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In reinforcement learning (RL), temporal difference (TD) errors are widely adopted for optimizing value and policy functions. However, since the TD error is defined by a bootstrap method, its computation tends to be noisy and destabilize…

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Low-frequency word prediction remains a challenge in modern neural machine translation (NMT) systems. Recent adaptive training methods promote the output of infrequent words by emphasizing their weights in the overall training objectives.…

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Anomaly detection for tabular data has been a long-standing unsupervised learning problem that remains a major challenge for current deep learning models. Recently, in-context learning has emerged as a new paradigm that has shifted efforts…

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Consistency Training (CT) has recently emerged as a strong alternative to diffusion models for image generation. However, non-distillation CT often suffers from high variance and instability, motivating ongoing research into its training…

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The availability of large labeled datasets has allowed Convolutional Network models to achieve impressive recognition results. However, in many settings manual annotation of the data is impractical; instead our data has noisy labels, i.e.…

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We investigate the impact of entropy change in deep learning systems by noise injection at different levels, including the embedding space and the image. The series of models that employ our methodology are collectively known as Noisy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiaowei Yu , Zhe Huang , Minheng Chen , Lu Zhang , Tianming Liu , Dajiang Zhu

Natural language understanding (NLU) models often rely on dataset biases rather than intended task-relevant features to achieve high performance on specific datasets. As a result, these models perform poorly on datasets outside the training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Yougang Lyu , Piji Li , Yechang Yang , Maarten de Rijke , Pengjie Ren , Yukun Zhao , Dawei Yin , Zhaochun Ren

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) plays a vital role in many industrial applications. While contrastive learning has gained momentum in the time series domain for its prowess in extracting meaningful representations from unlabeled data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Katrina Chen , Mingbin Feng , Tony S. Wirjanto

Learning from noisy labels (LNL) aims to train high-performance deep models using noisy datasets. Meta learning based label correction methods have demonstrated remarkable performance in LNL by designing various meta label rectification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hanxuan Wang , Na Lu , Xueying Zhao , Yuxuan Yan , Kaipeng Ma , Kwoh Chee Keong , Gustavo Carneiro

Deep models often suffer significant performance degradation under distribution shifts. Domain generalization (DG) seeks to mitigate this challenge by enabling models to generalize to unseen domains. Most prior approaches rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhicheng Lin , Xiaolin Wu , Xi Zhang

Noise ubiquitously exists in signals due to numerous factors including physical, electronic, and environmental effects. Traditional methods of symbolic regression, such as genetic programming or deep learning models, aim to find the most…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are expected to provide explanation for users to understand their black-box predictions. Saliency map is a common form of explanation illustrating the heatmap of feature attributions, but it suffers from noise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Rui Xu , Wenkang Qin , Peixiang Huang , Hao Wang , Lin Luo

Recent advances in deep learning have relied on large, labelled datasets to train high-capacity models. However, collecting large datasets in a time- and cost-efficient manner often results in label noise. We present a method for learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ahmet Iscen , Jack Valmadre , Anurag Arnab , Cordelia Schmid

Noisy labels are inevitable yet problematic in machine learning society. It ruins the generalization of a classifier by making the classifier over-fitted to noisy labels. Existing methods on noisy label have focused on modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 HeeSun Bae , Seungjae Shin , Byeonghu Na , JoonHo Jang , Kyungwoo Song , Il-Chul Moon

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in the fields such as natural language processing, computer vision and image recognition. But several studies have been shown that deep neural networks can be easily fooled by artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Long Zhang , Xuechao Sun , Yong Li , Zhenyu Zhang

Test-time adaptation (TTA) of visual language models has recently attracted significant attention as a solution to the performance degradation caused by distribution shifts in downstream tasks. However, existing cache-based TTA methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haotian Zhai , Xinyu Chen , Can Zhang , Tianming Sha , Ruirui Li

The performance of state-of-the-art neural rankers can deteriorate substantially when exposed to noisy inputs or applied to a new domain. In this paper, we present a novel method for fine-tuning neural rankers that can significantly improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xiaofei Ma , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Andrew O. Arnold

Contrastive-learning-based methods have dominated sentence representation learning. These methods regularize the representation space by pulling similar sentence representations closer and pushing away the dissimilar ones and have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xinghao Wang , Junliang He , Pengyu Wang , Yunhua Zhou , Tianxiang Sun , Xipeng Qiu

While image-text representation learning has become very popular in recent years, existing models tend to lack spatial awareness and have limited direct applicability for dense understanding tasks. For this reason, self-supervised…

Noisy labels hurt deep learning-based supervised image classification performance as the models may overfit the noise and learn corrupted feature extractors. For natural image classification training with noisy labeled data, model…

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