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The original ImageNet benchmark enforces a single-label assumption, despite many images depicting multiple objects. This leads to label noise and limits the richness of the learning signal. Multi-label annotations more accurately reflect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Junyu Chen , Md Yousuf Harun , Christopher Kanan

Pairwise preferences over model responses are widely collected to evaluate and provide feedback to large language models (LLMs). Given two alternative model responses to the same input, a human or AI annotator selects the "better" response.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Arduin Findeis , Floris Weers , Guoli Yin , Ke Ye , Ruoming Pang , Tom Gunter

High-quality labels are expensive to obtain for many machine learning tasks, such as medical image classification tasks. Therefore, probabilistic (weak) labels produced by weak supervision tools are used to seed a process in which…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yinjun Wu , James Weimer , Susan B. Davidson

Acquiring labelled training data remains a costly task in real world machine learning projects to meet quantity and quality requirements. Recently Large Language Models (LLMs), notably GPT-4, have shown great promises in labelling data with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Thomas Walshe , Sae Young Moon , Chunyang Xiao , Yawwani Gunawardana , Fran Silavong

Everyone makes mistakes. So do human annotators when curating labels for named entity recognition (NER). Such label mistakes might hurt model training and interfere model comparison. In this study, we dive deep into one of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang , Liyuan Liu , Lihao Lu , Jiacheng Liu , Jiawei Han

High-quality annotations are essential for object detection models, but ensuring label accuracy - especially for bounding boxes - remains both challenging and costly. This paper introduces ClipGrader, a novel approach that leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hong Lu , Yali Bian , Rahul C. Shah

Biomedical text tagging systems are plagued by the dearth of labeled training data. There have been recent attempts at using pre-trained encoders to deal with this issue. Pre-trained encoder provides representation of the input text which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Gaurav Singh , Zahra Sabet , John Shawe-Taylor , James Thomas

Pairwise preference data have played an important role in the alignment of large language models (LLMs). Each sample of such data consists of a prompt, two different responses to the prompt, and a binary label indicating which of the two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhongze Cai , Xiaocheng Li

Modular AI systems can be developed using LLM-prompts-based modules to minimize deployment time even for complex tasks. However, these systems do not always perform well and improving them using the data traces collected from a deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Karan Taneja , Ashok Goel

Modeling complex subjective tasks in Natural Language Processing, such as recognizing emotion and morality, is considerably challenging due to significant variation in human annotations. This variation often reflects reasonable differences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Georgios Chochlakis , Peter Wu , Arjun Bedi , Marcus Ma , Kristina Lerman , Shrikanth Narayanan

Automated label generation for clusters of scientific documents is a common task in bibliometric workflows. Traditionally, labels were formed by concatenating distinguishing characteristics of a cluster's documents; while straightforward,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dakota Murray , Chaoqun Ni , Weiye Gu , Trevor Hubbard

Pre-trained vision-language models learn massive data to model unified representations of images and natural languages, which can be widely applied to downstream machine learning tasks. In addition to zero-shot inference, in order to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qian-Wei Wang , Yuqiu Xie , Letian Zhang , Zimo Liu , Shu-Tao Xia

Label placement is a critical aspect of map design, serving as a form of spatial annotation that directly impacts clarity and interpretability. Despite its importance, label placement remains largely manual and difficult to scale, as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Harry Shomer , Jiejun Xu

In radiology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced report generation, but automatic evaluation of these AI-produced reports remains challenging. Current metrics, such as Conventional Natural Language Generation (NLG) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Qingqing Zhu , Xiuying Chen , Qiao Jin , Benjamin Hou , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Pritam Mukherjee , Xin Gao , Ronald M Summers , Zhiyong Lu

The evaluation of machine learning models using human-labeled validation data can be expensive and time-consuming. AI-labeled synthetic data can be used to decrease the number of human annotations required for this purpose in a process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Pierre Boyeau , Anastasios N. Angelopoulos , Nir Yosef , Jitendra Malik , Michael I. Jordan

Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly tuned to power complex generation tasks such as writing, fact-seeking, querying and reasoning. Traditionally, human or model feedback for evaluating and further tuning LLM performance has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yukti Makhija , Priyanka Agrawal , Rishi Saket , Aravindan Raghuveer

Despite powering sensitive systems like autonomous vehicles, object detection remains fairly brittle in part due to annotation errors that plague most real-world training datasets. We propose ObjectLab, a straightforward algorithm to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ulyana Tkachenko , Aditya Thyagarajan , Jonas Mueller

Nowadays, a huge number of images are available. However, retrieving a required image for an ordinary user is a challenging task in computer vision systems. During the past two decades, many types of research have been introduced to improve…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Amir Vatani , Milad Taleby Ahvanooey , Mostafa Rahimi

LLM use in annotation is becoming widespread, and given LLMs' overall promising performance and speed, simply "reviewing" LLM annotations in interpretive tasks can be tempting. In subjective annotation tasks with multiple plausible answers,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Hope Schroeder , Deb Roy , Jad Kabbara

The success of machine learning is deeply linked to the availability of high-quality training data, yet retrieving and manually labeling new data remains a time-consuming and error-prone process. Traditional annotation tools, such as Label…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sachin Kumar Singh , Ko Watanabe , Brian Moser , Shoya Ishimaru , Andreas Dengel