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One crucial factor behind the success of deep learning lies in the implicit bias induced by noise inherent in gradient-based training algorithms. Motivated by empirical observations that training with noisy labels improves model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tongcheng Zhang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Mingze Wang , Andi Han , Wei Huang , Taiji Suzuki , Junchi Yan

The capacity of deep learning models is often large enough to both learn the underlying statistical signal and overfit to noise in the training set. This noise memorization can be harmful especially for data with a low signal-to-noise ratio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wei Huang , Andi Han , Yujin Song , Yilan Chen , Denny Wu , Difan Zou , Taiji Suzuki

Giving up and starting over may seem wasteful in many situations such as searching for a target or training deep neural networks (DNNs). Our study, though, demonstrates that resetting from a checkpoint can significantly improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Youngkyoung Bae , Yeongwoo Song , Hawoong Jeong

Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality manual annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan Kankanhalli

Label noise may affect the generalization of classifiers, and the effective learning of main patterns from samples with noisy labels is an important challenge. Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks tend to prioritize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Yi Sun , Yan Tian , Yiping Xu , Jianxiang Li

The availability of large labeled datasets has allowed Convolutional Network models to achieve impressive recognition results. However, in many settings manual annotation of the data is impractical; instead our data has noisy labels, i.e.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Joan Bruna , Manohar Paluri , Lubomir Bourdev , Rob Fergus

We introduce a novel method for training machine learning models in the presence of noisy labels, which are prevalent in domains such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving and have the potential to degrade a model's generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Farooq Ahmad Wani , Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Fabrizio Silvestri

Pre-training on large-scale datasets and then fine-tuning on downstream tasks have become a standard practice in deep learning. However, pre-training data often contain label noise that may adversely affect the generalization of the model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hao Chen , Jindong Wang , Ankit Shah , Ran Tao , Hongxin Wei , Xing Xie , Masashi Sugiyama , Bhiksha Raj

Training deep networks with noisy labels leads to poor generalization and degraded accuracy due to overfitting to label noise. Existing approaches for learning with noisy labels often rely on the availability of a clean subset of data. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 David Szczecina , Nicholas Pellegrino , Paul Fieguth

Noisy labels hurt deep learning-based supervised image classification performance as the models may overfit the noise and learn corrupted feature extractors. For natural image classification training with noisy labeled data, model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Cristian A. Linte

Recent advances in deep learning have relied on large, labelled datasets to train high-capacity models. However, collecting large datasets in a time- and cost-efficient manner often results in label noise. We present a method for learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ahmet Iscen , Jack Valmadre , Anurag Arnab , Cordelia Schmid

Random label noises (or observational noises) widely exist in practical machine learning settings. While previous studies primarily focus on the affects of label noises to the performance of learning, our work intends to investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Haoyi Xiong , Xuhong Li , Boyang Yu , Zhanxing Zhu , Dongrui Wu , Dejing Dou

Label noise is emerging as a pressing issue in sound event classification. This arises as we move towards larger datasets that are difficult to annotate manually, but it is even more severe if datasets are collected automatically from…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eduardo Fonseca , Frederic Font , Xavier Serra

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in numerous domains with help from large amounts of big data. However, the quality of data labels is a concern because of the lack of high-quality labels in many real-world scenarios. As noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Hwanjun Song , Minseok Kim , Dongmin Park , Yooju Shin , Jae-Gil Lee

In overparametrized models, the noise in stochastic gradient descent (SGD) implicitly regularizes the optimization trajectory and determines which local minimum SGD converges to. Motivated by empirical studies that demonstrate that training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Alex Damian , Tengyu Ma , Jason D. Lee

We propose a framework using contrastive learning as a pre-training task to perform image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Recent strategies such as pseudo-labeling, sample selection with Gaussian Mixture models, weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Madalina Ciortan , Romain Dupuis , Thomas Peel

Modern neural networks are typically trained in an over-parameterized regime where the parameters of the model far exceed the size of the training data. Such neural networks in principle have the capacity to (over)fit any set of labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Mingchen Li , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Samet Oymak

Image classification systems recently made a giant leap with the advancement of deep neural networks. However, these systems require an excessive amount of labeled data to be adequately trained. Gathering a correctly annotated dataset is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

Supervised learning of deep neural networks heavily relies on large-scale datasets annotated by high-quality labels. In contrast, mislabeled samples can significantly degrade the generalization of models and result in memorizing samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tsung-Ming Tai , Yun-Jie Jhang , Wen-Jyi Hwang

Modern neural networks have the capacity to overfit noisy labels frequently found in real-world datasets. Although great progress has been made, existing techniques are limited in providing theoretical guarantees for the performance of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Kaidi Cao , Jure Leskovec
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