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Learning with noisy labels is one of the hottest problems in weakly-supervised learning. Based on memorization effects of deep neural networks, training on small-loss instances becomes very promising for handling noisy labels. This fosters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Xingrui Yu , Bo Han , Jiangchao Yao , Gang Niu , Ivor W. Tsang , Masashi Sugiyama

Collaborative learning has successfully applied knowledge transfer to guide a pool of small student networks towards robust local minima. However, previous approaches typically struggle with drastically aggravated student homogenization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Shaoxiong Feng , Hongshen Chen , Xuancheng Ren , Zhuoye Ding , Kan Li , Xu Sun

Modern large language model (LLM) alignment techniques rely on human feedback, but it is unclear whether these techniques fundamentally limit the capabilities of aligned LLMs. In particular, it is unknown if it is possible to align…

Weakly-supervised learning is a paradigm for alleviating the scarcity of labeled data by leveraging lower-quality but larger-scale supervision signals. While existing work mainly focuses on utilizing a certain type of weak supervision, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Yivan Zhang , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Masashi Sugiyama

Joining multiple decision-makers together is a powerful way to obtain more sophisticated decision-making systems, but requires to address the questions of division of labor and specialization. We investigate in how far information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Heinke Hihn , Daniel A. Braun

Adversarial examples have appeared as a ubiquitous property of machine learning models where bounded adversarial perturbation could mislead the models to make arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Such examples provide a way to assess the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zhuolin Yang , Zhaoxi Chen , Tiffany Cai , Xinyun Chen , Bo Li , Yuandong Tian

Neural networks have demonstrated significant accuracy across various domains, yet their vulnerability to subtle input alterations remains a persistent challenge. Conventional methods like data augmentation, while effective to some extent,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Training deep neural networks requires massive amounts of training data, but for many tasks only limited labeled data is available. This makes weak supervision attractive, using weak or noisy signals like the output of heuristic methods or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Mostafa Dehghani , Aliaksei Severyn , Sascha Rothe , Jaap Kamps

Most existing policy learning solutions require the learning agents to receive high-quality supervision signals such as well-designed rewards in reinforcement learning (RL) or high-quality expert demonstrations in behavioral cloning (BC).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Jingkang Wang , Hongyi Guo , Zhaowei Zhu , Yang Liu

A semantic parser maps natural language commands (NLs) from the users to executable meaning representations (MRs), which are later executed in certain environment to obtain user-desired results. The fully-supervised training of such parser…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Ansong Ni , Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

One challenge with neural ranking is the need for a large amount of manually-labeled relevance judgments for training. In contrast with prior work, we examine the use of weak supervision sources for training that yield pseudo query-document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Sean MacAvaney , Andrew Yates , Kai Hui , Ophir Frieder

In this paper, we propose a method for training neural networks when we have a large set of data with weak labels and a small amount of data with true labels. In our proposed model, we train two neural networks: a target network, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-01 Mostafa Dehghani , Aliaksei Severyn , Sascha Rothe , Jaap Kamps

Weakly supervised data are widespread and have attracted much attention. However, since label quality is often difficult to guarantee, sometimes the use of weakly supervised data will lead to unsatisfactory performance, i.e., performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li , Ming Li , Jin-Feng Yi , Bo-Wen Zhou , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Hierarchical text classification, which aims to classify text documents into a given hierarchy, is an important task in many real-world applications. Recently, deep neural models are gaining increasing popularity for text classification due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Yu Meng , Jiaming Shen , Chao Zhang , Jiawei Han

As large language models advance toward superhuman performance, ensuring their alignment with human values and abilities grows increasingly complex. Weak-to-strong generalization offers a promising approach by leveraging predictions from…

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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) training can utilize multiple experts as teacher models, each trained on a specific domain or accent. Teacher models may be opaque in nature since their architecture may be not be known or their training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-29 Aakriti Agrawal , Milind Rao , Anit Kumar Sahu , Gopinath Chennupati , Andreas Stolcke

The success of deep learning is usually accompanied by the growth in neural network depth. However, the traditional training method only supervises the neural network at its last layer and propagates the supervision layer-by-layer, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Linfeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Junbo Zhang , Runpei Dong , Kaisheng Ma

Correspondence learning is a fundamental problem in robotics, which aims to learn a mapping between state, action pairs of agents of different dynamics or embodiments. However, current correspondence learning methods either leverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zihan Wang , Zhangjie Cao , Yilun Hao , Dorsa Sadigh

We observe that incorporating a shared layer in a mixture-of-experts can lead to performance degradation. This leads us to hypothesize that learning shared features poses challenges in deep learning, potentially caused by the same feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sejik Park

Weak-to-strong generalization (W2SG) refers to the phenomenon where a strong student model, trained on a dataset labeled by a weak teacher, ultimately outperforms the teacher on the target task. Recent studies attribute this performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Gengze Xu , Wei Yao , Ziqiao Wang , Yong Liu