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Deep Neural Networks are well known for efficiently fitting training data, yet experiencing poor generalization capabilities whenever some kind of bias dominates over the actual task labels, resulting in models learning "shortcuts". In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Pietro Morerio , Ruggero Ragonesi , Vittorio Murino

A recently-proposed technique called self-adaptive training augments modern neural networks by allowing them to adjust training labels on the fly, to avoid overfitting to samples that may be mislabeled or otherwise non-representative. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Daniel Chiu , Franklyn Wang , Scott Duke Kominers

In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models with label noise. Existing approaches depending on human supervision are generally not scalable as manually identifying correct or incorrect labels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Kuang-Huei Lee , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Linjun Yang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be susceptible to memorization or overfitting in the presence of noisily-labelled data. For the problem of robust learning under such noisy data, several algorithms have been proposed. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Deep Patel , P. S. Sastry

Collecting large-scale data with clean labels for supervised training of neural networks is practically challenging. Although noisy labels are usually cheap to acquire, existing methods suffer a lot from label noise. This paper targets at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zizhao Zhang , Han Zhang , Sercan O. Arik , Honglak Lee , Tomas Pfister

Labelling of data for supervised learning can be costly and time-consuming and the risk of incorporating label noise in large data sets is imminent. When training a flexible discriminative model using a strictly proper loss, such noise will…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-13 Amanda Olmin , Fredrik Lindsten

ImageNet has been arguably the most popular image classification benchmark, but it is also the one with a significant level of label noise. Recent studies have shown that many samples contain multiple classes, despite being assumed to be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Sangdoo Yun , Seong Joon Oh , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han , Junsuk Choe , Sanghyuk Chun

Most meta-learning methods assume that the (very small) context set used to establish a new task at test time is passively provided. In some settings, however, it is feasible to actively select which points to label; the potential gain from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Wonho Bae , Jing Wang , Danica J. Sutherland

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in numerous domains with help from large amounts of big data. However, the quality of data labels is a concern because of the lack of high-quality labels in many real-world scenarios. As noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Hwanjun Song , Minseok Kim , Dongmin Park , Yooju Shin , Jae-Gil Lee

Semi-supervised learning, i.e. jointly learning from labeled and unlabeled samples, is an active research topic due to its key role on relaxing human supervision. In the context of image classification, recent advances to learn from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Eric Arazo , Diego Ortego , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

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

Large training datasets almost always contain examples with inaccurate or incorrect labels. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) tend to overfit training label noise, resulting in poorer model performance in practice. To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chen Gong , Kong Bin , Eric J. Seibel , Xin Wang , Youbing Yin , Qi Song

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

The generalization and learning speed of a multi-class neural network can often be significantly improved by using soft targets that are a weighted average of the hard targets and the uniform distribution over labels. Smoothing the labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Rafael Müller , Simon Kornblith , Geoffrey Hinton

Semantic noise in image classification datasets, where visually similar categories are frequently mislabeled, poses a significant challenge to conventional supervised learning approaches. In this paper, we explore the potential of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yingxuan Li , Jiafeng Mao , Yusuke Matsui

High-quality data is a key aspect of modern machine learning. However, labels generated by humans suffer from issues like label noise and class ambiguities. We raise the question of whether hard labels are sufficient to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Vasco Grossmann , Lars Schmarje , Reinhard Koch

Leveraging weak or noisy supervision for building effective machine learning models has long been an important research problem. Its importance has further increased recently due to the growing need for large-scale datasets to train deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Guoqing Zheng , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Susan Dumais

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

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

Label smoothing is widely used in deep neural networks for multi-class classification. While it enhances model generalization and reduces overconfidence by aiming to lower the probability for the predicted class, it distorts the predicted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mohamed Maher , Meelis Kull