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Deep neural classifiers trained with cross-entropy loss (CE loss) often suffer from poor calibration, necessitating the task of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. Traditional supervised OOD detection methods require expensive manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Dheeraj Mekala , Adithya Samavedhi , Chengyu Dong , Jingbo Shang

Spurious correlations that lead models to correct predictions for the wrong reasons pose a critical challenge for robust real-world generalization. Existing research attributes this issue to group imbalance and addresses it by maximizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Miaoyun Zhao , Chenrong Li , Qiang Zhang

Label-efficient segmentation aims to perform effective segmentation on input data using only sparse and limited ground-truth labels for training. This topic is widely studied in 3D point cloud segmentation due to the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Liyao Tang , Zhe Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Chaoyue Wang , Dacheng Tao

This work deviates from easy-to-define class boundaries for object interactions. For the task of object interaction recognition, often captured using an egocentric view, we show that semantic ambiguities in verbs and recognising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Michael Wray , Davide Moltisanti , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Dima Damen

Learning to Rank (LETOR) algorithms are usually trained on annotated corpora where a single relevance label is assigned to each available document-topic pair. Within the Cranfield framework, relevance labels result from merging either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Alberto Purpura , Gianmaria Silvello , Gian Antonio Susto

The reliability of supervised machine learning systems depends on the accuracy and availability of ground truth labels. However, the process of human annotation, being prone to error, introduces the potential for noisy labels, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 David Tschirschwitz , Christian Benz , Morris Florek , Henrik Norderhus , Benno Stein , Volker Rodehorst

Recent work has shown that standard training via empirical risk minimization (ERM) can produce models that achieve high accuracy on average but low accuracy on underrepresented groups due to the prevalence of spurious features. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Yachuan Liu , Bohan Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei , Paramveer Dhillon

Traditional supervised learning heavily relies on human-annotated datasets, especially in data-hungry neural approaches. However, various tasks, especially multi-label tasks like document-level relation extraction, pose challenges in fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zixia Jia , Junpeng Li , Shichuan Zhang , Anji Liu , Zilong Zheng

Conventional supervised learning methods are often vulnerable to spurious correlations, particularly under distribution shifts in test data. To address this issue, several approaches, most notably Group DRO, have been developed. While these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sung Ho Jo , Seonghwi Kim , Minwoo Chae

In scenarios where training data is limited due to observation costs or data scarcity, enriching the label information associated with each instance becomes crucial for building high-accuracy classification models. In such contexts, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kosuke Sugiyama , Masato Uchida

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

Large-scale labeled dataset is the indispensable fuel that ignites the AI revolution as we see today. Most such datasets are constructed using crowdsourcing services such as Amazon Mechanical Turk which provides noisy labels from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Chong Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang

With the increased interest in machine learning and big data problems, the need for large amounts of labelled data has also grown. However, it is often infeasible to get experts to label all of this data, which leads many practitioners to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Pierce Burke , Richard Klein

Although deep face recognition benefits significantly from large-scale training data, a current bottleneck is the labelling cost. A feasible solution to this problem is semi-supervised learning, exploiting a small portion of labelled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yuchi Liu , Hailin Shi , Hang Du , Rui Zhu , Jun Wang , Liang Zheng , Tao Mei

This paper develops and implements a scalable methodology for (a) estimating the noisiness of labels produced by a typical crowdsourcing semantic annotation task, and (b) reducing the resulting error of the labeling process by as much as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 David Q. Sun , Hadas Kotek , Christopher Klein , Mayank Gupta , William Li , Jason D. Williams

We propose a new approach to train a variational information bottleneck (VIB) that improves its robustness to adversarial perturbations. Unlike the traditional methods where the hard labels are usually used for the classification task, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Weizhu Qian , Bowei Chen , Xiaowei Huang

Utilizing uniformly distributed sparse annotations, weakly supervised learning alleviates the heavy reliance on fine-grained annotations in point cloud semantic segmentation tasks. However, few works discuss the inhomogeneity of sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Zhiyi Pan , Nan Zhang , Wei Gao , Shan Liu , Ge Li

A critical bottleneck in supervised machine learning is the need for large amounts of labeled data which is expensive and time consuming to obtain. However, it has been shown that a small amount of labeled data, while insufficient to…

While traditional Deep Learning (DL) optimization methods treat all training samples equally, Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) adaptively assigns importance weights to different samples. However, a significant gap exists between…

Softening labels of training datasets with respect to data representations has been frequently used to improve the training of deep neural networks (DNNs). While such a practice has been studied as a way to leverage privileged information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Xingjian Li , Haoyi Xiong , Haozhe An , Dejing Dou , Chengzhong Xu