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Object detection has advanced rapidly in recent years, driven by increasingly large and diverse datasets. However, label errors often compromise the quality of these datasets and affect the outcomes of training and benchmark evaluations.…

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A fundamental question in adversarial machine learning is whether a robust classifier exists for a given task. A line of research has made some progress towards this goal by studying the concentration of measure, but we argue standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xiao Zhang , David Evans

Learning exists in the context of data, yet notions of confidence typically focus on model predictions, not label quality. Confident learning (CL) is an alternative approach which focuses instead on label quality by characterizing and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-23 Curtis G. Northcutt , Lu Jiang , Isaac L. Chuang

In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models with label noise. Existing approaches depending on human supervision are generally not scalable as manually identifying correct or incorrect labels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Kuang-Huei Lee , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Linjun Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the capacity to fit extremely noisy labels nonetheless they tend to learn data with clean labels first and then memorize those with noisy labels. We examine this behavior in light of the Shannon entropy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Hao Wu , Jiangchao Yao , Jiajie Wang , Yinru Chen , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Image classification benchmark datasets such as CIFAR, MNIST, and ImageNet serve as critical tools for model evaluation. However, despite the cleaning efforts, these datasets still suffer from pervasive noisy labels and often contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Zirui Pang , Haosheng Tan , Yuhan Pu , Zhijie Deng , Zhouan Shen , Keyu Hu , Jiaheng Wei

Imperfections in data annotation, known as label noise, are detrimental to the training of machine learning models and have an often-overlooked confounding effect on the assessment of model performance. Nevertheless, employing experts to…

Large-scale datasets possessing clean label annotations are crucial for training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, labeling large-scale data can be very costly and error-prone, and even high-quality datasets are likely to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Yisen Wang , Weiyang Liu , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey , Hongyuan Zha , Le Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Recent approaches based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) have shown promising results for named-entity recognition (NER). In order to achieve high performances, ANNs need to be trained on a large labeled dataset. However, labels might…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Ji Young Lee , Franck Dernoncourt , Peter Szolovits

Supervised learning on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is data hungry. Optimizing performance of DNN in the presence of noisy labels has become of paramount importance since collecting a large dataset will usually bring in noisy labels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Shuyu Kong , You Li , Jia Wang , Amin Rezaei , Hai Zhou

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental part of extracting information from documents in biomedical applications. A notable advantage of NER is its consistency in extracting biomedical entities in a document context. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Minbyul Jeong , Jaewoo Kang

Learning from noisy labels (LNL) is crucial in deep learning, in which one of the approaches is to identify clean-label samples from poorly-annotated datasets. Such an identification is challenging because the conventional LNL problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Cuong Nguyen , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

We propose a novel sample selection method for image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Existing methods typically consider small-loss samples as correctly labeled. However, some correctly labeled samples are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Weiran Pan , Wei Wei , Feida Zhu , Yong Deng

State-of-the-art, high capacity deep neural networks not only require large amounts of labelled training data, they are also highly susceptible to label errors in this data, typically resulting in large efforts and costs and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Christian Haase-Schütz , Rainer Stal , Heinz Hertlein , Bernhard Sick

Language models have shown promise in various tasks but can be affected by undesired data during training, fine-tuning, or alignment. For example, if some unsafe conversations are wrongly annotated as safe ones, the model fine-tuned on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhaowei Zhu , Jialu Wang , Hao Cheng , Yang Liu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a well-studied problem in NLP. However, there is much less focus on studying NER datasets, compared to developing new NER models. In this paper, we employed three simple techniques to detect annotation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Gabriel Bernier-Colborne , Sowmya Vajjala

In this study we provide empirical evidence demonstrating that the quality of training data impacts model performance in Human Pose Estimation (HPE). Inaccurate labels in widely used data sets, ranging from minor errors to severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Arnold Schwarz , Levente Hernadi , Felix Bießmann , Kristian Hildebrand

NLP benchmarks rely on standardized datasets for training and evaluating models and are crucial for advancing the field. Traditionally, expert annotations ensure high-quality labels; however, the cost of expert annotation does not scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Omer Nahum , Nitay Calderon , Orgad Keller , Idan Szpektor , Roi Reichart

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract and classify entity mentions in the text into pre-defined types (e.g., organization or person name). Recently, many works have been proposed to shape the NER as a machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yibo Wang , Wenting Zhao , Yao Wan , Zhongfen Deng , Philip S. Yu

Representing a true label as a one-hot vector is a common practice in training text classification models. However, the one-hot representation may not adequately reflect the relation between the instances and labels, as labels are often not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Biyang Guo , Songqiao Han , Xiao Han , Hailiang Huang , Ting Lu