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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

A deep neural network trained on noisy labels is known to quickly lose its power to discriminate clean instances from noisy ones. After the early learning phase has ended, the network memorizes the noisy instances, which leads to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jason Z. Lin , Jelena Bradic

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

As an open research topic in the field of deep learning, learning with noisy labels has attracted much attention and grown rapidly over the past ten years. Learning with label noise is crucial for driver distraction behavior recognition, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Linjuan Fan , Di Wen , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Ruiping Liu , Yufan Chen , Junwei Zheng , Jiamin Wu , Xudong Han , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In this paper, we consider the instance segmentation task on a long-tailed dataset, which contains label noise, i.e., some of the annotations are incorrect. There are two main reasons making this case realistic. First, datasets collected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Guanlin Li , Guowen Xu , Tianwei Zhang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be susceptible to memorization or overfitting in the presence of noisily-labelled data. For the problem of robust learning under such noisy data, several algorithms have been proposed. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Deep Patel , P. S. Sastry

We introduce a novel method for training machine learning models in the presence of noisy labels, which are prevalent in domains such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving and have the potential to degrade a model's generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Farooq Ahmad Wani , Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Fabrizio Silvestri

In supervised classification tasks, models are trained to predict a label for each data point. In real-world datasets, these labels are often noisy due to annotation errors. While the impact of label noise on the performance of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ali Hussaini Umar , Franky Kevin Nando Tezoh , Jean Barbier , Santiago Acevedo , Alessandro Laio

Training Deep neural networks (DNNs) on noisy labeled datasets is a challenging problem, because learning on mislabeled examples deteriorates the performance of the network. As the ground truth availability is limited with real-world noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Sree Ram Kamabattula , Kumudha Musini , Babak Namazi , Ganesh Sankaranarayanan , Venkat Devarajan

Many state-of-the-art noisy-label learning methods rely on learning mechanisms that estimate the samples' clean labels during training and discard their original noisy labels. However, this approach prevents the learning of the relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Brandon Smart , Gustavo Carneiro

Learning from noisy labels (LNL) is crucial in deep learning, in which one of the approaches is to identify clean-label samples from poorly-annotated datasets. Such an identification is challenging because the conventional LNL problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Cuong Nguyen , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

The presence of noisy labels in a training dataset can significantly impact the performance of machine learning models. To tackle this issue, researchers have explored methods for Learning with Noisy Labels to identify clean samples and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Sumyeong Ahn , Sihyeon Kim , Jongwoo Ko , Se-Young Yun

Existing research on learning with noisy labels mainly focuses on synthetic label noise. Synthetic noise, though has clean structures which greatly enabled statistical analyses, often fails to model real-world noise patterns. The recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jiaheng Wei , Zhaowei Zhu , Hao Cheng , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Yang Liu

Deep neural networks have incredible capacity and expressibility, and can seemingly memorize any training set. This introduces a problem when training in the presence of noisy labels, as the noisy examples cannot be distinguished from clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Daniel Shwartz , Uri Stern , Daphna Weinshall

Label noise, commonly found in real-world datasets, has a detrimental impact on a model's generalization. To effectively detect incorrectly labeled instances, previous works have mostly relied on distinguishable training signals, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Suyeon Kim , Dongha Lee , SeongKu Kang , Sukang Chae , Sanghwan Jang , Hwanjo Yu

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

Large datasets in NLP suffer from noisy labels, due to erroneous automatic and human annotation procedures. We study the problem of text classification with label noise, and aim to capture this noise through an auxiliary noise model over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Siddhant Garg , Goutham Ramakrishnan , Varun Thumbe

Distant and weak supervision allow to obtain large amounts of labeled training data quickly and cheaply, but these automatic annotations tend to contain a high amount of errors. A popular technique to overcome the negative effects of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Michael A. Hedderich , Dawei Zhu , Dietrich Klakow

Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality manual annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan Kankanhalli

Data lies at the core of modern deep learning. The impressive performance of supervised learning is built upon a base of massive accurately labeled data. However, in some real-world applications, accurate labeling might not be viable;…