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Noise in data appears to be inevitable in most real-world machine learning applications and would cause severe overfitting problems. Not only can data features contain noise, but labels are also prone to be noisy due to human input. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Weipeng Huang , Qin Li , Yang Xiao , Cheng Qiao , Tie Cai , Junwei Liang , Neil J. Hurley , Guangyuan Piao

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

Label noise is emerging as a pressing issue in sound event classification. This arises as we move towards larger datasets that are difficult to annotate manually, but it is even more severe if datasets are collected automatically from…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eduardo Fonseca , Frederic Font , Xavier Serra

Distant and weak supervision allow to obtain large amounts of labeled training data quickly and cheaply, but these automatic annotations tend to contain a high amount of errors. A popular technique to overcome the negative effects of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Michael A. Hedderich , Dawei Zhu , Dietrich Klakow

Deep neural network models are robust to a limited amount of label noise, but their ability to memorise noisy labels in high noise rate problems is still an open issue. The most competitive noisy-label learning algorithms rely on a 2-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Filipe R. Cordeiro , Ragav Sachdeva , Vasileios Belagiannis , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

Imperfect labels are ubiquitous in real-world datasets and seriously harm the model performance. Several recent effective methods for handling noisy labels have two key steps: 1) dividing samples into cleanly labeled and wrongly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Wenkai Chen , Chuang Zhu , Yi Chen , Mengting Li , Tiejun Huang

Label noise may affect the generalization of classifiers, and the effective learning of main patterns from samples with noisy labels is an important challenge. Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks tend to prioritize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Yi Sun , Yan Tian , Yiping Xu , Jianxiang Li

Label noise refers to incorrect labels in a dataset caused by human errors or collection defects, which is common in real-world applications and can significantly reduce the accuracy of models. This report explores how to estimate noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haixu Liu , Zerui Tao , Naihui Zhang , Sixing Liu

Current state-of-the-art deep learning systems for visual object recognition and detection use purely supervised training with regularization such as dropout to avoid overfitting. The performance depends critically on the amount of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Scott Reed , Honglak Lee , Dragomir Anguelov , Christian Szegedy , Dumitru Erhan , Andrew Rabinovich

Due to the over-emphasize of the quantity of data, the data quality has often been overlooked. However, not all training data points contribute equally to learning. In particular, if mislabeled, it might actively damage the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Vaibhav Pulastya , Gaurav Nuti , Yash Kumar Atri , Tanmoy Chakraborty

This study explores the robustness of label noise classifiers, aiming to enhance model resilience against noisy data in complex real-world scenarios. Label noise in supervised learning, characterized by erroneous or imprecise labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Cheng Zeng , Yixuan Xu , Jiaqi Tian

Noisy labeled data represent a rich source of information that often are easily accessible and cheap to obtain, but label noise might also have many negative consequences if not accounted for. How to fully utilize noisy labels has been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-21 Karl Øyvind Mikalsen , Cristina Soguero-Ruiz , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Robert Jenssen

Label noise detection has been widely studied in Machine Learning because of its importance in improving training data quality. Satisfactory noise detection has been achieved by adopting ensembles of classifiers. In this approach, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Kecia G. Moura , Ricardo B. C. Prudêncio , George D. C. Cavalcanti

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 learning models rely heavily on large volumes of labeled data to achieve high performance. However, real-world datasets often contain noisy labels due to human error, ambiguity, or resource constraints during the annotation process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Gouranga Bala , Anuj Gupta , Subrat Kumar Behera , Amit Sethi

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

It is a strong prerequisite to access source data freely in many existing unsupervised domain adaptation approaches. However, source data is agnostic in many practical scenarios due to the constraints of expensive data transmission and data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Weijie Chen , Luojun Lin , Shicai Yang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , Yueting Zhuang , Wenqi Ren

Large datasets often have unreliable labels-such as those obtained from Amazon's Mechanical Turk or social media platforms-and classifiers trained on mislabeled datasets often exhibit poor performance. We present a simple, effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Ishan Jindal , Matthew Nokleby , Xuewen Chen

Despite being robust to small amounts of label noise, convolutional neural networks trained with stochastic gradient methods have been shown to easily fit random labels. When there are a mixture of correct and mislabelled targets, networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Eric Arazo , Diego Ortego , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Although deep face recognition benefits significantly from large-scale training data, a current bottleneck is the labelling cost. A feasible solution to this problem is semi-supervised learning, exploiting a small portion of labelled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yuchi Liu , Hailin Shi , Hang Du , Rui Zhu , Jun Wang , Liang Zheng , Tao Mei