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Deep learning with noisy labels presents significant challenges. In this work, we theoretically characterize the role of label noise from a feature learning perspective. Specifically, we consider a signal-noise data distribution, where each…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of computer vision tasks, where massive labeled images are routinely required for model optimization. Yet, the data collected from the open world are unavoidably…

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Enhancing noisy speech is an important task to restore its quality and to improve its intelligibility. In traditional non-machine-learning (ML) based approaches the parameters required for noise reduction are estimated blindly from the…

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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

Large training datasets almost always contain examples with inaccurate or incorrect labels. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) tend to overfit training label noise, resulting in poorer model performance in practice. To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chen Gong , Kong Bin , Eric J. Seibel , Xin Wang , Youbing Yin , Qi Song

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…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on large-scale datasets have exhibited significant performance in image classification. Many large-scale datasets are collected from websites, however they tend to contain inaccurate labels that are…

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Datasets with significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels present challenges for training accurate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We propose a new perspective for understanding DNN generalization for such datasets, by…

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This study explores the robustness of label noise classifiers, aiming to enhance model resilience against noisy data in complex real-world scenarios. Label noise in supervised learning, characterized by erroneous or imprecise labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Cheng Zeng , Yixuan Xu , Jiaqi Tian

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for node classification on graphs. The vast majority of existing works assume that genuine node labels are always provided for training. However, there has been very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Yayong Li , Jie yin , Ling Chen

Large datasets often have unreliable labels-such as those obtained from Amazon's Mechanical Turk or social media platforms-and classifiers trained on mislabeled datasets often exhibit poor performance. We present a simple, effective…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) fail to learn effectively under label noise and have been shown to memorize random labels which affect their generalization performance. We consider learning in isolation, using one-hot encoded labels as the sole…

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Deep learning has outperformed other machine learning algorithms in a variety of tasks, and as a result, it is widely used. However, like other machine learning algorithms, deep learning, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in…

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Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm where clients collaboratively train a model using their local (human-generated) datasets. While existing studies focus on FL algorithm development to tackle data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shuqi Ke , Chao Huang , Xin Liu

Label noise poses a serious threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). Employing robust loss functions which reconcile fitting ability with robustness is a simple but effective strategy to handle this problem. However, the widely-used static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xiu-Chuan Li , Xiaobo Xia , Fei Zhu , Tongliang Liu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Image classification systems recently made a giant leap with the advancement of deep neural networks. However, these systems require an excessive amount of labeled data to be adequately trained. Gathering a correctly annotated dataset is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

The notion of neural collapse refers to several emergent phenomena that have been empirically observed across various canonical classification problems. During the terminal phase of training a deep neural network, the feature embedding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Duc Anh Nguyen , Ron Levie , Julian Lienen , Gitta Kutyniok , Eyke Hüllermeier

Deep neural network can easily overfit to even noisy labels due to its high capacity, which degrades the generalization performance of a model. To overcome this issue, we propose a new approach for learning from noisy labels (LNL) via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Seulki Park , Hwanjun Song , Daeho Um , Dae Ung Jo , Sangdoo Yun , Jin Young Choi

A recently-proposed technique called self-adaptive training augments modern neural networks by allowing them to adjust training labels on the fly, to avoid overfitting to samples that may be mislabeled or otherwise non-representative. By…

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