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Deep neural network models are robust to a limited amount of label noise, but their ability to memorise noisy labels in high noise rate problems is still an open issue. The most competitive noisy-label learning algorithms rely on a 2-stage…

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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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to over-fit a dataset when being trained with noisy labels for a long enough time. To overcome this problem, we present a simple and effective method self-ensemble label filtering (SELF) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Duc Tam Nguyen , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Thi Phuong Nhung Ngo , Thi Hoai Phuong Nguyen , Laura Beggel , Thomas Brox

Numerous studies have shown that label noise can lead to poor generalization performance, negatively affecting classification accuracy. Therefore, understanding the effectiveness of classifiers trained using deep neural networks in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haixia Liu , Boxiao Li , Can Yang , Yang Wang

Computer vision systems recently made a big leap thanks to deep neural networks. However, these systems require correctly labeled large datasets in order to be trained properly, which is very difficult to obtain for medical applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy , Şaban Gönül , Banu Turgut , Berker Bakbak

Federated learning with noisy labels (F-LNL) aims at seeking an optimal server model via collaborative distributed learning by aggregating multiple client models trained with local noisy or clean samples. On the basis of a federated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jichang Li , Guanbin Li , Hui Cheng , Zicheng Liao , Yizhou Yu

Recently, over-parameterized deep networks, with increasingly more network parameters than training samples, have dominated the performances of modern machine learning. However, when the training data is corrupted, it has been well-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Sheng Liu , Zhihui Zhu , Qing Qu , Chong You

Noisy labels can significantly impact medical image classification, particularly in deep learning, by corrupting learned features. Self-supervised pretraining, which doesn't rely on labeled data, can enhance robustness against noisy labels.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Cristian Linte

Adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most effective ways to obtain the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, most AT methods suffer from robust overfitting, i.e., a significant generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Daiwei Yu , Zhuorong Li , Lina Wei , Canghong Jin , Yun Zhang , Sixian Chan

Noisy labels in distributed datasets induce severe local overfitting and consequently compromise the global model in federated learning (FL). Most existing solutions rely on selecting clean devices or aligning with public clean datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xiangyu Zhong , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Noisy labels, which are common in real-world datasets, can significantly impair the training of deep learning models. However, recent adversarial noise-combating methods overlook the long-tailed distribution of real data, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Mengting Li , Chuang Zhu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable capabilities in learning from graph-structured data with various applications such as social analysis and bioinformatics. However, the presence of label noise in real scenarios poses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Ju , Wei Zhang , Siyu Yi , Zhengyang Mao , Yifan Wang , Jingyang Yuan , Zhiping Xiao , Ziyue Qiao , Ming Zhang

Consistency regularization is a commonly-used technique for semi-supervised and self-supervised learning. It is an auxiliary objective function that encourages the prediction of the network to be similar in the vicinity of the observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Erik Englesson , Hossein Azizpour

In this paper, we answer the question of when inserting label noise (less informative labels) can instead return us more accurate and fair models. We are primarily inspired by three observations: 1) In contrast to reducing label noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yang Liu , Jialu Wang

We prove that the empirical risk of most well-known loss functions factors into a linear term aggregating all labels with a term that is label free, and can further be expressed by sums of the loss. This holds true even for non-smooth,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Giorgio Patrini , Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock , Marcello Carioni

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

The drastic increase of data quantity often brings the severe decrease of data quality, such as incorrect label annotations, which poses a great challenge for robustly training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Existing learning \mbox{methods}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Qizhou Wang , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Jian Yang , Chen Gong

In this paper, we present a Nuisance-label Supervision (NLS) module, which can make models more robust to nuisance factor variations. Nuisance factors are those irrelevant to a task, and an ideal model should be invariant to them. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Xinyue Wei , Weichao Qiu , Yi Zhang , Zihao Xiao , Alan Yuille

Weakly labeled datasets such as AudioSet have driven recent progress in audio tagging. However, annotation quality varies across sound classes. Labels may be incomplete, ambiguous, or unreliable, which introduces class-dependent supervision…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yuanbo Hou , Zhaoyi Liu , Tong Ye , Qiaoqiao Ren , Jian Guan , Wenwu Wang , Stephen Roberts

Neural networks are central to modern artificial intelligence, yet their training remains highly sensitive to data contamination. Standard neural classifiers are trained by minimizing the categorical cross-entropy loss, corresponding to…

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