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The negative impact of label noise is well studied in classical supervised learning yet remains an open research question in meta-learning. Meta-learners aim to adapt to unseen learning tasks by learning a good initial model in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jeroen M. Galjaard , Robert Birke , Juan Perez , Lydia Y. Chen

The existence of noisy labels in the dataset causes significant performance degradation for deep neural networks (DNNs). To address this problem, we propose a Meta Soft Label Generation algorithm called MSLG, which can jointly generate soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

Labor-intensive labeling becomes a bottleneck in developing computer vision algorithms based on deep learning. For this reason, dealing with imperfect labels has increasingly gained attention and has become an active field of study. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Heewon Kim , Hyun Sung Chang , Kiho Cho , Jaeyun Lee , Bohyung Han

Large datasets in NLP suffer from noisy labels, due to erroneous automatic and human annotation procedures. We study the problem of text classification with label noise, and aim to capture this noise through an auxiliary noise model over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Siddhant Garg , Goutham Ramakrishnan , Varun Thumbe

Incorrect labels in training data occur when human annotators make mistakes or when the data is generated via weak or distant supervision. It has been shown that complex noise-handling techniques - by modeling, cleaning or filtering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Dawei Zhu , Michael A. Hedderich , Fangzhou Zhai , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Dietrich Klakow

The success of deep learning requires high-quality annotated and massive data. However, the size and the quality of a dataset are usually a trade-off in practice, as data collection and cleaning are expensive and time-consuming. In…

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Learning against label noise is a vital topic to guarantee a reliable performance for deep neural networks. Recent research usually refers to dynamic noise modeling with model output probabilities and loss values, and then separates clean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-13 Yingsong Huang , Bing Bai , Shengwei Zhao , Kun Bai , Fei Wang

Learning from noisy labels (LNL) is a challenge that arises in many real-world scenarios where collected training data can contain incorrect or corrupted labels. Most existing solutions identify noisy labels and adopt active learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Bo Yuan , Yulin Chen , Yin Zhang , Wei Jiang

Real-world data often exhibits long-tailed distributions with heavy class imbalance, posing great challenges for deep recognition models. We identify a persisting dilemma on the value of labels in the context of imbalanced learning: on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yuzhe Yang , Zhi Xu

Most meta-learning methods assume that the (very small) context set used to establish a new task at test time is passively provided. In some settings, however, it is feasible to actively select which points to label; the potential gain from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Wonho Bae , Jing Wang , Danica J. Sutherland

We investigate the problem of machine learning with mislabeled training data. We try to make the effects of mislabeled training better understood through analysis of the basic model and equations that characterize the problem. This includes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Herbert Gish , Jan Silovsky , Man-Ling Sung , Man-Hung Siu , William Hartmann , Zhuolin Jiang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have yielded impressive performance on various tasks, yet they often depend on high-quality feedback that can be costly. Self-refinement methods attempt to leverage LLMs' internal evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hikaru Asano , Tadashi Kozuno , Yukino Baba

Noise in data appears to be inevitable in most real-world machine learning applications and would cause severe overfitting problems. Not only can data features contain noise, but labels are also prone to be noisy due to human input. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Weipeng Huang , Qin Li , Yang Xiao , Cheng Qiao , Tie Cai , Junwei Liang , Neil J. Hurley , Guangyuan Piao

Recent studies on learning with noisy labels have shown remarkable performance by exploiting a small clean dataset. In particular, model agnostic meta-learning-based label correction methods further improve performance by correcting noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Seong Min Kye , Kwanghee Choi , Joonyoung Yi , Buru Chang

A variety of modern applications exhibit multi-view multi-label learning, where each sample has multi-view features, and multiple labels are correlated via common views. Current methods usually fail to directly deal with the setting where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Zhiwei Li , Zijian Yang , Lu Sun , Mineichi Kudo , Kego Kimura

Statistically consistent methods based on the noise transition matrix ($T$) offer a theoretically grounded solution to Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL), with guarantees of convergence to the optimal clean-data classifier. In practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Chen Feng , Zhuo Zhi , Zhao Huang , Jiawei Ge , Ling Xiao , Nicu Sebe , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

Multi-label classification is a widely encountered problem in daily life, where an instance can be associated with multiple classes. In theory, this is a supervised learning method that requires a large amount of labeling. However,…

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The prevalence of noisy labels in real-world datasets poses a significant impediment to the effective deployment of deep learning models. While meta-learning strategies have emerged as a promising approach for addressing this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Mengyang Li

Training a deep neural network with noisy labels could reduce data annotation cost but may introduce noise into the learned model. In meta label correction approaches, an additional meta model besides the main model is trained with a small,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ba Hoang Anh Nguyen , Viet Cuong Ta

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