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Label Smoothing (LS) improves model generalization through penalizing models from generating overconfident output distributions. For each training sample the LS strategy smooths the one-hot encoded training signal by distributing its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hongyu Guo

Regularization is an effective way to promote the generalization performance of machine learning models. In this paper, we focus on label smoothing, a form of output distribution regularization that prevents overfitting of a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Weizhi Li , Gautam Dasarathy , Visar Berisha

Label smoothing (LS) is an arising learning paradigm that uses the positively weighted average of both the hard training labels and uniformly distributed soft labels. It was shown that LS serves as a regularizer for training data with hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jiaheng Wei , Hangyu Liu , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Yang Liu

Label smoothing is an effective regularization tool for deep neural networks (DNNs), which generates soft labels by applying a weighted average between the uniform distribution and the hard label. It is often used to reduce the overfitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Chang-Bin Zhang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Qibin Hou , Yunchao Wei , Qi Han , Zhen Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Label smoothing (LS) is a popular regularisation method for training neural networks as it is effective in improving test accuracy and is simple to implement. ``Hard'' one-hot labels are ``smoothed'' by uniformly distributing probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Guoxuan Xia , Olivier Laurent , Gianni Franchi , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

We study Label Smoothing (LS), a widely used regularization technique, in the context of neural learning to rank (L2R) models. LS combines the ground-truth labels with a uniform distribution, encouraging the model to be less confident in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Gustavo Penha , Claudia Hauff

Regularization techniques are crucial to improving the generalization performance and training efficiency of deep neural networks. Many deep learning algorithms rely on weight decay, dropout, batch/layer normalization to converge faster and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Peng Lu , Ahmad Rashid , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Philippe Langlais

Deep Learning, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), has been successful in computer vision tasks and medical image analysis. However, modern CNNs can be overconfident, making them difficult to deploy in real-world scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Somenath Kuiry , Alaka Das , Mita Nasipuri , Nibaran Das

Overconfidence has been shown to impair generalization and calibration of a neural network. Previous studies remedy this issue by adding a regularization term to a loss function, preventing a model from making a peaked distribution. Label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Dongkyu Lee , Ka Chun Cheung , Nevin L. Zhang

Training neural networks with one-hot target labels often results in overconfidence and overfitting. Label smoothing addresses this issue by perturbing the one-hot target labels by adding a uniform probability vector to create a regularized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Sachin Chhabra , Hemanth Venkateswara , Baoxin Li

The generalization and learning speed of a multi-class neural network can often be significantly improved by using soft targets that are a weighted average of the hard targets and the uniform distribution over labels. Smoothing the labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Rafael Müller , Simon Kornblith , Geoffrey Hinton

Label smoothing is a regularization technique for neural networks. Normally neural models are trained to an output distribution that is a vector with a single 1 for the correct prediction, and 0 for all other elements. Label smoothing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Sakib Haque , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, which aims to distinguish unknown classes from known classes, has received increasing attention recently. A main challenge within is the unavailable of samples from the unknown classes in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mingle Xu , Jaehwan Lee , Sook Yoon , Dong Sun Park

Label smoothing regularization (LSR) has a great success in training deep neural networks by stochastic algorithms such as stochastic gradient descent and its variants. However, the theoretical understanding of its power from the view of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yi Xu , Yuanhong Xu , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Label smoothing is widely used in deep neural networks for multi-class classification. While it enhances model generalization and reduces overconfidence by aiming to lower the probability for the predicted class, it distorts the predicted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mohamed Maher , Meelis Kull

Overfitting commonly occurs when applying deep neural networks (DNNs) on small-scale datasets, where DNNs do not generalize well from existing data to unseen data. The main reason resulting in overfitting is that small-scale datasets cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yangdi Wang , Zhi-Hai Zhang , Su Xiu Xu , Wenming Guo

The task of image segmentation is inherently noisy due to ambiguities regarding the exact location of boundaries between anatomical structures. We argue that this information can be extracted from the expert annotations at no extra cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mobarakol Islam , Ben Glocker

Deep learning models, especially convolutional neural networks, have achieved impressive results in medical image classification. However, these models often produce overconfident predictions, which can undermine their reliability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kushan Choudhury , Shubhrodeep Roy , Ankur Chanda , Shubhajit Biswas , Somenath Kuiry

Recent advances in pre-trained vision-language models have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization capabilities. To further enhance these models' adaptability to various downstream tasks, prompt tuning has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yang Chen , Yanbin Wei , Ke Jin , Yi Kong , James Kwok , Yu Zhang

Continuous pseudo-labeling (PL) algorithms such as slimIPL have recently emerged as a powerful strategy for semi-supervised learning in speech recognition. In contrast with earlier strategies that alternated between training a model and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Tatiana Likhomanenko , Ronan Collobert , Navdeep Jaitly , Samy Bengio
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