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Foundation models are usually pre-trained on large-scale datasets and then adapted to downstream tasks through tuning. However, the large-scale pre-training datasets, often inaccessible or too expensive to handle, can contain label noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Hao Chen , Zihan Wang , Ran Tao , Hongxin Wei , Xing Xie , Masashi Sugiyama , Bhiksha Raj , Jindong Wang

To predict rare extreme events using deep neural networks, one encounters the so-called small data problem because even long-term observations often contain few extreme events. Here, we investigate a model-assisted framework where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Anna Asch , Ethan Brady , Hugo Gallardo , John Hood , Bryan Chu , Mohammad Farazmand

For multi-class classification under class-conditional label noise, we prove that the accuracy metric itself can be robust. We concretize this finding's inspiration in two essential aspects: training and validation, with which we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pengfei Chen , Junjie Ye , Guangyong Chen , Jingwei Zhao , Pheng-Ann Heng

We evaluate machine comprehension models' robustness to noise and adversarial attacks by performing novel perturbations at the character, word, and sentence level. We experiment with different amounts of perturbations to examine model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Winston Wu , Dustin Arendt , Svitlana Volkova

We describe a framework for designing efficient active learning algorithms that are tolerant to random classification noise and are differentially-private. The framework is based on active learning algorithms that are statistical in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Maria Florina Balcan , Vitaly Feldman

Traditionally, in Audio Recognition pipeline, noise is suppressed by the "frontend", relying on preprocessing techniques such as speech enhancement. However, it is not guaranteed that noise will not cascade into downstream pipelines. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Juncheng B Li , Zheng Wang , Shuhui Qu , Florian Metze

In this work we study the problem of measuring the fairness of a machine learning model under noisy information. Focusing on group fairness metrics, we investigate the particular but common situation when the evaluation requires controlling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Flavien Prost , Pranjal Awasthi , Nick Blumm , Aditee Kumthekar , Trevor Potter , Li Wei , Xuezhi Wang , Ed H. Chi , Jilin Chen , Alex Beutel

Because large, human-annotated datasets suffer from labeling errors, it is crucial to be able to train deep neural networks in the presence of label noise. While training image classification models with label noise have received much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ishan Jindal , Daniel Pressel , Brian Lester , Matthew Nokleby

In industry NLP application, our manually labeled data has a certain number of noisy data. We present a simple method to find the noisy data and relabel them manually, meanwhile we collect the correction information. Then we present novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Tong Guo

This paper tackles the problem of the heavy dependence of clean speech data required by deep learning based audio-denoising methods by showing that it is possible to train deep speech denoising networks using only noisy speech samples.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Madhav Mahesh Kashyap , Anuj Tambwekar , Krishnamoorthy Manohara , S Natarajan

Sequence labeling systems should perform reliably not only under ideal conditions but also with corrupted inputs - as these systems often process user-generated text or follow an error-prone upstream component. To this end, we formulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Marcin Namysl , Sven Behnke , Joachim Köhler

Robust learning methods aim to learn a clean target distribution from noisy and corrupted training data where a specific corruption pattern is often assumed a priori. Our proposed method can not only successfully learn the clean target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Jeongeun Park , Seungyoun Shin , Sangheum Hwang , Sungjoon Choi

Temporal data such as time series can be viewed as discretized measurements of the underlying function. To build a generative model for such data we have to model the stochastic process that governs it. We propose a solution by defining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Marin Biloš , Kashif Rasul , Anderson Schneider , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Stephan Günnemann

A promising approach to improve climate-model simulations is to replace traditional subgrid parameterizations based on simplified physical models by machine learning algorithms that are data-driven. However, neural networks (NNs) often lead…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Janni Yuval , Paul A. O'Gorman , Chris N. Hill

Graph neural networks (GNNs) learn node representations by passing and aggregating messages between neighboring nodes. GNNs have been applied successfully in several application domains and achieved promising performance. However, GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zeyu Zhang , Yulong Pei

State-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models often learn to model dataset biases and surface form correlations instead of features that target the intended underlying task. Previous work has demonstrated effective methods to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Victor Sanh , Thomas Wolf , Yonatan Belinkov , Alexander M. Rush

Text-to-image diffusion model is a popular paradigm that synthesizes personalized images by providing a text prompt and a random Gaussian noise. While people observe that some noises are ``golden noises'' that can achieve better text-image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zikai Zhou , Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Shufei Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Bo Han , Zeke Xie

We consider the problem of training a model under the presence of label noise. Current approaches identify samples with potentially incorrect labels and reduce their influence on the learning process by either assigning lower weights to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Duc Tam Nguyen , Thi-Phuong-Nhung Ngo , Zhongyu Lou , Michael Klar , Laura Beggel , Thomas Brox

Noisy PN learning is the problem of binary classification when training examples may be mislabeled (flipped) uniformly with noise rate rho1 for positive examples and rho0 for negative examples. We propose Rank Pruning (RP) to solve noisy PN…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-11 Curtis G. Northcutt , Tailin Wu , Isaac L. Chuang

Collecting large-scale datasets is crucial for training deep models, annotating the data, however, inevitably yields noisy labels, which poses challenges to deep learning algorithms. Previous efforts tend to mitigate this problem via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao