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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

Deep learning with noisy labels presents significant challenges. In this work, we theoretically characterize the role of label noise from a feature learning perspective. Specifically, we consider a signal-noise data distribution, where each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Andi Han , Wei Huang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Gang Niu , Wuyang Chen , Junchi Yan , Akiko Takeda , Taiji Suzuki

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

In supervised classification tasks, models are trained to predict a label for each data point. In real-world datasets, these labels are often noisy due to annotation errors. While the impact of label noise on the performance of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ali Hussaini Umar , Franky Kevin Nando Tezoh , Jean Barbier , Santiago Acevedo , Alessandro Laio

Datasets with significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels present challenges for training accurate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We propose a new perspective for understanding DNN generalization for such datasets, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Xingjun Ma , Yisen Wang , Michael E. Houle , Shuo Zhou , Sarah M. Erfani , Shu-Tao Xia , Sudanthi Wijewickrema , James Bailey

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) with limited supervision has been a popular research topic as it can significantly alleviate the annotation burden. Self-training has been successfully applied in semi-supervised learning tasks, but one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Ran Xu , Yue Yu , Hejie Cui , Xuan Kan , Yanqiao Zhu , Joyce Ho , Chao Zhang , Carl Yang

Given data with noisy labels, over-parameterized deep networks can gradually memorize the data, and fit everything in the end. Although equipped with corrections for noisy labels, many learning methods in this area still suffer overfitting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Bo Han , Gang Niu , Xingrui Yu , Quanming Yao , Miao Xu , Ivor Tsang , Masashi Sugiyama

Label noise is common in large real-world datasets, and its presence harms the training process of deep neural networks. Although several works have focused on the training strategies to address this problem, there are few studies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Emeson Santana , Gustavo Carneiro , Filipe R. Cordeiro

The memorization effect of deep neural networks (DNNs) plays a pivotal role in recent label noise learning methods. To exploit this effect, the model prediction-based methods have been widely adopted, which aim to exploit the outputs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chuang Zhang , Li Shen , Jian Yang , Chen Gong

Deep neural network can easily overfit to even noisy labels due to its high capacity, which degrades the generalization performance of a model. To overcome this issue, we propose a new approach for learning from noisy labels (LNL) via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Seulki Park , Hwanjun Song , Daeho Um , Dae Ung Jo , Sangdoo Yun , Jin Young Choi

Noise in data appears to be inevitable in most real-world machine learning applications and would cause severe overfitting problems. Not only can data features contain noise, but labels are also prone to be noisy due to human input. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Weipeng Huang , Qin Li , Yang Xiao , Cheng Qiao , Tie Cai , Junwei Liang , Neil J. Hurley , Guangyuan Piao

Optimization plays a key role in the training of deep neural networks. Deciding when to stop training can have a substantial impact on the performance of the network during inference. Under certain conditions, the generalization error can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Florian Dubost , Erin Hong , Max Pike , Siddharth Sharma , Siyi Tang , Nandita Bhaskhar , Christopher Lee-Messer , Daniel Rubin

Noisy Labels are commonly present in data sets automatically collected from the internet, mislabeled by non-specialist annotators, or even specialists in a challenging task, such as in the medical field. Although deep learning models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Filipe R. Cordeiro , Gustavo Carneiro

Collecting large training datasets, annotated with high-quality labels, is costly and time-consuming. This paper proposes a novel framework for training deep convolutional neural networks from noisy labeled datasets that can be obtained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Arash Vahdat

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

When random label noise is added to a training dataset, the prediction error of a neural network on a label-noise-free test dataset initially improves during early training but eventually deteriorates, following a U-shaped dependence on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chaoyue Liu , Amirhesam Abedsoltan , Mikhail Belkin

Deep neural networks have incredible capacity and expressibility, and can seemingly memorize any training set. This introduces a problem when training in the presence of noisy labels, as the noisy examples cannot be distinguished from clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Daniel Shwartz , Uri Stern , Daphna Weinshall

Labelling of data for supervised learning can be costly and time-consuming and the risk of incorporating label noise in large data sets is imminent. When training a flexible discriminative model using a strictly proper loss, such noise will…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-13 Amanda Olmin , Fredrik Lindsten

We propose a novel framework to perform classification via deep learning in the presence of noisy annotations. When trained on noisy labels, deep neural networks have been observed to first fit the training data with clean labels during an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sheng Liu , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Narges Razavian , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Noisy labels can significantly impact medical image classification, particularly in deep learning, by corrupting learned features. Self-supervised pretraining, which doesn't rely on labeled data, can enhance robustness against noisy labels.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Cristian Linte