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We investigate the problem of classification in the presence of unknown class-conditional label noise in which the labels observed by the learner have been corrupted with some unknown class dependent probability. In order to obtain finite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Henry W J Reeve , Ata Kaban

Deep neural networks are highly susceptible to overfitting noisy labels, which leads to degraded performance. Existing methods address this issue by employing manually defined criteria, aiming to achieve optimal partitioning in each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenzhen Zhang , Debo Cheng , Guangquan Lu , Bo Zhou , Jiaye Li , Shichao Zhang

Several works in computer vision have demonstrated the effectiveness of active learning for adapting the recognition model when new unlabeled data becomes available. Most of these works consider that labels obtained from the annotator are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sudipta Paul , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Suppose we have a sample of instances paired with binary labels corrupted by arbitrary instance- and label-dependent noise. With sufficiently many such samples, can we optimally classify and rank instances with respect to the noise-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Aditya Krishna Menon , Brendan van Rooyen , Nagarajan Natarajan

Learning with noisy labels (LNL) aims at designing strategies to improve model performance and generalization by mitigating the effects of model overfitting to noisy labels. The key success of LNL lies in identifying as many clean samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Jichang Li , Guanbin Li , Feng Liu , Yizhou Yu

Despite the large progress in supervised learning with neural networks, there are significant challenges in obtaining high-quality, large-scale and accurately labelled datasets. In such a context, how to learn in the presence of noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Chen Feng , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

The "Curse of dimensionality" is prevalent across various data patterns, which increases the risk of model overfitting and leads to a decline in model classification performance. However, few studies have focused on this issue in Partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wanfu Gao , Hanlin Pan , Qingqi Han , Kunpeng Liu

Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL) has attracted significant attention from the research community. Many recent LNL methods rely on the assumption that clean samples tend to have "small loss". However, this assumption always fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 MingCai Chen , Yu Zhao , Bing He , Zongbo Han , Bingzhe Wu , Jianhua Yao

Gamma hadron classification, a central machine learning task in gamma ray astronomy, is conventionally tackled with supervised learning. However, the supervised approach requires annotated training data to be produced in sophisticated and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Lukas Pfahler , Mirko Bunse , Katharina Morik

ConvNets achieve good results when training from clean data, but learning from noisy labels significantly degrades performances and remains challenging. Unlike previous works constrained by many conditions, making them infeasible to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Jiangfan Han , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang

Semi-supervised learning methods are motivated by the availability of large datasets with unlabeled features in addition to labeled data. Unlabeled data is, however, not guaranteed to improve classification performance and has in fact been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-25 Xiuming Liu , Dave Zachariah , Johan Wågberg , Thomas B. Schön

A deep neural network trained on noisy labels is known to quickly lose its power to discriminate clean instances from noisy ones. After the early learning phase has ended, the network memorizes the noisy instances, which leads to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jason Z. Lin , Jelena Bradic

For classification tasks, deep neural networks are prone to overfitting in the presence of label noise. Although existing methods are able to alleviate this problem at low noise levels, they encounter significant performance reduction at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jingyi Xu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Kai Fong Ernest Chong

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

The limited availability of ground truth relevance labels has been a major impediment to the application of supervised methods to ad-hoc retrieval. As a result, unsupervised scoring methods, such as BM25, remain strong competitors to deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Dany Haddad , Joydeep Ghosh

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

In low-resource settings, the performance of supervised labeling models can be improved with automatically annotated or distantly supervised data, which is cheap to create but often noisy. Previous works have shown that significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Lukas Lange , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

Deep neural networks have shown impressive performance in supervised learning, enabled by their ability to fit well to the provided training data. However, their performance is largely dependent on the quality of the training data and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Abhishek Kumar , Ehsan Amid

Supervised learning depends on annotated examples, which are taken to be the \emph{ground truth}. But these labels often come from noisy crowdsourcing platforms, like Amazon Mechanical Turk. Practitioners typically collect multiple labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ashish Khetan , Zachary C. Lipton , Anima Anandkumar

The recent success of deep neural networks is powered in part by large-scale well-labeled training data. However, it is a daunting task to laboriously annotate an ImageNet-like dateset. On the contrary, it is fairly convenient, fast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yifan Ding , Liqiang Wang , Deliang Fan , Boqing Gong