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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…

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In supervised learning, the presence of noise can have a significant impact on decision making. Since many classifiers do not take label noise into account in the derivation of the loss function, including the loss functions of logistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Dawei Dai , Donggen Li , Zhiguo Zhuang

Mislabeled samples are ubiquitous in real-world datasets as rule-based or expert labeling is usually based on incorrect assumptions or subject to biased opinions. Neural networks can "memorize" these mislabeled samples and, as a result,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Katharina Rombach , Gabriel Michau , Olga Fink

Training data plays an essential role in modern applications of machine learning. However, gathering labeled training data is time-consuming. Therefore, labeling is often outsourced to less experienced users, or completely automated. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Alex Bäuerle , Heiko Neumann , Timo Ropinski

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

In deep learning (DL) systems, label noise in training datasets often degrades model performance, as models may learn incorrect patterns from mislabeled data. The area of Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL) has introduced methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gordon Lim , Stefan Larson , Kevin Leach

Supervised learning of deep neural networks heavily relies on large-scale datasets annotated by high-quality labels. In contrast, mislabeled samples can significantly degrade the generalization of models and result in memorizing samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tsung-Ming Tai , Yun-Jie Jhang , Wen-Jyi Hwang

Multi-label classification (MLC) faces challenges from label noise in training data due to annotating diverse semantic labels for each image. Current methods mainly target identifying and correcting label mistakes using trained MLC models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zhixiang Yuan , Kaixin Zhang , Tao Huang

The conventional success of textual classification relies on annotated data, and the new paradigm of pre-trained language models (PLMs) still requires a few labeled data for downstream tasks. However, in real-world applications, label noise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Dan Qiao , Chenchen Dai , Yuyang Ding , Juntao Li , Qiang Chen , Wenliang Chen , Min Zhang

Labels noise refers to errors in training labels caused by cheap data annotation methods, such as web scraping or crowd-sourcing, which can be detrimental to the performance of supervised classifiers. Several methods have been proposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Maha Tufail Agro , Hanan Aldarmaki

Noisy labels damage the performance of deep networks. For robust learning, a prominent two-stage pipeline alternates between eliminating possible incorrect labels and semi-supervised training. However, discarding part of noisy labels could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Mingcai Chen , Hao Cheng , Yuntao Du , Ming Xu , Wenyu Jiang , Chongjun Wang

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

It remains difficult to evaluate machine learning classifiers in the absence of a large, labeled dataset. While labeled data can be prohibitively expensive or impossible to obtain, unlabeled data is plentiful. Here, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Divya Shanmugam , Shuvom Sadhuka , Manish Raghavan , John Guttag , Bonnie Berger , Emma Pierson

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

Deep neural networks are susceptible to label noise. Existing methods to improve robustness, such as meta-learning and regularization, usually require significant change to the network architecture or careful tuning of the optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Li Chen , Ningyuan Huang , Cong Mu , Hayden S. Helm , Kate Lytvynets , Weiwei Yang , Carey E. Priebe

Deep Metric Learning (DML) plays a critical role in various machine learning tasks. However, most existing deep metric learning methods with binary similarity are sensitive to noisy labels, which are widely present in real-world data. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jiexi Yan , Lei Luo , Cheng Deng , Heng Huang

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

Multi-label image classification has generated significant interest in recent years and the performance of such systems often suffers from the not so infrequent occurrence of incorrect or missing labels in the training data. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Zhuolin Jiang , Jan Silovsky , Man-Hung Siu , William Hartmann , Herbert Gish , Sancar Adali

We offer a novel view of AdaBoost in a statistical setting. We propose a Bayesian model for binary classification in which label noise is modeled hierarchically. Using variational inference to optimize a dynamic evidence lower bound, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-09-11 Alexander Lorbert , David M. Blei , Robert E. Schapire , Peter J. Ramadge

With the widespread use of machine learning for classification, it becomes increasingly important to be able to use weaker kinds of supervision for tasks in which it is hard to obtain standard labeled data. One such kind of supervision is…

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