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The memorization effect of deep neural networks (DNNs) plays a pivotal role in recent label noise learning methods. To exploit this effect, the model prediction-based methods have been widely adopted, which aim to exploit the outputs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chuang Zhang , Li Shen , Jian Yang , Chen Gong

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) rely on inherent fluctuations in their internal parameters (weights and biases) to effectively navigate the complex optimization landscape and achieve robust performance. While these fluctuations are recognized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Darsh Pareek , Umesh Kumar , Ruthu Rao , Ravi Janjam

Neural networks have a number of shortcomings. Amongst the severest ones is the sensitivity to distribution shifts which allows models to be easily fooled into wrong predictions by small perturbations to inputs that are often imperceivable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

Empirical studies suggest that machine learning models often rely on features, such as the background, that may be spuriously correlated with the label only during training time, resulting in poor accuracy during test-time. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Anders Andreassen , Behnam Neyshabur

While deep learning has resulted in major breakthroughs in many application domains, the frameworks commonly used in deep learning remain fragile to artificially-crafted and imperceptible changes in the data. In response to this fragility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Alexander Robey , Hamed Hassani , George J. Pappas

Noisy labels are very common in deep supervised learning. Although many studies tend to improve the robustness of deep training for noisy labels, rare works focus on theoretically explaining the training behaviors of learning with noisily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Yi Xu , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin

The memorization effect of deep neural network (DNN) plays a pivotal role in many state-of-the-art label-noise learning methods. To exploit this property, the early stopping trick, which stops the optimization at the early stage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yingbin Bai , Erkun Yang , Bo Han , Yanhua Yang , Jiatong Li , Yinian Mao , Gang Niu , Tongliang Liu

Spurious correlations are a major source of errors for machine learning models, in particular when aiming for group-level fairness. It has been recently shown that a powerful approach to combat spurious correlations is to re-train the last…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Humza Wajid Hameed , Geraldin Nanfack , Eugene Belilovsky

Neural network classifiers can largely rely on simple spurious features, such as backgrounds, to make predictions. However, even in these cases, we show that they still often learn core features associated with the desired attributes of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Polina Kirichenko , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) enforces supervised information only at the output layer, and hidden layers are trained by back propagating the prediction error from the output layer without explicit supervision. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Zhuolin Jiang , Yaming Wang , Larry Davis , Walt Andrews , Viktor Rozgic

Despite the success of machine learning applications in science, industry, and society in general, many approaches are known to be non-robust, often relying on spurious correlations to make predictions. Spuriousness occurs when some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Chun-Hao Chang , George Alexandru Adam , Anna Goldenberg

Trained with a sufficiently large training and testing dataset, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are expected to generalize. However, inputs may deviate from the training dataset distribution in real deployments. This is a fundamental issue with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yan Xiao , Yun Lin , Ivan Beschastnikh , Changsheng Sun , David S. Rosenblum , Jin Song Dong

This paper investigates the dynamics of a deep neural network (DNN) learning interactions. Previous studies have discovered and mathematically proven that given each input sample, a well-trained DNN usually only encodes a small number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Junpeng Zhang , Qing Li , Liang Lin , Quanshi Zhang

Nowadays, deep learning methods, especially the convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have shown impressive performance on extracting abstract and high-level features from the hyperspectral image. However, general training process of CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zhiqiang Gong , Ping Zhong , Weidong Hu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have two key deficiencies, their dependence on high precision computing and their inability to perform sequential learning, that is, when a DNN is trained on a first task and the same DNN is trained on the next…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ruthvik Vaila , John Chiasson , Vishal Saxena

Deep neural networks are efficient at learning the data distribution if it is sufficiently sampled. However, they can be strongly biased by non-relevant factors implicitly incorporated in the training data. These include operational biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Kirill Sirotkin , Pablo Carballeira , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo

Deep neural networks are capable of training fast and generalizing well within many domains. Despite their promising performance, deep networks have shown sensitivities to perturbations of their inputs (e.g., adversarial examples) and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Justin Goodwin , Olivia Brown , Victoria Helus

Deep Neural Networks are well known for efficiently fitting training data, yet experiencing poor generalization capabilities whenever some kind of bias dominates over the actual task labels, resulting in models learning "shortcuts". In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Pietro Morerio , Ruggero Ragonesi , Vittorio Murino

To improve predictive models for STEM applications, supplemental physics-based features computed from input parameters are introduced into single and multiple layers of a deep neural network (DNN). While many studies focus on informing DNNs…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Nicholus R. Clinkinbeard , Nicole N. Hashemi

Neural networks (NNs) are primarily developed within the frequentist statistical framework. Nevertheless, frequentist NNs lack the capability to provide uncertainties in the predictions, and hence their robustness can not be adequately…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Nastaran Dabiran , Brandon Robinson , Rimple Sandhu , Mohammad Khalil , Dominique Poirel , Abhijit Sarkar