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Label noise and class imbalance commonly coexist in real-world data. Previous works for robust learning, however, usually address either one type of the data biases and underperform when facing them both. To mitigate this gap, this work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Shenwang Jiang , Jianan Li , Jizhou Zhang , Ying Wang , Tingfa Xu

Supervised neural networks, which first map an input $x$ to a single representation $z$, and then map $z$ to the output label $y$, have achieved remarkable success in a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Despite their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jiawei Wu , Xiaoya Li , Xiang Ao , Yuxian Meng , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

We continue the study of statistical/computational tradeoffs in learning robust classifiers, following the recent work of Bubeck, Lee, Price and Razenshteyn who showed examples of classification tasks where (a) an efficient robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Akshay Degwekar , Preetum Nakkiran , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Deep learning models are being increasingly adopted in wide array of scientific domains, especially to handle high-dimensionality and volume of the scientific data. However, these models tend to be brittle due to their complexity and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 A. Ćiprijanović , D. Kafkes , G. N. Perdue , K. Pedro , G. Snyder , F. J. Sánchez , S. Madireddy , S. M. Wild , B. Nord

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

The real-world data is often susceptible to label noise, which might constrict the effectiveness of the existing state of the art algorithms for ordinal regression. Existing works on ordinal regression do not take label noise into account.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Bhanu Garg , Naresh Manwani

Robustness and generalization ability of machine learning models are of utmost importance in various application domains. There is a wide interest in efficient ways to analyze those properties. One important direction is to analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Khoat Than , Dat Phan , Giang Vu

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) play an important role as an emerging technology in the rapidly growing field of quantum machine learning. While their empirical success is evident, the theoretical explorations of QNNs, particularly their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jiaqi Yang , Wei Xie , Xiaohua Xu

Learning from Preferences in Reinforcement Learning (PbRL) has gained attention recently, as it serves as a natural fit for complicated tasks where the reward function is not easily available. However, preferences often come with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuxuan Li , Harshith Reddy Kethireddy , Srijita Das

We present a Kalman smoothing framework based on modeling errors using the heavy tailed Student's t distribution, along with algorithms, convergence theory, open-source general implementation, and several important applications. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , James V. Burke , Gianluigi Pillonetto

Deep neural networks (DNNs) experience significant performance degradation when processing noisy labels, primarily due to overfitting on mislabeled data. Current mainstream approaches attempt to mitigate this issue by passively filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ningkang Peng , Jingyang Mao , Xiaoqian Peng , Peirong Ma , Xichen Yang , Weiguang Qu , Yanhui Gu

We present a "learning to learn" approach for automatically constructing white-box classification loss functions that are robust to label noise in the training data. We parameterize a flexible family of loss functions using Taylor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Boyan Gao , Henry Gouk , Timothy M. Hospedales

This paper proposes a general decentralized framework for quantum kernel learning (QKL). It has robustness against quantum noise and can also be designed to defend adversarial information attacks forming a robust approach named RDQKL. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Wenxuan Ma , Kuan-Cheng Chen , Shang Yu , Mengxiang Liu , Ruilong Deng

Deep neural networks tend to underestimate uncertainty and produce overly confident predictions. Recently proposed solutions, such as MC Dropout and SDENet, require complex training and/or auxiliary out-of-distribution data. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Akib Mashrur , Wei Luo , Nayyar A. Zaidi , Antonio Robles-Kelly

Data representation is crucial for the success of machine learning models. In the context of quantum machine learning with near-term quantum computers, equally important considerations of how to efficiently input (encode) data and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Ryan LaRose , Brian Coyle

Deep neural networks trained with standard cross-entropy loss are more prone to memorize noisy labels, which degrades their performance. Negative learning using complementary labels is more robust when noisy labels intervene but with an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chen-Chen Zong , Zheng-Tao Cao , Hong-Tao Guo , Yun Du , Ming-Kun Xie , Shao-Yuan Li , Sheng-Jun Huang

Real-world datasets commonly have noisy labels, which negatively affects the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs). In order to address this problem, we propose a label noise robust learning algorithm, in which the base classifier is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

Noisy training set usually leads to the degradation of generalization and robustness of neural networks. In this paper, we propose using a theoretically guaranteed noisy label detection framework to detect and remove noisy data for Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yikai Wang , Xinwei Sun , Yanwei Fu

It is becoming increasingly important to understand the vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks. One of the fundamental problems in adversarial machine learning is to quantify how much training data is needed in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Pascale Gourdeau

We consider the nonparametric robust estimation problem for regression models in continuous time with semi-Markov noises. An adaptive model selection procedure is proposed. Under general moment conditions on the noise distribution a sharp…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Vlad Barbu , Slim Beltaif , Serguei Pergamenchtchikov