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A natural way of estimating heteroscedastic label noise in regression is to model the observed (potentially noisy) target as a sample from a normal distribution, whose parameters can be learned by minimizing the negative log-likelihood.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Erik Englesson , Amir Mehrpanah , Hossein Azizpour

Often when multiple labels are obtained for a training example it is assumed that there is an element of noise that must be accounted for. It has been shown that this disagreement can be considered signal instead of noise. In this work we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-28 John P. Lalor , Hao Wu , Hong Yu

Cross-lingual transfer of word embeddings aims to establish the semantic mappings among words in different languages by learning the transformation functions over the corresponding word embedding spaces. Successfully solving this problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Ruochen Xu , Yiming Yang , Naoki Otani , Yuexin Wu

In recent years, research on learning with noisy labels has focused on devising novel algorithms that can achieve robustness to noisy training labels while generalizing to clean data. These algorithms often incorporate sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Hui Kang , Sheng Liu , Huaxi Huang , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu

Soft augmentation regularizes the supervised learning process of image classifiers by reducing label confidence of a training sample based on the magnitude of random-crop augmentation applied to it. This paper extends this adaptive label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Georg Siedel , Ekagra Gupta , Weijia Shao , Silvia Vock , Andrey Morozov

Pseudo-labels are widely employed in weakly supervised 3D segmentation tasks where only sparse ground-truth labels are available for learning. Existing methods often rely on empirical label selection strategies, such as confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Liyao Tang , Zhe Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Chaoyue Wang , Dacheng Tao

This paper focuses on the unsupervised domain adaptation of transferring the knowledge from the source domain to the target domain in the context of semantic segmentation. Existing approaches usually regard the pseudo label as the ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Zhedong Zheng , Yi Yang

Audio-language models have recently demonstrated strong zero-shot capabilities by leveraging natural-language supervision to classify audio events without labeled training data. Yet, their performance is highly sensitive to the wording of…

Label noise poses an important challenge in machine learning, especially in deep learning, in which large models with high expressive power dominate the field. Models of that kind are prone to memorizing incorrect labels, thereby harming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Julian Lienen , Eyke Hüllermeier

Regularization techniques are crucial to improving the generalization performance and training efficiency of deep neural networks. Many deep learning algorithms rely on weight decay, dropout, batch/layer normalization to converge faster and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Peng Lu , Ahmad Rashid , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Philippe Langlais

Label smoothing (LS) is a popular regularisation method for training neural networks as it is effective in improving test accuracy and is simple to implement. ``Hard'' one-hot labels are ``smoothed'' by uniformly distributing probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Guoxuan Xia , Olivier Laurent , Gianni Franchi , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

A crucial aspect of a knowledge base population system that extracts new facts from text corpora, is the generation of training data for its relation extractors. In this paper, we present a method that maximizes the effectiveness of newly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Lucas Sterckx , Thomas Demeester , Johannes Deleu , Chris Develder

The vulnerability of models to data aberrations and adversarial attacks influences their ability to demarcate distinct class boundaries efficiently. The network's confidence and uncertainty play a pivotal role in weight adjustments and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Utkarsh Uppal , Bharat Giddwani

This paper proposes a method for machine learning from unlabeled data in the form of a time-series. The mapping that is learned is shown to extract slowly evolving information that would be useful for control applications, while efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Per Rutquist

The cost of annotating transcriptions for large speech corpora becomes a bottleneck to maximally enjoy the potential capacity of deep neural network-based automatic speech recognition models. In this paper, we present a new training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Jihwan Bang , Heesu Kim , YoungJoon Yoo , Jung-Woo Ha

Label noise is ubiquitous in real-world scenarios, posing a practical challenge to supervised models due to its effect in hurting the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Existing methods primarily employ the sample selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mengmeng Sheng , Zeren Sun , Tao Chen , Shuchao Pang , Yucheng Wang , Yazhou Yao

We propose a method, called Label Embedding Network, which can learn label representation (label embedding) during the training process of deep networks. With the proposed method, the label embedding is adaptively and automatically learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Xu Sun , Bingzhen Wei , Xuancheng Ren , Shuming Ma

We introduce a novel method for training machine learning models in the presence of noisy labels, which are prevalent in domains such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving and have the potential to degrade a model's generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Farooq Ahmad Wani , Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Fabrizio Silvestri

State-of-the-art speaker verification systems are inherently dependent on some kind of human supervision as they are trained on massive amounts of labeled data. However, manually annotating utterances is slow, expensive and not scalable to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Théo Lepage , Réda Dehak

Grammar competency estimation is essential for assessing linguistic proficiency in both written and spoken language; however, the spoken modality presents additional challenges due to its spontaneous, unstructured, and disfluent nature.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sourya Dipta Das , Shubham Kumar , Kuldeep Yadav