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Deep networks have strong capacities of embedding data into latent representations and finishing following tasks. However, the capacities largely come from high-quality annotated labels, which are expensive to collect. Noisy labels are more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shikun Li , Xiaobo Xia , Shiming Ge , Tongliang Liu

In this paper, we study the named entity recognition (NER) problem under distant supervision. Due to the incompleteness of the external dictionaries and/or knowledge bases, such distantly annotated training data usually suffer from a high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Kang Zhou , Yuepei Li , Qi Li

Deep learning models rely heavily on large volumes of labeled data to achieve high performance. However, real-world datasets often contain noisy labels due to human error, ambiguity, or resource constraints during the annotation process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Gouranga Bala , Anuj Gupta , Subrat Kumar Behera , Amit Sethi

Labels are costly and sometimes unreliable. Noisy label learning, semi-supervised learning, and contrastive learning are three different strategies for designing learning processes requiring less annotation cost. Semi-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Xin Zhang , Zixuan Liu , Kaiwen Xiao , Tian Shen , Junzhou Huang , Wei Yang , Dimitris Samaras , Xiao Han

Cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER) aims to train an NER model for the target language leveraging only labeled source language data and unlabeled target language data. Prior approaches either perform label projection on translated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhuojun Ding , Wei Wei , Xiaoye Qu , Dangyang Chen

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

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

Noisy labels, resulting from mistakes in manual labeling or webly data collecting for supervised learning, can cause neural networks to overfit the misleading information and degrade the generalization performance. Self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Cheng Tan , Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Stan Z. Li

The remarkable success of today's deep neural networks highly depends on a massive number of correctly labeled data. However, it is rather costly to obtain high-quality human-labeled data, leading to the active research area of training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jiacheng Wang , Yue Ma , Shuang Gao

Label noise is pervasive in various real-world scenarios, posing challenges in supervised deep learning. Deep networks are vulnerable to such label-corrupted samples due to the memorization effect. One major stream of previous methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zeren Sun , Yazhou Yao , Tongliang Liu , Zechao Li , Fumin Shen , Jinhui Tang

In this work, we explore the way to perform named entity recognition (NER) using only unlabeled data and named entity dictionaries. To this end, we formulate the task as a positive-unlabeled (PU) learning problem and accordingly propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Minlong Peng , Xiaoyu Xing , Qi Zhang , Jinlan Fu , Xuanjing Huang

Recently, the task of distantly supervised (DS) ultra-fine entity typing has received significant attention. However, DS data is noisy and often suffers from missing or wrong labeling issues resulting in low precision and low recall. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yue Zhang , Hongliang Fei , Ping Li

Training accurate deep neural networks (DNNs) in the presence of noisy labels is an important and challenging task. Though a number of approaches have been proposed for learning with noisy labels, many open issues remain. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yisen Wang , Xingjun Ma , Zaiyi Chen , Yuan Luo , Jinfeng Yi , James Bailey

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has become a powerful solution to extract rich representations from unlabeled data. Yet, SSL research is mostly focused on clean, curated and high-quality datasets. As a result, applying SSL on noisy data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Wenquan Lu , Jiaqi Zhang , Hugues Van Assel , Randall Balestriero

Federated learning with noisy labels (F-LNL) aims at seeking an optimal server model via collaborative distributed learning by aggregating multiple client models trained with local noisy or clean samples. On the basis of a federated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jichang Li , Guanbin Li , Hui Cheng , Zicheng Liao , Yizhou Yu

Large training datasets almost always contain examples with inaccurate or incorrect labels. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) tend to overfit training label noise, resulting in poorer model performance in practice. To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chen Gong , Kong Bin , Eric J. Seibel , Xin Wang , Youbing Yin , Qi Song

ConvNets achieve good results when training from clean data, but learning from noisy labels significantly degrades performances and remains challenging. Unlike previous works constrained by many conditions, making them infeasible to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Jiangfan Han , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang

Noisy labels are an unavoidable consequence of labeling processes and detecting them is an important step towards preventing performance degradations in Convolutional Neural Networks. Discarding noisy labels avoids a harmful memorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Training deep neural networks(DNN) with noisy labels is challenging since DNN can easily memorize inaccurate labels, leading to poor generalization ability. Recently, the meta-learning based label correction strategy is widely adopted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

Image classification datasets exhibit a non-negligible fraction of mislabeled examples, often due to human error when one class superficially resembles another. This issue poses challenges in supervised contrastive learning (SCL), where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zijun Long , George Killick , Lipeng Zhuang , Richard McCreadie , Gerardo Aragon Camarasa , Paul Henderson