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There has been much interest in recent years in learning good classifiers from data with noisy labels. Most work on learning from noisy labels has focused on standard loss-based performance measures. However, many machine learning problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Mingyuan Zhang , Shivani Agarwal

Collecting large-scale data with clean labels for supervised training of neural networks is practically challenging. Although noisy labels are usually cheap to acquire, existing methods suffer a lot from label noise. This paper targets at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zizhao Zhang , Han Zhang , Sercan O. Arik , Honglak Lee , Tomas Pfister

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed framework for collaboratively training with privacy guarantees. In real-world scenarios, clients may have Non-IID data (local class imbalance) with poor annotation quality (label noise). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Chenrui Wu , Zexi Li , Fangxin Wang , Chao Wu

Modern neural networks have the capacity to overfit noisy labels frequently found in real-world datasets. Although great progress has been made, existing techniques are limited in providing theoretical guarantees for the performance of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Kaidi Cao , Jure Leskovec

Label noise is emerging as a pressing issue in sound event classification. This arises as we move towards larger datasets that are difficult to annotate manually, but it is even more severe if datasets are collected automatically from…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eduardo Fonseca , Frederic Font , Xavier Serra

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

Deep learning with noisy labels is practically challenging, as the capacity of deep models is so high that they can totally memorize these noisy labels sooner or later during training. Nonetheless, recent studies on the memorization effects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Bo Han , Quanming Yao , Xingrui Yu , Gang Niu , Miao Xu , Weihua Hu , Ivor Tsang , Masashi Sugiyama

Multi-label image classification has generated significant interest in recent years and the performance of such systems often suffers from the not so infrequent occurrence of incorrect or missing labels in the training data. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Zhuolin Jiang , Jan Silovsky , Man-Hung Siu , William Hartmann , Herbert Gish , Sancar Adali

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

For multi-class classification under class-conditional label noise, we prove that the accuracy metric itself can be robust. We concretize this finding's inspiration in two essential aspects: training and validation, with which we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pengfei Chen , Junjie Ye , Guangyong Chen , Jingwei Zhao , Pheng-Ann Heng

This paper aims to provide understandings for the effect of an over-parameterized model, e.g. a deep neural network, memorizing instance-dependent noisy labels. We first quantify the harms caused by memorizing noisy instances, and show the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yang Liu

The presence of label noise often misleads the training of deep neural networks. Departing from the recent literature which largely assumes the label noise rate is only determined by the true label class, the errors in human-annotated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Zhaowei Zhu , Tongliang Liu , Yang Liu

One-hot labels do not represent soft decision boundaries among concepts, and hence, models trained on them are prone to overfitting. Using soft labels as targets provide regularization, but different soft labels might be optimal at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Nidhi Vyas , Shreyas Saxena , Thomas Voice

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data; however, the presence of noisy labels across distributed clients can severely degrade the learning performance. In this paper, we propose FedSIR, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sina Gholami , Abdulmoneam Ali , Tania Haghighi , Ahmed Arafa , Minhaj Nur Alam

Federated learning has gained popularity for distributed learning without aggregating sensitive data from clients. But meanwhile, the distributed and isolated nature of data isolation may be complicated by data quality, making it more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Siqi Liang , Jintao Huang , Junyuan Hong , Dun Zeng , Jiayu Zhou , Zenglin Xu

Label noise widely exists in large-scale datasets and significantly degenerates the performances of deep learning algorithms. Due to the non-identifiability of the instance-dependent noise transition matrix, most existing algorithms address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Hanwen Deng , Weijia Zhang , Min-Ling Zhang

Datasets with significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels present challenges for training accurate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We propose a new perspective for understanding DNN generalization for such datasets, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Xingjun Ma , Yisen Wang , Michael E. Houle , Shuo Zhou , Sarah M. Erfani , Shu-Tao Xia , Sudanthi Wijewickrema , James Bailey

Data-driven software engineering processes, such as vulnerability prediction heavily rely on the quality of the data used. In this paper, we observe that it is infeasible to obtain a noise-free security defect dataset in practice. Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Roland Croft , M. Ali Babar , Huaming Chen

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized edge devices while preserving data privacy. However, existing FL methods often assume clean annotated datasets, impractical for resource-constrained edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Mahdi Morafah , Hojin Chang , Chen Chen , Bill Lin

Noisy labels can impair model performance, making the study of learning with noisy labels an important topic. Two conventional approaches are noise modeling and noise detection. However, these two methods are typically studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Siqi Wang , Chau Pham , Bryan A. Plummer