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We present a method for training a neural network to perform image denoising without access to clean training examples or access to paired noisy training examples. Our method requires only a single noisy realization of each training example…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Nick Moran , Dan Schmidt , Yu Zhong , Patrick Coady

The field of information retrieval often works with limited and noisy data in an attempt to classify documents into subjective categories, e.g., relevance, sentiment and controversy. We typically quantify a notion of agreement to understand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-14 John Foley

All reinforcement learning algorithms must handle the trade-off between exploration and exploitation. Many state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning methods use noise in the action selection, such as Gaussian noise in policy gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Trevor Barron , Oliver Obst , Heni Ben Amor

We investigate the problem of machine learning with mislabeled training data. We try to make the effects of mislabeled training better understood through analysis of the basic model and equations that characterize the problem. This includes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Herbert Gish , Jan Silovsky , Man-Ling Sung , Man-Hung Siu , William Hartmann , Zhuolin Jiang

Models that adapt their predictions based on some given contexts, also known as in-context learning, have become ubiquitous in recent years. We propose to study the behavior of such models when data is contaminated by noise. Towards this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chen Shapira , Dan Rosenbaum

Learning, whether natural or artificial, is a process of selection. It starts with a set of candidate options and selects the more successful ones. In the case of machine learning the selection is done based on empirical estimates of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yevgeny Seldin

We propose a novel framework to perform classification via deep learning in the presence of noisy annotations. When trained on noisy labels, deep neural networks have been observed to first fit the training data with clean labels during an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sheng Liu , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Narges Razavian , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

We study a sequential social learning model in which there is uncertainty about the informativeness of a common signal-generating process. Rational agents arrive in order and make decisions based on the past actions of others and their…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-01 Wanying Huang

Experts classifying data are often imprecise. Recently, several models have been proposed to train classifiers using the noisy labels generated by these experts. How to choose between these models? In such situations, the true labels are…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-15 Rafael Izbicki , Rafael Bassi Stern

Choosing a suitable loss function is essential when learning by empirical risk minimisation. In many practical cases, the datasets used for training a classifier may contain incorrect labels, which prompts the interest for using loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Fábio C. C. Meneghetti , Sueli I. R. Costa

The robustness of supervised deep learning-based medical image classification is significantly undermined by label noise. Although several methods have been proposed to enhance classification performance in the presence of noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bidur Khanal , Tianhong Dai , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian Linte

This work addresses various open questions in the theory of active learning for nonparametric classification. Our contributions are both statistical and algorithmic: -We establish new minimax-rates for active learning under common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-20 Andrea Locatelli , Alexandra Carpentier , Samory Kpotufe

We study the problem of aggregation noisy labels. Usually, it is solved by proposing a stochastic model for the process of generating noisy labels and then estimating the model parameters using the observed noisy labels. A traditional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Valentina Fedorova , Gleb Gusev , Pavel Serdyukov

Extracting noisy or incorrectly labeled samples from a labeled dataset with hard/difficult samples is an important yet under-explored topic. Two general and often independent lines of work exist, one focuses on addressing noisy labels, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Mahsa Forouzesh , Patrick Thiran

Iterative self-training (self-distillation) repeatedly refits a model on pseudo-labels generated by its own predictions. We study this procedure in overparameterized linear regression: an initial estimator is trained on noisy labels, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Mingqi Wu , Archer Y. Yang , Qiang Sun

Neural network based generative models with discriminative components are a powerful approach for semi-supervised learning. However, these techniques a) cannot account for model uncertainty in the estimation of the model's discriminative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-30 Jonathan Gordon , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Active Learning (AL) has garnered significant interest across various application domains where labeling training data is costly. AL provides a framework that helps practitioners query informative samples for annotation by oracles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Pouya Ahadi , Blair Winograd , Camille Zaug , Karunesh Arora , Lijun Wang , Kamran Paynabar

We consider an active learning setting where the algorithm has access to a large pool of unlabeled data and a small pool of labeled data. In each iteration, the algorithm chooses few unlabeled data points and obtains their labels from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande

In learning tasks with label noise, improving model robustness against overfitting is a pivotal challenge because the model eventually memorizes labels, including the noisy ones. Identifying the samples with noisy labels and preventing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani , Reza Nasirigerdeh , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

The performance of machine learning models often relies on large labeled datasets; however, data collected from diverse sources can contain label noise. Recent work has shown that, in noisy settings, there may exist a subset of the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Kumar Shubham , Pavan Karjol , Kiran M K , Prathosh AP