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In many applications of classifier learning, training data suffers from label noise. Deep networks are learned using huge training data where the problem of noisy labels is particularly relevant. The current techniques proposed for learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Aritra Ghosh , Himanshu Kumar , P. S. Sastry

Incorrectly labeled examples, or label noise, is common in real-world computer vision datasets. While the impact of label noise on learning in deep neural networks has been studied in prior work, these studies have exclusively focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Bidur Khanal , Christopher Kanan

Several works in computer vision have demonstrated the effectiveness of active learning for adapting the recognition model when new unlabeled data becomes available. Most of these works consider that labels obtained from the annotator are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sudipta Paul , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Improper or erroneous labelling can pose a hindrance to reliable generalization for supervised learning. This can have negative consequences, especially for critical fields such as healthcare. We propose an effective new approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Konstantinos Nikolaidis , Thomas Plagemann , Stein Kristiansen , Vera Goebel , Mohan Kankanhalli

The performance of a model trained with noisy labels is often improved by simply \textit{retraining} the model with its \textit{own predicted hard labels} (i.e., 1/0 labels). Yet, a detailed theoretical characterization of this phenomenon…

We study the limiting dynamics of a large class of noisy gradient descent systems in the overparameterized regime. In this regime the set of global minimizers of the loss is large, and when initialized in a neighbourhood of this zero-loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Anna Shalova , André Schlichting , Mark Peletier

In this paper, we introduced the novel concept of advisor network to address the problem of noisy labels in image classification. Deep neural networks (DNN) are prone to performance reduction and overfitting problems on training data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Simone Ricci , Tiberio Uricchio , Alberto Del Bimbo

Deep networks have strong capacities of embedding data into latent representations and finishing following tasks. However, the capacities largely come from high-quality annotated labels, which are expensive to collect. Noisy labels are more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shikun Li , Xiaobo Xia , Shiming Ge , Tongliang Liu

Deep feedforward and recurrent networks have achieved impressive results in many perception and language processing applications. This success is partially attributed to architectural innovations such as convolutional and long short-term…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Arvind Neelakantan , Luke Vilnis , Quoc V. Le , Ilya Sutskever , Lukasz Kaiser , Karol Kurach , James Martens

The major driving force behind the immense success of deep learning models is the availability of large datasets along with their clean labels. Unfortunately, this is very difficult to obtain, which has motivated research on the training of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Devraj Mandal , Shrisha Bharadwaj , Soma Biswas

To collect large scale annotated data, it is inevitable to introduce label noise, i.e., incorrect class labels. To be robust against label noise, many successful methods rely on the noisy classifiers (i.e., models trained on the noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Songzhu Zheng , Pengxiang Wu , Aman Goswami , Mayank Goswami , Dimitris Metaxas , Chao Chen

Noisy labels can impair the performance of deep neural networks. To tackle this problem, in this paper, we propose a new method for filtering label noise. Unlike most existing methods relying on the posterior probability of a noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Pengxiang Wu , Songzhu Zheng , Mayank Goswami , Dimitris Metaxas , Chao Chen

Recent advancements in deep learning have proven highly effective in medical image classification, notably within histopathology. However, noisy labels represent a critical challenge in histopathology image classification, where accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Lucas Dedieu , Nicolas Nerrienet , Adrien Nivaggioli , Clara Simmat , Marceau Clavel , Arnaud Gauthier , Stéphane Sockeel , Rémy Peyret

Noisy labels, which are common in real-world datasets, can significantly impair the training of deep learning models. However, recent adversarial noise-combating methods overlook the long-tailed distribution of real data, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Mengting Li , Chuang Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful tools in computer vision tasks. However, in many realistic scenarios label noise is prevalent in the training images, and overfitting to these noisy labels can significantly harm the generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Jan M. Köhler , Maximilian Autenrieth , William H. Beluch

Learning with noisy labels remains challenging because over-parameterized networks memorize corrupted supervision. Meta-learning-based sample reweighting mitigates this by using a small clean subset to guide training, yet its behavior and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yiming Zhang , Chester Holtz , Gal Mishne , Alex Cloninger

Neural Encoders are frequently used in the NLP domain to perform dense retrieval tasks, for instance, to generate the candidate documents for a given query in question-answering tasks. However, sparse annotation and label noise in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Arnab Sharma

Increasing the size of overparameterized neural networks has been a key in achieving state-of-the-art performance. This is captured by the double descent phenomenon, where the test loss follows a decreasing-increasing-decreasing pattern (or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Yihao Xue , Kyle Whitecross , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

The memorization effect of deep neural network (DNN) plays a pivotal role in many state-of-the-art label-noise learning methods. To exploit this property, the early stopping trick, which stops the optimization at the early stage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yingbin Bai , Erkun Yang , Bo Han , Yanhua Yang , Jiatong Li , Yinian Mao , Gang Niu , Tongliang Liu

Noisy labels in large E-commerce product data (i.e., product items are placed into incorrect categories) are a critical issue for product categorization task because they are unavoidable, non-trivial to remove and degrade prediction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Huy Nguyen , Devashish Khatwani