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In real-world scenarios, many large-scale datasets often contain inaccurate labels, i.e., noisy labels, which may confuse model training and lead to performance degradation. To overcome this issue, Label Noise Learning (LNL) has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yongliang Ding , Tao Zhou , Chuang Zhang , Yijing Luo , Juan Tang , Chen Gong

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

In real-world applications, perfect labels are rarely available, making it challenging to develop robust machine learning algorithms that can handle noisy labels. Recent methods have focused on filtering noise based on the discrepancy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Mingcai Chen , Yuntao Du , Wei Tang , Baoming Zhang , Hao Cheng , Shuwei Qian , Chongjun Wang

Sample selection is a prevalent method in learning with noisy labels, where small-loss data are typically considered as correctly labeled data. However, this method may not effectively identify clean hard examples with large losses, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Suqin Yuan , Lei Feng , Tongliang Liu

Distant and weak supervision allow to obtain large amounts of labeled training data quickly and cheaply, but these automatic annotations tend to contain a high amount of errors. A popular technique to overcome the negative effects of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Michael A. Hedderich , Dawei Zhu , Dietrich Klakow

Label noise is a significant obstacle in deep learning model training. It can have a considerable impact on the performance of image classification models, particularly deep neural networks, which are especially susceptible because they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Pengwei Yang , Chongyangzi Teng , Jack George Mangos

Node classification on graphs often requires labeled nodes, yet obtaining labels at graph scale is expensive. When node attributes contain semantic content, such as paper abstracts, web pages, or product descriptions, large language models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Safal Thapaliya , Jiatan Huang , Chuxu Zhang

It is important to learn various types of classifiers given training data with noisy labels. Noisy labels, in the most popular noise model hitherto, are corrupted from ground-truth labels by an unknown noise transition matrix. Thus, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Bo Han , Jiangchao Yao , Gang Niu , Mingyuan Zhou , Ivor Tsang , Ya Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

This paper introduces Ranking Info Noise Contrastive Estimation (RINCE), a new member in the family of InfoNCE losses that preserves a ranked ordering of positive samples. In contrast to the standard InfoNCE loss, which requires a strict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 David T. Hoffmann , Nadine Behrmann , Juergen Gall , Thomas Brox , Mehdi Noroozi

Deep neural networks have been shown to be very powerful methods for many supervised learning tasks. However, they can also easily overfit to training set biases, i.e., label noise and class imbalance. While both learning with noisy labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Tong Wei , Jiang-Xin Shi , Yu-Feng Li , Min-Ling Zhang

We investigate the impact of entropy change in deep learning systems by noise injection at different levels, including the embedding space and the image. The series of models that employ our methodology are collectively known as Noisy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiaowei Yu , Zhe Huang , Minheng Chen , Lu Zhang , Tianming Liu , Dajiang Zhu

In-Context Learning (ICL) typically utilizes classification criteria from output probabilities of manually selected label tokens. However, we argue that such token-based classification criteria lead to suboptimal decision boundaries,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Hakaze Cho , Yoshihiro Sakai , Mariko Kato , Kenshiro Tanaka , Akira Ishii , Naoya Inoue

Unsupervised person re-identification (ReID) aims at learning discriminative identity features without annotations. Recently, self-supervised contrastive learning has gained increasing attention for its effectiveness in unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Hao Chen , Benoit Lagadec , Francois Bremond

We extend our previous work on Inductive Conformal Prediction (ICP) for multi-label text classification and present a novel approach for addressing the computational inefficiency of the Label Powerset (LP) ICP, arrising when dealing with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Lysimachos Maltoudoglou , Andreas Paisios , Ladislav Lenc , Jiří Martínek , Pavel Král , Harris Papadopoulos

Image-based diagnostic decision support systems (DDSS) utilizing deep learning have the potential to optimize clinical workflows. However, developing DDSS requires extensive datasets with expert annotations and is therefore costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Helen Schneider , Sebastian Nowak , Aditya Parikh , Yannik C. Layer , Maike Theis , Wolfgang Block , Alois M. Sprinkart , Ulrike Attenberger , Rafet Sifa

Machine learning classifiers have been demonstrated, both empirically and theoretically, to be robust to label noise under certain conditions -- notably the typical assumption is that label noise is independent of the features given the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Diane Oyen , Michal Kucer , Nick Hengartner , Har Simrat Singh

\textit{Multiple Instance Learning} (MIL) is concerned with learning from bags of instances, where only bag labels are given and instance labels are unknown. Existent approaches in this field were mainly designed for the bag-level label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Minlong Peng , Qi Zhang

A deep neural network trained on noisy labels is known to quickly lose its power to discriminate clean instances from noisy ones. After the early learning phase has ended, the network memorizes the noisy instances, which leads to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jason Z. Lin , Jelena Bradic

We present a theoretically grounded approach to train deep neural networks, including recurrent networks, subject to class-dependent label noise. We propose two procedures for loss correction that are agnostic to both application domain and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-23 Giorgio Patrini , Alessandro Rozza , Aditya Menon , Richard Nock , Lizhen Qu

Acquiring ground truth labels for unlabelled data can be a costly procedure, since it often requires manual labour that is error-prone. Consequently, the available amount of labelled data is increasingly reduced due to the limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Athanasios Davvetas , Iraklis A. Klampanos