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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in a wide variety of medical image analysis tasks. However, these achievements indispensably rely on the accurately-annotated datasets. If with the noisy-labeled images, the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Cheng Xue , Qi Dou , Xueying Shi , Hao Chen , Pheng Ann Heng

Label smoothing loss is a widely adopted technique to mitigate overfitting in deep neural networks. This paper studies label smoothing from the perspective of Neural Collapse (NC), a powerful empirical and theoretical framework which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Li Guo , George Andriopoulos , Zifan Zhao , Shuyang Ling , Zixuan Dong , Keith Ross

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

The label noise transition matrix $T$, reflecting the probabilities that true labels flip into noisy ones, is of vital importance to model label noise and design statistically consistent classifiers. The traditional transition matrix is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Xiaobo Xia , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Nannan Wang , Jiankang Deng , Jiatong Li , Yinian Mao

We motivate weakly supervised learning as an effective learning paradigm for problems where curating perfectly annotated datasets is expensive and may require domain expertise such as fine-grained classification. We focus on Partial Label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Darshana Saravanan , Naresh Manwani , Vineet Gandhi

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

Training deep neural networks(DNN) with noisy labels is challenging since DNN can easily memorize inaccurate labels, leading to poor generalization ability. Recently, the meta-learning based label correction strategy is widely adopted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

Training modern neural networks is an inherently noisy process that can lead to high \emph{prediction churn} -- disagreements between re-trainings of the same model due to factors such as randomization in the parameter initialization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Dara Bahri , Heinrich Jiang

Recently deep neural networks have been successfully used for various classification tasks, especially for problems with massive perfectly labeled training data. However, it is often costly to have large-scale credible labels in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Mingxiao An , Yongzhou Chen , Qi Liu , Chuanren Liu , Guangyi Lv , Fangzhao Wu , Jianhui Ma

Introducing training-time augmentations is a key technique to enhance generalization and prepare deep neural networks against test-time corruptions. Inspired by the success of generative diffusion models, we propose a novel approach of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Markus Heinonen , Ba-Hien Tran , Michael Kampffmeyer , Maurizio Filippone

Label smoothing is commonly used in training deep learning models, wherein one-hot training labels are mixed with uniform label vectors. Empirically, smoothing has been shown to improve both predictive performance and model calibration. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Michal Lukasik , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Aditya Krishna Menon , Sanjiv Kumar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are capable of perfectly fitting the training data, including memorizing noisy data. It is commonly believed that memorization hurts generalization. Therefore, many recent works propose mitigation strategies to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-28 Carey E. Priebe , Ningyuan Huang , Soledad Villar , Cong Mu , Li Chen

Previous research has indicated that deep neural network based models for time series classification (TSC) tasks are prone to overfitting. This issue can be mitigated by employing strategies that prevent the model from becoming overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Hengyi Ma , Weitong Chen

Deep neural networks have proven to be highly effective when large amounts of data with clean labels are available. However, their performance degrades when training data contains noisy labels, leading to poor generalization on the test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Fahimeh Fooladgar , Minh Nguyen Nhat To , Parvin Mousavi , Purang Abolmaesumi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to over-fit a dataset when being trained with noisy labels for a long enough time. To overcome this problem, we present a simple and effective method self-ensemble label filtering (SELF) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Duc Tam Nguyen , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Thi Phuong Nhung Ngo , Thi Hoai Phuong Nguyen , Laura Beggel , Thomas Brox

Computer-aided diagnosis systems must make critical decisions from medical images that are often noisy, ambiguous, or conflicting, yet today's models are trained on overly simplistic labels that ignore diagnostic uncertainty. One-hot labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ang Nan Gu , Michael Tsang , Hooman Vaseli , Purang Abolmaesumi , Teresa Tsang

Real-world data inevitably contains noisy labels, which induce the poor generalization of deep neural networks. It is known that the network typically begins to rapidly memorize false-labeled samples after a certain point of training. Thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Hwanjun Song , Minseok Kim , Dongmin Park , Yooju Shin , Jae-Gil Lee

Label Smoothing (LS) is an effective regularizer to improve the generalization of state-of-the-art deep models. For each training sample the LS strategy smooths the one-hot encoded training signal by distributing its distribution mass over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Hongyu Guo

Unregularized deep neural networks (DNNs) can be easily overfit with a limited sample size. We argue that this is mostly due to the disriminative nature of DNNs which directly model the conditional probability (or score) of labels given the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Shuangfei Zhai , Zhongfei Zhang

The memorization effect of deep neural networks (DNNs) plays a pivotal role in recent label noise learning methods. To exploit this effect, the model prediction-based methods have been widely adopted, which aim to exploit the outputs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chuang Zhang , Li Shen , Jian Yang , Chen Gong