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Noisy labels are ubiquitous in real-world datasets, especially in the large-scale ones derived from crowdsourcing and web searching. It is challenging to train deep neural networks with noisy datasets since the networks are prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yangdi Lu , Wenbo He

Machine learning classification systems are susceptible to poor performance when trained with incorrect ground truth labels, even when data is well-curated by expert annotators. As machine learning becomes more widespread, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zan Chaudhry , Noam H. Rotenberg , Brian Caffo , Craig K. Jones , Haris I. Sair

Given data with label noise (i.e., incorrect data), deep neural networks would gradually memorize the label noise and impair model performance. To relieve this issue, curriculum learning is proposed to improve model performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tingting Wu , Xiao Ding , Hao Zhang , Jinglong Gao , Li Du , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Training deep neural networks requires massive amounts of training data, but for many tasks only limited labeled data is available. This makes weak supervision attractive, using weak or noisy signals like the output of heuristic methods or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Mostafa Dehghani , Aliaksei Severyn , Sascha Rothe , Jaap Kamps

Weakly-supervised learning is a paradigm for alleviating the scarcity of labeled data by leveraging lower-quality but larger-scale supervision signals. While existing work mainly focuses on utilizing a certain type of weak supervision, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Yivan Zhang , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Masashi Sugiyama

Current state-of-the-art deep learning systems for visual object recognition and detection use purely supervised training with regularization such as dropout to avoid overfitting. The performance depends critically on the amount of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Scott Reed , Honglak Lee , Dragomir Anguelov , Christian Szegedy , Dumitru Erhan , Andrew Rabinovich

Daily operation of a large-scale experiment is a resource consuming task, particularly from perspectives of routine data quality monitoring. Typically, data comes from different sub-detectors and the global quality of data depends on the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-11-21 V. Azzolini , M. Borisyak , G. Cerminara , D. Derkach , G. Franzoni , F. De Guio , O. Koval , M. Pierini , A. Pol , F. Ratnikov , F. Siroky , A. Ustyuzhanin , J-R. Vlimant

Supervised deep learning is most commonly applied to difficult problems defined on large and often extensively curated datasets. Here we demonstrate the ability of deep representation learning to address problems of classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Benjamin L. Badger

In the weakly supervised learning paradigm, labeling functions automatically assign heuristic, often noisy, labels to data samples. In this work, we provide a method for learning from weak labels by separating two types of complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Andreas Stephan , Vasiliki Kougia , Benjamin Roth

In fine-grained road scene understanding, semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling vehicles to perceive and comprehend their surroundings. By assigning a specific class label to each pixel in an image, it allows for precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuting Hong , Yongkang Wu , Hui Xiao , Huazheng Hao , Xiaojie Qiu , Baochen Yao , Chengbin Peng

Deep neural networks demonstrated their ability to provide remarkable performances on a wide range of supervised learning tasks (e.g., image classification) when trained on extensive collections of labeled data (e.g., ImageNet). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami

In many real-world scenarios, obtaining large amounts of labeled data can be a daunting task. Weakly supervised learning techniques have gained significant attention in recent years as an alternative to traditional supervised learning, as…

Deep learning models often achieve high performance by inadvertently learning spurious correlations between targets and non-essential features. For example, an image classifier may identify an object via its background that spuriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Guangtao Zheng , Wenqian Ye , Aidong Zhang

In community detection on graphs, the semi-supervised learning problem entails inferring the ground-truth membership of each node in a graph, given the connectivity structure and a limited number of revealed node labels. Different subsets…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-22 Hugo Cui , Luca Saglietti , Lenka Zdeborová

Curation of large fully supervised datasets has become one of the major roadblocks for machine learning. Weak supervision provides an alternative to supervised learning by training with cheap, noisy, and possibly correlated labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

In learning with noisy labels, the sample selection approach is very popular, which regards small-loss data as correctly labeled during training. However, losses are generated on-the-fly based on the model being trained with noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Xiaobo Xia , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Jun Yu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Dynamic learning systems subject to selective labeling exhibit censoring, i.e. persistent negative predictions assigned to one or more subgroups of points. In applications like consumer finance, this results in groups of applicants that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Jennifer Chien , Margaret Roberts , Berk Ustun

Existing semi-supervised medical segmentation co-learning frameworks have realized that model performance can be diminished by the biases in model recognition caused by low-quality pseudo-labels. Due to the averaging nature of their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Yuanpeng He , Yali Bi , Lijian Li , Chi-Man Pun , Wenpin Jiao , Zhi Jin

Unravelling hidden patterns in datasets is a classical problem with many potential applications. In this paper, we present a challenge whose objective is to discover nonlinear relationships in noisy cloud of points. If a set of point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-31 Terry Lyons , Imanol Perez Arribas

Falsely annotated samples, also known as noisy labels, can significantly harm the performance of deep learning models. Two main approaches for learning with noisy labels are global noise estimation and data filtering. Global noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yuval Grinberg , Nimrod Harel , Jacob Goldberger , Ofir Lindenbaum