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Noise is usually regarded as adversarial to extract the effective dynamics from time series, such that the conventional data-driven approaches usually aim at learning the dynamics by mitigating the noisy effect. However, noise can have a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-09-12 Zequn Lin , Zhaofan Lu , Zengru Di , Ying Tang

The work discusses the use of machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection in medical image analysis and how the performance of these algorithms depends on the number of annotators and the quality of labels. To address the issue of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Hieu H. Pham , Khiem H. Le , Tuan V. Tran , Ha Q. Nguyen

We tackle the problem of learning linear classifiers from noisy datasets in a multiclass setting. The two-class version of this problem was studied a few years ago where the proposed approaches to combat the noise revolve around a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Ugo Louche , Liva Ralaivola

Image annotation aims to annotate a given image with a variable number of class labels corresponding to diverse visual concepts. In this paper, we address two main issues in large-scale image annotation: 1) how to learn a rich feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Yulei Niu , Zhiwu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen , Tao Xiang , Shih-Fu Chang

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

Multimodal learning systems often face substantial uncertainty due to noisy data, low-quality labels, and heterogeneous modality characteristics. These issues become especially critical in human-computer interaction settings, where data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Hyo-Jeong Jang

The monotonic ordinal classification has increased the interest of researchers and practitioners within machine learning community in the last years. In real applications, the problems with monotonicity constraints are very frequent. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-23 José-Ramón Cano , Julián Luengo , Salvador García

In partial label learning (PLL), every sample is associated with a candidate label set comprising the ground-truth label and several noisy labels. The conventional PLL assumes the noisy labels are randomly generated (instance-independent),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Fuchao Yang , Jianhong Cheng , Hui Liu , Yongqiang Dong , Yuheng Jia , Junhui Hou

The focus of this paper is to address the knowledge acquisition bottleneck for Named Entity Recognition (NER) of mutations, by analysing different approaches to build manually-annotated data. We address first the impact of using a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-20 David Martinez Iraola , Antonio Jimeno Yepes

Many state-of-the-art noisy-label learning methods rely on learning mechanisms that estimate the samples' clean labels during training and discard their original noisy labels. However, this approach prevents the learning of the relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Brandon Smart , Gustavo Carneiro

The exponential growth of web content is a major key to the success for Recommender Systems. This paper addresses the challenge of defining noise, which is inherently related to variability in human preferences and behaviors. In classifying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Clarita Hawat , Wissam Al Jurdi , Jacques Bou Abdo , Jacques Demerjian , Abdallah Makhoul

Supervised classification heavily depends on datasets annotated by humans. However, in subjective tasks such as toxicity classification, these annotations often exhibit low agreement among raters. Annotations have commonly been aggregated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Negar Mokhberian , Myrl G. Marmarelis , Frederic R. Hopp , Valerio Basile , Fred Morstatter , Kristina Lerman

Large-scale datasets have driven the rapid development of deep neural networks for visual recognition. However, annotating a massive dataset is expensive and time-consuming. Web images and their labels are, in comparison, much easier to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Bohan Zhuang , Lingqiao Liu , Yao Li , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

The original ImageNet benchmark enforces a single-label assumption, despite many images depicting multiple objects. This leads to label noise and limits the richness of the learning signal. Multi-label annotations more accurately reflect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Junyu Chen , Md Yousuf Harun , Christopher Kanan

This paper presents a generic Bayesian framework that enables any deep learning model to actively learn from targeted crowds. Our framework inherits from recent advances in Bayesian deep learning, and extends existing work by considering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Jie Yang , Thomas Drake , Andreas Damianou , Yoelle Maarek

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

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

Crowdsourcing has been the prevalent paradigm for creating natural language understanding datasets in recent years. A common crowdsourcing practice is to recruit a small number of high-quality workers, and have them massively generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Mor Geva , Yoav Goldberg , Jonathan Berant

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

Noisy labels severely hinder the accuracy and generalization of machine learning models, especially when ambiguous instance features make reliable annotation difficult. Existing approaches, including transition-matrix-based label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuxiang Zheng , Zhongyi Han , Yilong Yin