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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

Learning from positive and unlabeled data is known as positive-unlabeled (PU) learning in literature and has attracted much attention in recent years. One common approach in PU learning is to sample a set of pseudo-negatives from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Zhangchi Zhu , Lu Wang , Pu Zhao , Chao Du , Wei Zhang , Hang Dong , Bo Qiao , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang

In-context learning refers to the emerging ability of large language models (LLMs) to perform a target task without additional training, utilizing demonstrations of the task. Recent studies aim to enhance in-context learning performance by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Junyong Kang , Donghyun Son , Hwanjun Song , Buru Chang

ConvNets achieve good results when training from clean data, but learning from noisy labels significantly degrades performances and remains challenging. Unlike previous works constrained by many conditions, making them infeasible to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Jiangfan Han , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang

Supervised learning under label noise has seen numerous advances recently, while existing theoretical findings and empirical results broadly build up on the class-conditional noise (CCN) assumption that the noise is independent of input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Pengfei Chen , Junjie Ye , Guangyong Chen , Jingwei Zhao , Pheng-Ann Heng

The recent success of deep neural networks is powered in part by large-scale well-labeled training data. However, it is a daunting task to laboriously annotate an ImageNet-like dateset. On the contrary, it is fairly convenient, fast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yifan Ding , Liqiang Wang , Deliang Fan , Boqing Gong

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have garnered considerable interest due to their exceptional performance in a wide range of graph machine learning tasks. Nevertheless, the majority of GNN-based approaches have been examined using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Jingyang Yuan , Xiao Luo , Yifang Qin , Zhengyang Mao , Wei Ju , Ming Zhang

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

In this paper, we introduce the Dependent Noise-based Inaccurate Label Distribution Learning (DN-ILDL) framework to tackle the challenges posed by noise in label distribution learning, which arise from dependencies on instances and labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhiqiang Kou , Jing Wang , Yuheng Jia , Xin Geng

Although noisy-label learning is often approached with discriminative methods for simplicity and speed, generative modeling offers a principled alternative by capturing the joint mechanism that produces features, clean labels, and corrupted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Fengbei Liu , Chong Wang , Yuanhong Chen , Yuyuan Liu , Gustavo Carneiro

In low-resource settings, the performance of supervised labeling models can be improved with automatically annotated or distantly supervised data, which is cheap to create but often noisy. Previous works have shown that significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Lukas Lange , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

The sample selection approach is very popular in learning with noisy labels. As deep networks learn pattern first, prior methods built on sample selection share a similar training procedure: the small-loss examples can be regarded as clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xiaobo Xia , Pengqian Lu , Chen Gong , Bo Han , Jun Yu , Jun Yu , Tongliang Liu

Noisy partial label learning (noisy PLL) is an important branch of weakly supervised learning. Unlike PLL where the ground-truth label must conceal in the candidate label set, noisy PLL relaxes this constraint and allows the ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mingyu Xu , Zheng Lian , Lei Feng , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

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

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

The task of continual learning requires careful design of algorithms that can tackle catastrophic forgetting. However, the noisy label, which is inevitable in a real-world scenario, seems to exacerbate the situation. While very few studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Nazmul Karim , Umar Khalid , Ashkan Esmaeili , Nazanin Rahnavard

The "Curse of dimensionality" is prevalent across various data patterns, which increases the risk of model overfitting and leads to a decline in model classification performance. However, few studies have focused on this issue in Partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wanfu Gao , Hanlin Pan , Qingqi Han , Kunpeng Liu

Few-shot learning (FSL) methods typically assume clean support sets with accurately labeled samples when training on novel classes. This assumption can often be unrealistic: support sets, no matter how small, can still include mislabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kevin J Liang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Vladan Petrovic , Tal Hassner

Due to the lack of labels and the domain diversities, it is a challenge to study person re-identification in the cross-domain setting. An admirable method is to optimize the target model by assigning pseudo-labels for unlabeled samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Hongliang Zhang , Shoudong Han , Xiaofeng Pan , Jun Zhao

Since deep neural networks are over-parameterized, they can memorize noisy examples. We address such a memorization issue in the presence of label noise. From the fact that deep neural networks cannot generalize to neighborhoods of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Jisoo Lee , Sae-Young Chung