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Improper or erroneous labelling can pose a hindrance to reliable generalization for supervised learning. This can have negative consequences, especially for critical fields such as healthcare. We propose an effective new approach for…

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Falsely annotated samples, also known as noisy labels, can significantly harm the performance of deep learning models. Two main approaches for learning with noisy labels are global noise estimation and data filtering. Global noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yuval Grinberg , Nimrod Harel , Jacob Goldberger , Ofir Lindenbaum

We find that the way we choose to represent data labels can have a profound effect on the quality of trained models. For example, training an image classifier to regress audio labels rather than traditional categorical probabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Boyuan Chen , Yu Li , Sunand Raghupathi , Hod Lipson

The conventional success of textual classification relies on annotated data, and the new paradigm of pre-trained language models (PLMs) still requires a few labeled data for downstream tasks. However, in real-world applications, label noise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Dan Qiao , Chenchen Dai , Yuyang Ding , Juntao Li , Qiang Chen , Wenliang Chen , Min Zhang

We propose a novel framework to perform classification via deep learning in the presence of noisy annotations. When trained on noisy labels, deep neural networks have been observed to first fit the training data with clean labels during an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sheng Liu , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Narges Razavian , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Label noise is one of the key factors that lead to the poor generalization of deep learning models. Existing label-noise learning methods usually assume that the ground-truth classes of the training data are balanced. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yang Lu , Yiliang Zhang , Bo Han , Yiu-ming Cheung , Hanzi Wang

Learning from noisy labels is an important and long-standing problem in machine learning for real applications. One of the main research lines focuses on learning a label corrector to purify potential noisy labels. However, these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jian Chen , Ruiyi Zhang , Tong Yu , Rohan Sharma , Zhiqiang Xu , Tong Sun , Changyou Chen

Machine learning continues to grow in popularity due to its ability to learn increasingly complex tasks. However, for many supervised models, the shift in a data distribution or the appearance of a new event can result in a severe decrease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ryan King , Bobak Mortazavi

One crucial factor behind the success of deep learning lies in the implicit bias induced by noise inherent in gradient-based training algorithms. Motivated by empirical observations that training with noisy labels improves model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tongcheng Zhang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Mingze Wang , Andi Han , Wei Huang , Taiji Suzuki , Junchi Yan

Noisy Labels are commonly present in data sets automatically collected from the internet, mislabeled by non-specialist annotators, or even specialists in a challenging task, such as in the medical field. Although deep learning models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Filipe R. Cordeiro , Gustavo Carneiro

Label distribution learning (LDL) is a novel paradigm that describe the samples by label distribution of a sample. However, acquiring LDL dataset is costly and time-consuming, which leads to the birth of incomplete label distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiecheng Jiang , Jiawei Tang , Jiahao Jiang , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Yuheng Jia

Transfer learning aims to improve learning in target domain by borrowing knowledge from a related but different source domain. To reduce the distribution shift between source and target domains, recent methods have focused on exploring…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-09 Xiyu Yu , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Kun Zhang , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Dacheng Tao

Training deep neural networks with noisy labels remains a significant challenge, often leading to degraded performance. Existing methods for handling label noise typically rely on either transition matrix, noise detection, or meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhanhui Lin , Yanlin Liu , Sanping Zhou

Label embedding is a framework for multiclass classification problems where each label is represented by a distinct vector of some fixed dimension, and training involves matching model output to the vector representing the correct label.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jianxin Zhang , Clayton Scott

Large scale image classification datasets often contain noisy labels. We take a principled probabilistic approach to modelling input-dependent, also known as heteroscedastic, label noise in these datasets. We place a multivariate Normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Mark Collier , Basil Mustafa , Efi Kokiopoulou , Rodolphe Jenatton , Jesse Berent

Collecting labeled data to train deep neural networks is costly and even impractical for many tasks. Thus, research effort has been focused in automatically curated datasets or unsupervised and weakly supervised learning. The common problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Nam Le , Jean-Marc Odobez

In many applications the process of generating label information is expensive and time consuming. We present a new method that combines active and semi-supervised deep learning to achieve high generalization performance from a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Matthias Rottmann , Karsten Kahl , Hanno Gottschalk

The robustness of supervised deep learning-based medical image classification is significantly undermined by label noise. Although several methods have been proposed to enhance classification performance in the presence of noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bidur Khanal , Tianhong Dai , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian Linte

Weakly-supervised learning is a paradigm for alleviating the scarcity of labeled data by leveraging lower-quality but larger-scale supervision signals. While existing work mainly focuses on utilizing a certain type of weak supervision, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Yivan Zhang , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Masashi Sugiyama

Computer vision systems recently made a big leap thanks to deep neural networks. However, these systems require correctly labeled large datasets in order to be trained properly, which is very difficult to obtain for medical applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy , Şaban Gönül , Banu Turgut , Berker Bakbak