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Noisy labels are an unavoidable consequence of labeling processes and detecting them is an important step towards preventing performance degradations in Convolutional Neural Networks. Discarding noisy labels avoids a harmful memorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Large-scale datasets in the real world inevitably involve label noise. Deep models can gradually overfit noisy labels and thus degrade model generalization. To mitigate the effects of label noise, learning with noisy labels (LNL) methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Tingting Wu , Xiao Ding , Minji Tang , Hao Zhang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

For high-resource languages like English, text classification is a well-studied task. The performance of modern NLP models easily achieves an accuracy of more than 90% in many standard datasets for text classification in English (Xie et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Dawei Zhu , Michael A. Hedderich , Fangzhou Zhai , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Dietrich Klakow

Learning and decision-making in domains with naturally high noise-to-signal ratio, such as Finance or Healthcare, is often challenging, while the stakes are very high. In this paper, we study the problem of learning and acting under a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yikai Zhang , Songzhu Zheng , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Pengxiang Wu , Anderson Schneider , Anant Raj , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Chao Chen

Real-world datasets commonly have noisy labels, which negatively affects the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs). In order to address this problem, we propose a label noise robust learning algorithm, in which the base classifier is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

Noisy labels are inevitable in real-world scenarios. Due to the strong capacity of deep neural networks to memorize corrupted labels, these noisy labels can cause significant performance degradation. Existing research on mitigating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xinlei Zhang , Fan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Fan Cheng , Yuhui Zheng

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

This paper aims to provide understandings for the effect of an over-parameterized model, e.g. a deep neural network, memorizing instance-dependent noisy labels. We first quantify the harms caused by memorizing noisy instances, and show the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yang Liu

Class imbalance and noisy labels are the norm rather than the exception in many large-scale classification datasets. Nevertheless, most works in machine learning typically assume balanced and clean data. There have been some recent attempts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Shyamgopal Karthik , Jérome Revaud , Boris Chidlovskii

We introduce a novel method to combat label noise when training deep neural networks for classification. We propose a loss function that permits abstention during training thereby allowing the DNN to abstain on confusing samples while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-05 Sunil Thulasidasan , Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Jeff Bilmes , Gopinath Chennupati , Jamal Mohd-Yusof

Learning from noisy labels is a challenge that arises in many real-world applications where training data can contain incorrect or corrupted labels. When fine-tuning language models with noisy labels, models can easily overfit the label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yuchen Zhuang , Yue Yu , Lingkai Kong , Xiang Chen , Chao Zhang

Deep learning with noisy labels is practically challenging, as the capacity of deep models is so high that they can totally memorize these noisy labels sooner or later during training. Nonetheless, recent studies on the memorization effects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Bo Han , Quanming Yao , Xingrui Yu , Gang Niu , Miao Xu , Weihua Hu , Ivor Tsang , Masashi Sugiyama

The recent success of deep learning is mostly due to the availability of big datasets with clean annotations. However, gathering a cleanly annotated dataset is not always feasible due to practical challenges. As a result, label noise is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Görkem Algan , İlkay Ulusoy

Label noise will degenerate the performance of deep learning algorithms because deep neural networks easily overfit label errors. Let X and Y denote the instance and clean label, respectively. When Y is a cause of X, according to which many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-06 Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Bo Han , Gang Niu , Kun Zhang

We show when maximizing a properly defined $f$-divergence measure with respect to a classifier's predictions and the supervised labels is robust with label noise. Leveraging its variational form, we derive a nice decoupling property for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jiaheng Wei , Yang Liu

The study of label noise in sound event recognition has recently gained attention with the advent of larger and noisier datasets. This work addresses the problem of missing labels, one of the big weaknesses of large audio datasets, and one…

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

Large annotated datasets inevitably contain noisy labels, which poses a major challenge for training deep neural networks as they easily memorize the labels. Noise-robust loss functions have emerged as a notable strategy to counteract this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Max Staats , Matthias Thamm , Bernd Rosenow

The deep learning models used for speaker verification rely heavily on large amounts of data and correct labeling. However, noisy (incorrect) labels often occur, which degrades the performance of the system. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zhihua Fang , Liang He , Hanhan Ma , Xiaochen Guo , Lin Li

Models that can actively seek out the best quality training data hold the promise of more accurate, adaptable, and efficient machine learning. Active learning techniques often tend to prefer examples that are the most difficult to classify.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Savya Khosla , Chew Kin Whye , Jordan T. Ash , Cyril Zhang , Kenji Kawaguchi , Alex Lamb