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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

In this paper, we propose a method for training neural networks when we have a large set of data with weak labels and a small amount of data with true labels. In our proposed model, we train two neural networks: a target network, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-01 Mostafa Dehghani , Aliaksei Severyn , Sascha Rothe , Jaap Kamps

Noisy labels damage the performance of deep networks. For robust learning, a prominent two-stage pipeline alternates between eliminating possible incorrect labels and semi-supervised training. However, discarding part of noisy labels could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Mingcai Chen , Hao Cheng , Yuntao Du , Ming Xu , Wenyu Jiang , Chongjun Wang

Learning with noisy labels remains challenging because over-parameterized networks memorize corrupted supervision. Meta-learning-based sample reweighting mitigates this by using a small clean subset to guide training, yet its behavior and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yiming Zhang , Chester Holtz , Gal Mishne , Alex Cloninger

Training deep networks with noisy labels leads to poor generalization and degraded accuracy due to overfitting to label noise. Existing approaches for learning with noisy labels often rely on the availability of a clean subset of data. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 David Szczecina , Nicholas Pellegrino , Paul Fieguth

In this paper, we introduced the novel concept of advisor network to address the problem of noisy labels in image classification. Deep neural networks (DNN) are prone to performance reduction and overfitting problems on training data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Simone Ricci , Tiberio Uricchio , Alberto Del Bimbo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to over-fit a dataset when being trained with noisy labels for a long enough time. To overcome this problem, we present a simple and effective method self-ensemble label filtering (SELF) to…

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Multi-view learning methods often focus on improving decision accuracy while neglecting the decision uncertainty, which significantly restricts their applications in safety-critical scenarios. To address this, trusted multi-view learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yilin Zhang , Cai Xu , Han Jiang , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Xiaofei He , Murat Sensoy

Deep learning-based solutions for semantic segmentation suffer from significant performance degradation when tested on data with different characteristics than what was used during the training. Adapting the models using annotated data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xingchen Zhao , Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Abhinav Rajvanshi , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera

Distantly supervised named entity recognition (DS-NER) efficiently reduces labor costs but meanwhile intrinsically suffers from the label noise due to the strong assumption of distant supervision. Typically, the wrongly labeled instances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Xinghua Zhang , Bowen Yu , Tingwen Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Jiawei Sheng , Mengge Xue , Hongbo Xu

In this paper, we address the problem of effectively self-training neural networks in a low-resource setting. Self-training is frequently used to automatically increase the amount of training data. However, in a low-resource scenario, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Debjit Paul , Mittul Singh , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

In many applications, training machine learning models involves using large amounts of human-annotated data. Obtaining precise labels for the data is expensive. Instead, training with weak supervision provides a low-cost alternative. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

Distant supervision provides a means to create a large number of weakly labeled data at low cost for relation classification. However, the resulting labeled instances are very noisy, containing data with wrong labels. Many approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhenzhen Li , Jian-Yun Nie , Benyou Wang , Pan Du , Yuhan Zhang , Lixin Zou , Dongsheng Li

Deep neural networks have shown impressive performance in supervised learning, enabled by their ability to fit well to the provided training data. However, their performance is largely dependent on the quality of the training data and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Abhishek Kumar , Ehsan Amid

Deep neural networks are highly susceptible to overfitting noisy labels, which leads to degraded performance. Existing methods address this issue by employing manually defined criteria, aiming to achieve optimal partitioning in each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenzhen Zhang , Debo Cheng , Guangquan Lu , Bo Zhou , Jiaye Li , Shichao Zhang

Noisy labels are ubiquitous in real-world datasets, which poses a challenge for robustly training deep neural networks (DNNs) since DNNs can easily overfit to the noisy labels. Most recent efforts have been devoted to defending noisy labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Pengfei Chen , Benben Liao , Guangyong Chen , Shengyu Zhang

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

To alleviate human efforts from obtaining large-scale annotations, Semi-Supervised Relation Extraction methods aim to leverage unlabeled data in addition to learning from limited samples. Existing self-training methods suffer from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Xuming Hu , Chenwei Zhang , Fukun Ma , Chenyao Liu , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu

Deep learning has made many remarkable achievements in many fields but suffers from noisy labels in datasets. The state-of-the-art learning with noisy label method Co-teaching and Co-teaching+ confronts the noisy label by mutual-information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Jiarun Liu , Daguang Jiang , Yukun Yang , Ruirui Li

Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition (DS-NER) effectively alleviates the data scarcity problem in NER by automatically generating training samples. Unfortunately, the distant supervision may induce noisy labels, thus undermining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Xiaoye Qu , Jun Zeng , Daizong Liu , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai , Pan Zhou