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The efficacy of deep learning depends on large-scale data sets that have been carefully curated with reliable data acquisition and annotation processes. However, acquiring such large-scale data sets with precise annotations is very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ragav Sachdeva , Filipe R. Cordeiro , Vasileios Belagiannis , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

Label noise, commonly found in real-world datasets, has a detrimental impact on a model's generalization. To effectively detect incorrectly labeled instances, previous works have mostly relied on distinguishable training signals, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Suyeon Kim , Dongha Lee , SeongKu Kang , Sukang Chae , Sanghwan Jang , Hwanjo Yu

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

Regression methods assume that accurate labels are available for training. However, in certain scenarios, obtaining accurate labels may not be feasible, and relying on multiple specialists with differing opinions becomes necessary. Existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-15 Milene Regina dos Santos , Rafael Izbicki

For high-resource languages like English, text classification is a well-studied task. The performance of modern NLP models easily achieves an accuracy of more than 90% in many standard datasets for text classification in English (Xie et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Dawei Zhu , Michael A. Hedderich , Fangzhou Zhai , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Dietrich Klakow

We study the effect of imperfect training data labels on the performance of classification methods. In a general setting, where the probability that an observation in the training dataset is mislabelled may depend on both the feature vector…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Timothy I. Cannings , Yingying Fan , Richard J. Samworth

Deep models trained with noisy labels are prone to over-fitting and struggle in generalization. Most existing solutions are based on an ideal assumption that the label noise is class-conditional, i.e., instances of the same class share the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Ganlong Zhao , Guanbin Li , Yipeng Qin , Feng Liu , Yizhou Yu

Deep neural networks trained on large supervised datasets have led to impressive results in image classification and other tasks. However, well-annotated datasets can be time-consuming and expensive to collect, lending increased interest to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 David Rolnick , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie , Nir Shavit

Recent studies on the memorization effects of deep neural networks on noisy labels show that the networks first fit the correctly-labeled training samples before memorizing the mislabeled samples. Motivated by this early-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yangdi Lu , Yang Bo , Wenbo He

Conformal Prediction (CP) controls the prediction uncertainty of classification systems by producing a small prediction set, ensuring a predetermined probability that the true class lies within this set. This is commonly done by defining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Coby Penso , Jacob Goldberger , Ethan Fetaya

In this paper we provide machine learning practitioners with tools to answer the question: is there class-conditional noise in my labels? In particular, we present hypothesis tests to check whether a given dataset of instance-label pairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Rafael Poyiadzi , Weisong Yang , Niall Twomey , Raul Santos-Rodriguez

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) with noisy labels is a challenging problem due to over-parameterization. DNNs tend to essentially fit on clean samples at a higher rate in the initial stages, and later fit on the noisy samples at a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Sree Ram Kamabattula , Venkat Devarajan , Babak Namazi , Ganesh Sankaranarayanan

The problem of open-set noisy labels denotes that part of training data have a different label space that does not contain the true class. Lots of approaches, e.g., loss correction and label correction, cannot handle such open-set noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Xiaobo Xia , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Jun Yu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Recent studies indicate that deep neural networks degrade in generalization performance under noisy supervision. Existing methods focus on isolating clean subsets or correcting noisy labels, facing limitations such as high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Kuan Zhang , Chengliang Chai , Jingzhe Xu , Chi Zhang , Han Han , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang , Lei Cao

As an open research topic in the field of deep learning, learning with noisy labels has attracted much attention and grown rapidly over the past ten years. Learning with label noise is crucial for driver distraction behavior recognition, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Linjuan Fan , Di Wen , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Ruiping Liu , Yufan Chen , Junwei Zheng , Jiamin Wu , Xudong Han , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Supervised learning of deep neural networks heavily relies on large-scale datasets annotated by high-quality labels. In contrast, mislabeled samples can significantly degrade the generalization of models and result in memorizing samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tsung-Ming Tai , Yun-Jie Jhang , Wen-Jyi Hwang

Many time series classification tasks, where labels vary over time, are affected by label noise that also varies over time. Such noise can cause label quality to improve, worsen, or periodically change over time. We first propose and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sujay Nagaraj , Walter Gerych , Sana Tonekaboni , Anna Goldenberg , Berk Ustun , Thomas Hartvigsen

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

We study the robustness to symmetric label noise of GNNs training procedures. By combining the nonlinear neural message-passing models (e.g. Graph Isomorphism Networks, GraphSAGE, etc.) with loss correction methods, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Hoang NT , Choong Jun Jin , Tsuyoshi Murata

Statistically consistent methods based on the noise transition matrix ($T$) offer a theoretically grounded solution to Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL), with guarantees of convergence to the optimal clean-data classifier. In practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Chen Feng , Zhuo Zhi , Zhao Huang , Jiawei Ge , Ling Xiao , Nicu Sebe , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras