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Recently, the usage of Contrastive Representation Learning (CRL) as a pre-training technique improves the performance of learning with noisy labels (LNL) methods. However, instead of pre-training, when trivially combining CRL loss with LNL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xiaoyu Liu , Beitong Zhou , Zuogong Yue , Cheng Cheng

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) under weak supervision has attracted increasing research attention as it can significantly reduce the annotation cost. However, labels from weak supervision can be noisy, and the high capacity of DNNs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dawei Zhu , Xiaoyu Shen , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

In the field of federated learning, addressing non-independent and identically distributed (non-i.i.d.) data remains a quintessential challenge for improving global model performance. This work introduces the Feature Norm Regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Ke Hu , WeiDong Qiu , Peng Tang

Class-conditional noise commonly exists in machine learning tasks, where the class label is corrupted with a probability depending on its ground-truth. Many research efforts have been made to improve the model robustness against the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ming-Kun Xie , Sheng-Jun Huang

The graph-based semi-supervised label propagation algorithm has delivered impressive classification results. However, the estimated soft labels typically contain mixed signs and noise, which cause inaccurate predictions due to the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Huan Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Qiaolin Ye , Min Zhang , Meng Wang

Audio-text retrieval enables semantic alignment between audio content and natural language queries, supporting applications in multimedia search, accessibility, and surveillance. However, current state-of-the-art approaches struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Meizhu Liu , Matthew Rowe , Amit Agarwal , Michael Avendi , Yassi Abbasi , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Paul Li , Kyu J. Han , Tao Sheng , Sujith Ravi , Dan Roth

As with many other problems, real-world regression is plagued by the presence of noisy labels, an inevitable issue that demands our attention. Fortunately, much real-world data often exhibits an intrinsic property of continuously ordered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chris Dongjoo Kim , Sangwoo Moon , Jihwan Moon , Dongyeon Woo , Gunhee Kim

Deep neural networks (DNNs) experience significant performance degradation when processing noisy labels, primarily due to overfitting on mislabeled data. Current mainstream approaches attempt to mitigate this issue by passively filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ningkang Peng , Jingyang Mao , Xiaoqian Peng , Peirong Ma , Xichen Yang , Weiguang Qu , Yanhui Gu

Learning from Preferences in Reinforcement Learning (PbRL) has gained attention recently, as it serves as a natural fit for complicated tasks where the reward function is not easily available. However, preferences often come with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuxuan Li , Harshith Reddy Kethireddy , Srijita Das

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) effectively trains reasoning models that rely on abundant perfect labels, but its vulnerability to unavoidable noisy labels due to expert scarcity remains critically underexplored. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Shenzhi Yang , Guangcheng Zhu , Bowen Song , Sharon Li , Haobo Wang , Xing Zheng , Yingfan Ma , Zhongqi Chen , Weiqiang Wang , Gang Chen

In large-scale supervised learning, penalized logistic regression (PLR) effectively mitigates overfitting through regularization, yet its performance critically depends on robust variable selection. This paper demonstrates that label noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiaofei Wu , Rongmei Liangse

Despite rapid advances in speech recognition, current models remain brittle to superficial perturbations to their inputs. Small amounts of noise can destroy the performance of an otherwise state-of-the-art model. To harden models against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Davis Liang , Zhiheng Huang , Zachary C. Lipton

Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xinyue Yu , Hayden Schaeffer

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

Unsupervised Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification (USVI-ReID) presents a formidable challenge, which aims to match pedestrian images across visible and infrared modalities without any annotations. Recently, clustered pseudo-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Xiangbo Yin , Jiangming Shi , Yachao Zhang , Yang Lu , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

In few-shot learning (FSL), the labeled samples are scarce. Thus, label errors can significantly reduce classification accuracy. Since label errors are inevitable in realistic learning tasks, improving the robustness of the model in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Nan Xiang , Lifeng Xing , Dequan Jin

Most methods for learning with noisy labels require privileged knowledge such as noise transition matrices, clean subsets or pretrained feature extractors, resources typically unavailable when robustness is most needed. We propose Conformal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yuanjie Shi , Peihong Li , Zijian Zhang , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Yan Yan

Federated learning is a distributed paradigm that aims at training models using samples distributed across multiple users in a network while keeping the samples on users' devices with the aim of efficiency and protecting users privacy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Farzan Farnia , Ramtin Pedarsani , Ali Jadbabaie

Robust loss functions are essential for training deep neural networks with better generalization power in the presence of noisy labels. Symmetric loss functions are confirmed to be robust to label noise. However, the symmetric condition is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xiong Zhou , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xin Gao , Xiangyang Ji

Label noise has been broadly observed in real-world datasets. To mitigate the negative impact of overfitting to label noise for deep models, effective strategies (\textit{e.g.}, re-weighting, or loss rectification) have been broadly applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haoliang Sun , Qi Wei , Lei Feng , Yupeng Hu , Fan Liu , Hehe Fan , Yilong Yin