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Deep neural networks tend to memorize noisy labels, severely degrading their generalization performance. Although Mixup has demonstrated effectiveness in improving generalization and robustness, existing Mixup-based methods typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Qiuhao Liu , Ling Li , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan , Zhaowei Zhu , Jiaheng Wei

We introduce ANTIDOTE, a new class of objectives for learning under noisy labels which are defined in terms of a relaxation over an information-divergence neighborhood. Using convex duality, we provide a reformulation as an adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jeremiah Birrell , Reza Ebrahimi

Learning with noisy labels has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, where the mainstream approaches are in pointwise manners. Meanwhile, pairwise manners have shown great potential in supervised metric learning and unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Songhua Wu , Xiaobo Xia , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Nannan Wang , Haifeng Liu , Gang Niu

Most existing distance metric learning methods assume perfect side information that is usually given in pairwise or triplet constraints. Instead, in many real-world applications, the constraints are derived from side information, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Kaizhu Huang , Rong Jin , Zenglin Xu , Cheng-Lin Liu

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

Noisy training labels can hurt model performance. Most approaches that aim to address label noise assume label noise is independent from the input features. In practice, however, label noise is often feature or \textit{instance-dependent},…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Donna Tjandra , Jenna Wiens

Meta-learning is an effective method to handle imbalanced and noisy-label learning, but it depends on a validation set containing randomly selected, manually labelled and balanced distributed samples. The random selection and manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Dung Anh Hoang , Cuong Nguyen , Belagiannis Vasileios , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

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

Robust loss functions are essential for training deep neural networks with better generalization power in the presence of noisy labels. Symmetric loss functions are confirmed to be robust to label noise. However, the symmetric condition is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xiong Zhou , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xin Gao , Xiangyang Ji

The recent success of deep learning is mostly due to the availability of big datasets with clean annotations. However, gathering a cleanly annotated dataset is not always feasible due to practical challenges. As a result, label noise is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Görkem Algan , İlkay Ulusoy

It is crucial to distinguish mislabeled samples for dealing with noisy labels. Previous methods such as Coteaching and JoCoR introduce two different networks to select clean samples out of the noisy ones and only use these clean ones to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Rumeng Yi , Yaping Huang

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

A similarity label indicates whether two instances belong to the same class while a class label shows the class of the instance. Without class labels, a multi-class classifier could be learned from similarity-labeled pairwise data by meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Songhua Wu , Xiaobo Xia , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Nannan Wang , Haifeng Liu , Gang Niu

Collecting large-scale datasets is crucial for training deep models, annotating the data, however, inevitably yields noisy labels, which poses challenges to deep learning algorithms. Previous efforts tend to mitigate this problem via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

Noisy labels are an unavoidable consequence of labeling processes and detecting them is an important step towards preventing performance degradations in Convolutional Neural Networks. Discarding noisy labels avoids a harmful memorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

The emergence of vision-language foundation models, such as CLIP, has revolutionized image-text representation, enabling a broad range of applications via prompt learning. Despite its promise, real-world datasets often contain noisy labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Bikang Pan , Qun Li , Xiaoying Tang , Wei Huang , Zhen Fang , Feng Liu , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi

Learning from noisy labels (LNL) aims to train high-performance deep models using noisy datasets. Meta learning based label correction methods have demonstrated remarkable performance in LNL by designing various meta label rectification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hanxuan Wang , Na Lu , Xueying Zhao , Yuxuan Yan , Kaipeng Ma , Kwoh Chee Keong , Gustavo Carneiro

Deep learning with noisy labels is challenging as deep neural networks have the high capacity to memorize the noisy labels. In this paper, we propose a learning algorithm called Co-matching, which balances the consistency and divergence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yangdi Lu , Yang Bo , Wenbo He

This paper presents a novel method for embedding transfer, a task of transferring knowledge of a learned embedding model to another. Our method exploits pairwise similarities between samples in the source embedding space as the knowledge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungyeon Kim , Dongwon Kim , Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak

Training neural network classifiers on datasets with label noise poses a risk of overfitting them to the noisy labels. To address this issue, researchers have explored alternative loss functions that aim to be more robust. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 William Toner , Amos Storkey