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Training data plays an essential role in modern applications of machine learning. However, gathering labeled training data is time-consuming. Therefore, labeling is often outsourced to less experienced users, or completely automated. This…

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Pretrained language models have improved zero-shot text classification by allowing the transfer of semantic knowledge from the training data in order to classify among specific label sets in downstream tasks. We propose a simple way to…

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Label errors are a common issue in machine learning datasets, particularly for tasks such as Named Entity Recognition. Such label errors might hurt model training, affect evaluation results, and lead to an inaccurate assessment of model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mashael Al-Duwais , Hend Al-Khalifa , Abdulmalik Al-Salman

Label noise is ubiquitous in various machine learning scenarios such as self-labeling with model predictions and erroneous data annotation. Many existing approaches are based on heuristics such as sample losses, which might not be flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhihao Wang , Zongyu Lin , Peiqi Liu , Guidong ZHeng , Junjie Wen , Xianxin Chen , Yujun Chen , Zhilin Yang

So far, multi-label classification algorithms have been evaluated using statistical methods that do not consider the semantics of the considered classes and that fully depend on abstract computations such as Bayesian Reasoning. Currently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Houcemeddine Turki , Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb , Mohamed Ben Aouicha

Recent deep neural networks (DNNs) can easily overfit to biased training data with noisy labels. Label correction strategy is commonly used to alleviate this issue by designing a method to identity suspected noisy labels and then correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yichen Wu , Jun Shu , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify mentions of named entities in an unstructured text and classify them into predefined named entity classes. While deep learning-based pre-trained language models help to achieve good predictive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ali Osman Berk Sapci , Oznur Tastan , Reyyan Yeniterzi

Structured classification tasks such as sequence labeling and dependency parsing have seen much interest by the Natural Language Processing and the machine learning communities. Several online learning algorithms were adapted for structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Avihai Mejer , Koby Crammer

Modeling complex subjective tasks in Natural Language Processing, such as recognizing emotion and morality, is considerably challenging due to significant variation in human annotations. This variation often reflects reasonable differences…

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Acquiring and training on large-scale labeled data can be impractical due to cost constraints. Additionally, the use of small training datasets can result in considerable variability in model outcomes, overfitting, and learning of spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiashu Tao , Reza Shokri

Time series classification faces two unavoidable problems. One is partial feature information and the other is poor label quality, which may affect model performance. To address the above issues, we create a label correction method to time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Luxuan Yang , Ting Gao , Wei Wei , Min Dai , Cheng Fang , Jinqiao Duan

In-context learning (ICL) for text classification, which uses a few input-label demonstrations to describe a task, has demonstrated impressive performance on large language models (LLMs). However, the selection of in-context demonstrations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ye Jiang , Taihang Wang , Youzheng Liu , Yimin Wang , Yuhan Xia , Yunfei Long

Unravelling hidden patterns in datasets is a classical problem with many potential applications. In this paper, we present a challenge whose objective is to discover nonlinear relationships in noisy cloud of points. If a set of point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-31 Terry Lyons , Imanol Perez Arribas

In this paper, we present the first experiments using neural network models for the task of error detection in learner writing. We perform a systematic comparison of alternative compositional architectures and propose a framework for error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Marek Rei , Helen Yannakoudakis

To collect large scale annotated data, it is inevitable to introduce label noise, i.e., incorrect class labels. To be robust against label noise, many successful methods rely on the noisy classifiers (i.e., models trained on the noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Songzhu Zheng , Pengxiang Wu , Aman Goswami , Mayank Goswami , Dimitris Metaxas , Chao Chen

Label noise in datasets could significantly damage the performance and robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on these datasets. As the size of modern DNNs grows, there is a growing demand for automated tools for detecting such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Dang Huu-Tien , Minh-Phuong Nguyen , Naoya Inoue

Machine learning classifiers rely on loss functions for performance evaluation, often on a private (hidden) dataset. In a recent line of research, label inference was introduced as the problem of reconstructing the ground truth labels of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Abhinav Aggarwal , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Zekun Xu , Oluwaseyi Feyisetan , Nathanael Teissier

Label noise in the sense of incorrect labels is present in many real-world data sets and is known to severely limit the generalizability of deep learning models. In the field of remote sensing, however, automated treatment of label noise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Felix Kröber , Genc Hoxha , Ribana Roscher

Many modern applications deal with multi-label data, such as functional categorizations of genes, image labeling and text categorization. Classification of such data with a large number of labels and latent dependencies among them is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Zahra Ahmadi , Stefan Kramer

Large language models (LLMs) are able to solve various tasks with only a few demonstrations utilizing their in-context learning (ICL) abilities. However, LLMs often rely on their pre-trained semantic priors of demonstrations rather than on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Joonwon Jang , Sanghwan Jang , Wonbin Kweon , Minjin Jeon , Hwanjo Yu