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In the presence of noisy or incorrect labels, neural networks have the undesirable tendency to memorize information about the noise. Standard regularization techniques such as dropout, weight decay or data augmentation sometimes help, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Hrayr Harutyunyan , Kyle Reing , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Recently deep neural networks have shown their capacity to memorize training data, even with noisy labels, which hurts generalization performance. To mitigate this issue, we provide a simple but effective baseline method that is robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Yucen Luo , Jun Zhu , Tomas Pfister

We construct custom regularization functions for use in supervised training of deep neural networks. Our technique is applicable when the ground-truth labels themselves exhibit internal structure; we derive a regularizer by learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Mohammadreza Mostajabi , Michael Maire , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Deep neural networks are susceptible to label noise. Existing methods to improve robustness, such as meta-learning and regularization, usually require significant change to the network architecture or careful tuning of the optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Li Chen , Ningyuan Huang , Cong Mu , Hayden S. Helm , Kate Lytvynets , Weiwei Yang , Carey E. Priebe

We consider the problem of training a model under the presence of label noise. Current approaches identify samples with potentially incorrect labels and reduce their influence on the learning process by either assigning lower weights to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Duc Tam Nguyen , Thi-Phuong-Nhung Ngo , Zhongyu Lou , Michael Klar , Laura Beggel , Thomas Brox

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) with limited supervision has been a popular research topic as it can significantly alleviate the annotation burden. Self-training has been successfully applied in semi-supervised learning tasks, but one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Ran Xu , Yue Yu , Hejie Cui , Xuan Kan , Yanqiao Zhu , Joyce Ho , Chao Zhang , Carl Yang

Label noise may affect the generalization of classifiers, and the effective learning of main patterns from samples with noisy labels is an important challenge. Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks tend to prioritize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Yi Sun , Yan Tian , Yiping Xu , Jianxiang Li

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

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 memorization problem is well-known in the field of computer vision. Liu et al. propose a technique called Early-Learning Regularization, which improves accuracy on the CIFAR datasets when label noise is present. This project replicates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Alessio Galatolo , Alfred Nilsson , Roderick Karlemstrand , Yineng Wang

Algorithms which minimize the averaged loss have been widely designed for dealing with noisy labels. Intuitively, when there is a finite training sample, penalizing the variance of losses will improve the stability and generalization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yexiong Lin , Yu Yao , Yuxuan Du , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Regularized linear regression is a promising approach for binary classification problems in which the training set has noisy labels since the regularization term can help to avoid interpolating the mislabeled data points. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Danil Akhtiamov , Reza Ghane , Babak Hassibi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become widely-used models for semi-supervised learning. However, the robustness of GNNs in the presence of label noise remains a largely under-explored problem. In this paper, we consider an important yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Siyi Qian , Haochao Ying , Renjun Hu , Jingbo Zhou , Jintai Chen , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

We study the problem of online generalized linear regression in the stochastic setting, where the label is generated from a generalized linear model with possibly unbounded additive noise. We provide a sharp analysis of the classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Heyang Zhao , Dongruo Zhou , Jiafan He , Quanquan Gu

Neural network optimization remains one of the most consequential yet poorly understood challenges in modern AI research, where improvements in training algorithms can lead to enhanced feature learning in foundation models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ansh Nagwekar

We present a novel regularization approach to train neural networks that enjoys better generalization and test error than standard stochastic gradient descent. Our approach is based on the principles of cross-validation, where a validation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

Modern neural networks are typically trained in an over-parameterized regime where the parameters of the model far exceed the size of the training data. Such neural networks in principle have the capacity to (over)fit any set of labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Mingchen Li , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Samet Oymak

Gradient regularization, as described in \citet{barrett2021implicit}, is a highly effective technique for promoting flat minima during gradient descent. Empirical evidence suggests that this regularization technique can significantly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-03 Xuran Meng , Yuan Cao , Difan Zou

Previous research has shown that constraining the gradient of loss function with respect to model-predicted probabilities can enhance the model robustness against noisy labels. These methods typically specify a fixed optimal threshold for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xichen Ye , Yifan Wu , Weizhong Zhang , Xiaoqiang Li , Yifan Chen , Cheng Jin

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