are primarily mislabeled samples, which tend to be concentrated near…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hao-Chiang Shao , Hsin-Chieh Wang , Weng-Tai Su , Chia-Wen Lin

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

Because large, human-annotated datasets suffer from labeling errors, it is crucial to be able to train deep neural networks in the presence of label noise. While training image classification models with label noise have received much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ishan Jindal , Daniel Pressel , Brian Lester , Matthew Nokleby

The availability of a large quantity of labelled training data is crucial for the training of modern object detectors. Hand labelling training data is time consuming and expensive while automatic labelling methods inevitably add unwanted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Simon Chadwick , Paul Newman

To discover intrinsic inter-class transition probabilities underlying data, learning with noise transition has become an important approach for robust deep learning on corrupted labels. Prior methods attempt to achieve such transition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jun Shu , Qian Zhao , Zongben Xu , Deyu Meng

We approach the problem of improving robustness of deep learning algorithms in the presence of label noise. Building upon existing label correction and co-teaching methods, we propose a novel training procedure to mitigate the memorization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Jihye Kim , Aristide Baratin , Yan Zhang , Simon Lacoste-Julien