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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

Many popular linear classifiers, such as logistic regression, boosting, or SVM, are trained by optimizing a margin-based risk function. Traditionally, these risk functions are computed based on a labeled dataset. We develop a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-07-23 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Pinar Donmez , Guy Lebanon

This article studies the achievable guarantees on the error rates of certain learning algorithms, with particular focus on refining logarithmic factors. Many of the results are based on a general technique for obtaining bounds on the error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Steve Hanneke

In statistical learning theory, generalization error is used to quantify the degree to which a supervised machine learning algorithm may overfit to training data. Recent work [Xu and Raginsky (2017)] has established a bound on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Ankit Pensia , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

Generalization is a central problem in machine learning, especially when data is limited. Using prior information to enforce constraints is the principled way of encouraging generalization. In this work, we propose to leverage the prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yang Li , Ben Athiwaratkun , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Bing Xiang

Collecting labeled data to train deep neural networks is costly and even impractical for many tasks. Thus, research effort has been focused in automatically curated datasets or unsupervised and weakly supervised learning. The common problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Nam Le , Jean-Marc Odobez

The presence of label noise in the training data has a profound impact on the generalization of deep neural networks (DNNs). In this study, we introduce and theoretically demonstrate a simple feature noise method, which directly adds noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Lu Zeng , Xuan Chen , Xiaoshuang Shi , Heng Tao Shen

Large datasets often have unreliable labels-such as those obtained from Amazon's Mechanical Turk or social media platforms-and classifiers trained on mislabeled datasets often exhibit poor performance. We present a simple, effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Ishan Jindal , Matthew Nokleby , Xuewen Chen

Meta-learning, or "learning to learn", refers to techniques that infer an inductive bias from data corresponding to multiple related tasks with the goal of improving the sample efficiency for new, previously unobserved, tasks. A key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a practical alternative to fully supervised learning when complete and accurate labels are costly or infeasible to acquire. However, many existing methods are tailored to specific supervision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Miao Zhang , Junpeng Li , Changchun Hua , Yana Yang

Certifying the IID generalisation ability of deep networks is the first of many requirements for trusting AI in high-stakes applications from medicine to security. However, when instantiating generalisation bounds for deep networks it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Taehoon Kim , Henry Gouk , Minyoung Kim , Timothy Hospedales

Semi-supervised learning is a setting in which one has labeled and unlabeled data available. In this survey we explore different types of theoretical results when one uses unlabeled data in classification and regression tasks. Most methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Alexander Mey , Marco Loog

Programmatic weak supervision creates models without hand-labeled training data by combining the outputs of heuristic labelers. Existing frameworks make the restrictive assumption that labelers output a single class label. Enabling users to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Peilin Yu , Tiffany Ding , Stephen H. Bach

Despite the popularity and success of deep learning, there is limited understanding of when, how, and why neural networks generalize to unseen examples. Since learning can be seen as extracting information from data, we formally study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Hrayr Harutyunyan

The problem of domain generalization concerns learning predictive models that are robust to distribution shifts when deployed in new, previously unseen environments. Existing methods typically require labeled data from multiple training…

Neural abstractive summarization methods often require large quantities of labeled training data. However, labeling large amounts of summarization data is often prohibitive due to time, financial, and expertise constraints, which has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Junnan Liu , Qianren Mao , Bang Liu , Hao Peng , Hongdong Zhu , Jianxin Li

The multi-label classification problem has generated significant interest in recent years. However, existing approaches do not adequately address two key challenges: (a) the ability to tackle problems with a large number (say millions) of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Hsiang-Fu Yu , Prateek Jain , Purushottam Kar , Inderjit S. Dhillon

In many applications of classifier learning, training data suffers from label noise. Deep networks are learned using huge training data where the problem of noisy labels is particularly relevant. The current techniques proposed for learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Aritra Ghosh , Himanshu Kumar , P. S. Sastry

We derive a tight generalization bound for quantum machine learning that is applicable to a wide range of supervised tasks, data, and models. Our bound is both efficiently computable and free of big-O notation. Furthermore, we point out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xin Wang , Rebing Wu

We present a general methodology for using unlabeled data to design semi supervised learning (SSL) variants of the Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) learning process. Focusing on generalized linear regression, we analyze of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-08 Oren Yuval , Saharon Rosset