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Unregularized deep neural networks (DNNs) can be easily overfit with a limited sample size. We argue that this is mostly due to the disriminative nature of DNNs which directly model the conditional probability (or score) of labels given the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Shuangfei Zhai , Zhongfei Zhang

Noisy labels are inevitable in real-world scenarios. Due to the strong capacity of deep neural networks to memorize corrupted labels, these noisy labels can cause significant performance degradation. Existing research on mitigating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xinlei Zhang , Fan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Fan Cheng , Yuhui Zheng

Efficient inference for wide output layers (WOLs) is an essential yet challenging task in large scale machine learning. Most approaches reduce this problem to approximate maximum inner product search (MIPS), which relies heavily on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Zichang Liu , Zhaozhuo Xu , Alan Ji , Jonathan Li , Beidi Chen , Anshumali Shrivastava

Recently it has been shown that state-of-the-art NLP models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where the predictions of a model can be drastically altered by slight modifications to the input (such as synonym substitutions). While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yahan Yang , Soham Dan , Dan Roth , Insup Lee

Label noise in datasets could significantly damage the performance and robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on these datasets. As the size of modern DNNs grows, there is a growing demand for automated tools for detecting such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Dang Huu-Tien , Minh-Phuong Nguyen , Naoya Inoue

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

The ambiguous appearance, tiny scale, and fine-grained classes of objects in remote sensing imagery inevitably lead to the noisy annotations in category labels of detection dataset. However, the effects and treatments of the label noises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Guozhang Liu , Ting Liu , Mengke Yuan , Tao Pang , Guangxing Yang , Hao Fu , Tao Wang , Tongkui Liao

Deep Learning-based Unsupervised Salient Object Detection (USOD) mainly relies on the noisy saliency pseudo labels that have been generated from traditional handcraft methods or pre-trained networks. To cope with the noisy labels problem, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Huajun Zhou , Bo Qiao , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Large-scale datasets may contain significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels, and it is well-known that modern deep neural networks (DNNs) poorly generalize from such noisy training datasets. To mitigate the issue, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-15 Kimin Lee , Sukmin Yun , Kibok Lee , Honglak Lee , Bo Li , Jinwoo Shin

Deep learning has gained broad interest in remote sensing image scene classification thanks to the effectiveness of deep neural networks in extracting the semantics from complex data. However, deep networks require large amounts of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Gianmarco Perantoni , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Learning from noisy labels is an important and long-standing problem in machine learning for real applications. One of the main research lines focuses on learning a label corrector to purify potential noisy labels. However, these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jian Chen , Ruiyi Zhang , Tong Yu , Rohan Sharma , Zhiqiang Xu , Tong Sun , Changyou Chen

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

Out-of-Domain (OOD) intent detection is important for practical dialog systems. To alleviate the issue of lacking OOD training samples, some works propose synthesizing pseudo OOD samples and directly assigning one-hot OOD labels to these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Hao Lang , Yinhe Zheng , Jian Sun , Fei Huang , Luo Si , Yongbin Li

Training deep neural networks(DNN) with noisy labels is challenging since DNN can easily memorize inaccurate labels, leading to poor generalization ability. Recently, the meta-learning based label correction strategy is widely adopted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

Learning from noisy labels (LNL) is a challenge that arises in many real-world scenarios where collected training data can contain incorrect or corrupted labels. Most existing solutions identify noisy labels and adopt active learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Bo Yuan , Yulin Chen , Yin Zhang , Wei Jiang

Prior work has explored directly regularizing the output distributions of probabilistic models to alleviate peaky (i.e. over-confident) predictions, a common sign of overfitting. This class of techniques, of which label smoothing is one,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Clara Meister , Elizabeth Salesky , Ryan Cotterell

The labels used to train machine learning (ML) models are of paramount importance. Typically for ML classification tasks, datasets contain hard labels, yet learning using soft labels has been shown to yield benefits for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Katherine M. Collins , Umang Bhatt , Adrian Weller

In semantic segmentation, training data down-sampling is commonly performed due to limited resources, the need to adapt image size to the model input, or improve data augmentation. This down-sampling typically employs different strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Roberto Alcover-Couso , Marcos Escudero-Vinolo , Juan C. SanMiguel , Jose M. Martinez

The challenge of labeling large example datasets for computer vision continues to limit the availability and scope of image repositories. This research provides a new method for automated data collection, curation, labeling, and iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Grant Rosario , David Noever , Matt Ciolino

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to enable a learning model trained from a source domain to generalize well on a target domain, despite the mismatch of data distributions between the two domains. State-of-the-art DA methods have so far focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Lingkun Luo , Liming Chen , Shiqiang Hu