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In deep learning (DL) systems, label noise in training datasets often degrades model performance, as models may learn incorrect patterns from mislabeled data. The area of Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL) has introduced methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gordon Lim , Stefan Larson , Kevin Leach

Noisy training data can significantly degrade the performance of language-model-based classifiers, particularly in non-topical classification tasks. In this study we designed a methodological framework to assess the impact of denoising.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Nouran Khallaf , Serge Sharoff

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in node classification tasks but struggle with label noise in real-world data. Existing studies on graph learning with label noise commonly rely on class-dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Suyeon Kim , SeongKu Kang , Dongwoo Kim , Jungseul Ok , Hwanjo Yu

Noisy labels can significantly impact medical image classification, particularly in deep learning, by corrupting learned features. Self-supervised pretraining, which doesn't rely on labeled data, can enhance robustness against noisy labels.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Cristian Linte

This paper considers recognizing products from daily photos, which is an important problem in real-world applications but also challenging due to background clutters, category diversities, noisy labels, etc. We address this problem by two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Qing Li , Xiaojiang Peng , Liangliang Cao , Wenbin Du , Hao Xing , Yu Qiao

Machine learning models are routinely used to support decisions that affect individuals -- be it to screen a patient for a serious illness or to gauge their response to treatment. In these tasks, we are limited to learning models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sujay Nagaraj , Yang Liu , Flavio P. Calmon , Berk Ustun

Performing controlled experiments on noisy data is essential in understanding deep learning across noise levels. Due to the lack of suitable datasets, previous research has only examined deep learning on controlled synthetic label noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Lu Jiang , Di Huang , Mason Liu , Weilong Yang

With the widespread use of machine learning for classification, it becomes increasingly important to be able to use weaker kinds of supervision for tasks in which it is hard to obtain standard labeled data. One such kind of supervision is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Soham Dan , Han Bao , Masashi Sugiyama

Suppose we have a sample of instances paired with binary labels corrupted by arbitrary instance- and label-dependent noise. With sufficiently many such samples, can we optimally classify and rank instances with respect to the noise-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Aditya Krishna Menon , Brendan van Rooyen , Nagarajan Natarajan

Multi-label image classification has generated significant interest in recent years and the performance of such systems often suffers from the not so infrequent occurrence of incorrect or missing labels in the training data. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Zhuolin Jiang , Jan Silovsky , Man-Hung Siu , William Hartmann , Herbert Gish , Sancar Adali

The ability of learning from noisy labels is very useful in many visual recognition tasks, as a vast amount of data with noisy labels are relatively easy to obtain. Traditionally, the label noises have been treated as statistical outliers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Yuncheng Li , Jianchao Yang , Yale Song , Liangliang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Li-Jia Li

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in a wide variety of natural image and medical image computing tasks. However, these achievements indispensably rely on accurately annotated training data. If encountering some…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Cheng Xue , Lequan Yu , Pengfei Chen , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Image classification problems are typically addressed by first collecting examples with candidate labels, second cleaning the candidate labels manually, and third training a deep neural network on the clean examples. The manual labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Fatih Furkan Yilmaz , Reinhard Heckel

We show when maximizing a properly defined $f$-divergence measure with respect to a classifier's predictions and the supervised labels is robust with label noise. Leveraging its variational form, we derive a nice decoupling property for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jiaheng Wei , Yang Liu

We investigate the classification performance of K-nearest neighbors (K-NN) and deep neural networks (DNNs) in the presence of label noise. We first show empirically that a DNN's prediction for a given test example depends on the labels of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Amnon Drory , Oria Ratzon , Shai Avidan , Raja Giryes

Improperly constructed datasets can result in inaccurate inferences. For instance, models trained on biased datasets perform poorly in terms of generalization (i.e., dataset bias). Recent debiasing techniques have successfully achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Sumyeong Ahn , Se-Young Yun

Supervised learning depends on annotated examples, which are taken to be the \emph{ground truth}. But these labels often come from noisy crowdsourcing platforms, like Amazon Mechanical Turk. Practitioners typically collect multiple labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ashish Khetan , Zachary C. Lipton , Anima Anandkumar

Pre-training on large-scale datasets and then fine-tuning on downstream tasks have become a standard practice in deep learning. However, pre-training data often contain label noise that may adversely affect the generalization of the model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hao Chen , Jindong Wang , Ankit Shah , Ran Tao , Hongxin Wei , Xing Xie , Masashi Sugiyama , Bhiksha Raj

With the development of deep learning, medical image classification has been significantly improved. However, deep learning requires massive data with labels. While labeling the samples by human experts is expensive and time-consuming,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Jiarun Liu , Ruirui Li , Chuan Sun

Despite the recent trend of developing and applying neural source code models to software engineering tasks, the quality of such models is insufficient for real-world use. This is because there could be noise in the source code corpora used…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Anh T. V. Dau , Thang Nguyen-Duc , Hoang Thanh-Tung , Nghi D. Q. Bui