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Label noise in real-world datasets encodes wrong correlation patterns and impairs the generalization of deep neural networks (DNNs). It is critical to find efficient ways to detect corrupted patterns. Current methods primarily focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zhaowei Zhu , Zihao Dong , Yang Liu

Data lies at the core of modern deep learning. The impressive performance of supervised learning is built upon a base of massive accurately labeled data. However, in some real-world applications, accurate labeling might not be viable;…

Noisy labels are both inevitable and problematic in machine learning methods, as they negatively impact models' generalization ability by causing overfitting. In the context of learning with noise, the transition matrix plays a crucial role…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jiahui Li , Tai-Wei Chang , Kun Kuang , Ximing Li , Long Chen , Jun Zhou

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of computer vision tasks, where massive labeled images are routinely required for model optimization. Yet, the data collected from the open world are unavoidably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Peng Cui , Yang Yue , Zhijie Deng , Jun Zhu

Deep learning with noisy labels presents significant challenges. In this work, we theoretically characterize the role of label noise from a feature learning perspective. Specifically, we consider a signal-noise data distribution, where each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Andi Han , Wei Huang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Gang Niu , Wuyang Chen , Junchi Yan , Akiko Takeda , Taiji Suzuki

We propose a simulation framework for generating instance-dependent noisy labels via a pseudo-labeling paradigm. We show that the distribution of the synthetic noisy labels generated with our framework is closer to human labels compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Keren Gu , Xander Masotto , Vandana Bachani , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Jack Nikodem , Dong Yin

Label noise is ubiquitous in various machine learning scenarios such as self-labeling with model predictions and erroneous data annotation. Many existing approaches are based on heuristics such as sample losses, which might not be flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhihao Wang , Zongyu Lin , Peiqi Liu , Guidong ZHeng , Junjie Wen , Xianxin Chen , Yujun Chen , Zhilin Yang

Large-scale datasets possessing clean label annotations are crucial for training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, labeling large-scale data can be very costly and error-prone, and even high-quality datasets are likely to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Yisen Wang , Weiyang Liu , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey , Hongyuan Zha , Le Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Because deep learning is vulnerable to noisy labels, sample selection techniques, which train networks with only clean labeled data, have attracted a great attention. However, if the labels are dominantly corrupted by few classes, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Kyeongbo Kong , Junggi Lee , Youngchul Kwak , Young-Rae Cho , Seong-Eun Kim , Woo-Jin Song

The label noise transition matrix, characterizing the probabilities of a training instance being wrongly annotated, is crucial to designing popular solutions to learning with noisy labels. Existing works heavily rely on finding "anchor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zhaowei Zhu , Yiwen Song , Yang Liu

Noisy labels are ubiquitous in real-world datasets, which poses a challenge for robustly training deep neural networks (DNNs) as DNNs usually have the high capacity to memorize the noisy labels. In this paper, we find that the test accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Pengfei Chen , Benben Liao , Guangyong Chen , Shengyu Zhang

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained remarkable achievement in computer vision tasks, and the success of DNNs often depends greatly on the richness of data. However, the acquisition process of data and high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Mengting Li , Chuang Zhu

Training deep neural network (DNN) with noisy labels is practically challenging since inaccurate labels severely degrade the generalization ability of DNN. Previous efforts tend to handle part or full data in a unified denoising flow via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Yuanpeng Tu , Jinlong Peng , Yabiao Wang , Cunlin Wu , Yang Xiao , Cairong Zhao

This paper aims to provide understandings for the effect of an over-parameterized model, e.g. a deep neural network, memorizing instance-dependent noisy labels. We first quantify the harms caused by memorizing noisy instances, and show the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yang Liu

Label noise is ubiquitous in real-world scenarios, posing a practical challenge to supervised models due to its effect in hurting the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Existing methods primarily employ the sample selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mengmeng Sheng , Zeren Sun , Tao Chen , Shuchao Pang , Yucheng Wang , Yazhou Yao

Existing research on learning with noisy labels predominantly focuses on synthetic label noise. Although synthetic noise possesses well-defined structural properties, it often fails to accurately replicate real-world noise patterns. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Hongfei Huang , Tingting Liang , Xixi Sun , Zikang Jin , Yuyu Yin

Label noise is frequently observed in real-world large-scale datasets. The noise is introduced due to a variety of reasons; it is heterogeneous and feature-dependent. Most existing approaches to handling noisy labels fall into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yikai Zhang , Songzhu Zheng , Pengxiang Wu , Mayank Goswami , Chao Chen

Most studies on learning from noisy labels rely on unrealistic models of i.i.d. label noise, such as class-conditional transition matrices. More recent work on instance-dependent noise models are more realistic, but assume a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Glenn Dawson , Robi Polikar

Instance-dependent label noise is realistic but rather challenging, where the label-corruption process depends on instances directly. It causes a severe distribution shift between the distributions of training and test data, which impairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Manyi Zhang , Yuxin Ren , Zihao Wang , Chun Yuan