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Noisy labels are inevitable yet problematic in machine learning society. It ruins the generalization of a classifier by making the classifier over-fitted to noisy labels. Existing methods on noisy label have focused on modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 HeeSun Bae , Seungjae Shin , Byeonghu Na , JoonHo Jang , Kyungwoo Song , Il-Chul Moon

We propose a novel framework to perform classification via deep learning in the presence of noisy annotations. When trained on noisy labels, deep neural networks have been observed to first fit the training data with clean labels during an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sheng Liu , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Narges Razavian , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Deep neural networks are prone to overfitting noisy labels, resulting in poor generalization performance. To overcome this problem, we present a simple and effective method self-ensemble label correction (SELC) to progressively correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yangdi Lu , Wenbo He

Robust learning from noisy demonstrations is a practical but highly challenging problem in imitation learning. In this paper, we first theoretically show that robust imitation learning can be achieved by optimizing a classification risk…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-22 Voot Tangkaratt , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Masashi Sugiyama

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

Recently deep neural networks have been successfully used for various classification tasks, especially for problems with massive perfectly labeled training data. However, it is often costly to have large-scale credible labels in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Mingxiao An , Yongzhou Chen , Qi Liu , Chuanren Liu , Guangyi Lv , Fangzhao Wu , Jianhui Ma

Generative models have long been the dominant approach for speech recognition. The success of these models however relies on the use of sophisticated recipes and complicated machinery that is not easily accessible to non-practitioners.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Chung-Cheng Chiu , Dieterich Lawson , Yuping Luo , George Tucker , Kevin Swersky , Ilya Sutskever , Navdeep Jaitly

Training deep neural network (DNN) with noisy labels is practically challenging since inaccurate labels severely degrade the generalization ability of DNN. Previous efforts tend to handle part or full data in a unified denoising flow via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Yuanpeng Tu , Jinlong Peng , Yabiao Wang , Cunlin Wu , Yang Xiao , Cairong Zhao

Neural sequence labeling (NSL) aims at assigning labels for input language tokens, which covers a broad range of applications, such as named entity recognition (NER) and slot filling, etc. However, the satisfying results achieved by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jianing Wang , Chengyu Wang , Jun Huang , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

Recent studies in deep learning have shown significant progress in named entity recognition (NER). Most existing works assume clean data annotation, yet a fundamental challenge in real-world scenarios is the large amount of noise from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Kun Liu , Yao Fu , Chuanqi Tan , Mosha Chen , Ningyu Zhang , Songfang Huang , Sheng Gao

Training a deep neural network with noisy labels could reduce data annotation cost but may introduce noise into the learned model. In meta label correction approaches, an additional meta model besides the main model is trained with a small,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ba Hoang Anh Nguyen , Viet Cuong Ta

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

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

We study the problem of training named entity recognition (NER) models using only distantly-labeled data, which can be automatically obtained by matching entity mentions in the raw text with entity types in a knowledge base. The biggest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Xuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Training neural network classifiers on datasets contaminated with noisy labels significantly increases the risk of overfitting. Thus, effectively implementing Early Stopping in noisy label environments is crucial. Under ideal circumstances,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 William Toner , Amos Storkey

Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality manual annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan Kankanhalli

In supervised machine learning, use of correct labels is extremely important to ensure high accuracy. Unfortunately, most datasets contain corrupted labels. Machine learning models trained on such datasets do not generalize well. Thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Chang Yue , Niraj K. Jha

The prevalence of noisy labels in real-world datasets poses a significant impediment to the effective deployment of deep learning models. While meta-learning strategies have emerged as a promising approach for addressing this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Mengyang Li

Although noisy-label learning is often approached with discriminative methods for simplicity and speed, generative modeling offers a principled alternative by capturing the joint mechanism that produces features, clean labels, and corrupted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Fengbei Liu , Chong Wang , Yuanhong Chen , Yuyuan Liu , Gustavo Carneiro

Neural Encoders are frequently used in the NLP domain to perform dense retrieval tasks, for instance, to generate the candidate documents for a given query in question-answering tasks. However, sparse annotation and label noise in the…

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