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Modern, state-of-the-art deep learning approaches yield human like performance in numerous object detection and classification tasks. The foundation for their success is the availability of training datasets of substantially high quantity,…

It is not an exaggeration to say that the recent progress in artificial intelligence technology depends on large-scale and high-quality data. Simultaneously, a prevalent issue exists everywhere: the budget for data labeling is constrained.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yujin Hwang , Won Jo , Juyoung Hong , Yukyung Choi

We propose a meta-learning method for learning from multiple noisy annotators. In many applications such as crowdsourcing services, labels for supervised learning are given by multiple annotators. Since the annotators have different skills…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Taishi Nishiyama , Yasutoshi Ida , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Deep learning is very data hungry, and supervised learning especially requires massive labeled data to work well. Machine listening research often suffers from limited labeled data problem, as human annotations are costly to acquire, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Ho-Hsiang Wu , Chieh-Chi Kao , Qingming Tang , Ming Sun , Brian McFee , Juan Pablo Bello , Chao Wang

Federated learning is one popular paradigm to train a joint model in a distributed, privacy-preserving environment. But partial annotations pose an obstacle meaning that categories of labels are heterogeneous over clients. We propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Malte Tölle , Fernando Navarro , Sebastian Eble , Ivo Wolf , Bjoern Menze , Sandy Engelhardt

Label noise poses an important challenge in machine learning, especially in deep learning, in which large models with high expressive power dominate the field. Models of that kind are prone to memorizing incorrect labels, thereby harming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Julian Lienen , Eyke Hüllermeier

List-wise learning to rank methods are considered to be the state-of-the-art. One of the major problems with these methods is that the ambiguous nature of relevance labels in learning to rank data is ignored. Ambiguity of relevance labels…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Rolf Jagerman , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke

As a part of an embodied agent, Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically used for behavior planning given natural language instructions from the user. However, dealing with ambiguous instructions in real-world environments remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Anastasiia Ivanova , Eva Bakaeva , Zoya Volovikova , Alexey K. Kovalev , Aleksandr I. Panov

Existing truth inference methods in crowdsourcing aim to map redundant labels and items to the ground truth. They treat the ground truth as hidden variables and use statistical or deep learning-based worker behavior models to infer the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Tao Han , Huaixuan Shi , Xinyi Ding , Xiao Ma , Huamao Gu , Yili Fang

Deep networks achieve excellent results on large-scale clean data but degrade significantly when learning from noisy labels. To suppressing the impact of mislabeled data, this paper proposes a conceptually simple yet efficient training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Xiaojiang Peng , Kai Wang , Zhaoyang Zeng , Qing Li , Jianfei Yang , Yu Qiao

A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kyle Hsu , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

We consider the unsupervised learning problem of assigning labels to unlabeled data. A naive approach is to use clustering methods, but this works well only when data is properly clustered and each cluster corresponds to an underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Marthinus Christoffel du Plessis , Masashi Sugiyama

Crowd-sourcing has become a popular means of acquiring labeled data for a wide variety of tasks where humans are more accurate than computers, e.g., labeling images, matching objects, or analyzing sentiment. However, relying solely on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Barzan Mozafari , Purnamrita Sarkar , Michael J. Franklin , Michael I. Jordan , Samuel Madden

Semantic segmentation is a challenging task in the absence of densely labelled data. Only relying on class activation maps (CAM) with image-level labels provides deficient segmentation supervision. Prior works thus consider pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

Class distribution mismatch (CDM) refers to the discrepancy between class distributions in training data and target tasks. Previous methods address this by designing classifiers to categorize classes known during training, while grouping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Pan Du , Wangbo Zhao , Xinai Lu , Nian Liu , Zhikai Li , Chaoyu Gong , Suyun Zhao , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li , Kai Wang , Yang You

Multi-task Learning (MTL) for classification with disjoint datasets aims to explore MTL when one task only has one labeled dataset. In existing methods, for each task, the unlabeled datasets are not fully exploited to facilitate this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yan Hong , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

In real-world scenarios we often need to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is an adequate method to do so, but usually requires datasets labeled for all tasks. We propose a method that can leverage datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Federica Spinola , Philipp Benz , Minhyeong Yu , Tae-hoon Kim

One of the primary catalysts fueling advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is the availability of massive, curated datasets. A commonly used technique to curate such massive datasets is crowdsourcing, where data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Shahana Ibrahim , Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Xiao Fu , Georgios B. Giannakis

Despite the recent advances in multi-task learning of dense prediction problems, most methods rely on expensive labelled datasets. In this paper, we present a label efficient approach and look at jointly learning of multiple dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Wei-Hong Li , Xialei Liu , Hakan Bilen

Crowdsourcing systems have been used to accumulate massive amounts of labeled data for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, because crowdsourced labeling is inherently dynamic and uncertain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Mohammad S. Majdi , Jeffrey J. Rodriguez