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A weakly-supervised learning framework named as complementary-label learning has been proposed recently, where each sample is equipped with a single complementary label that denotes one of the classes the sample does not belong to. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-24 Yuzhou Cao , Shuqi Liu , Yitian Xu

Changes in the data distribution at test time can have deleterious effects on the performance of predictive models $p(y|x)$. We consider situations where there are additional meta-data labels (such as group labels), denoted by $z$, that can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-30 Qingyao Sun , Kevin Murphy , Sayna Ebrahimi , Alexander D'Amour

Deep neural networks often produce overconfident predictions, undermining their reliability in safety-critical applications. This miscalibration is further exacerbated under distribution shift, where test data deviates from the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yilin Zhang , Cai Xu , You Wu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao

Data stream processing has become a landmark in modern machine learning applications, with concept drifts and novel class appearances posing the primary challenges faced by sophisticated recognition methods. This work proposes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Joanna Komorniczak

Training machine learning models from data with weak supervision and dataset shifts is still challenging. Designing algorithms when these two situations arise has not been explored much, and existing algorithms cannot always handle the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Pierre Nodet , Vincent Lemaire , Alexis Bondu , Antoine Cornuéjols

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

Labeled datasets reflect the biases of their annotation pipelines, which sometimes introduce label bias: group-conditional label errors that cause systematic performance disparities across demographic subgroups. Label bias in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aditya Parikh , Stella Frank , Sneha Das , Aasa Feragen

In recent years, rapid technological advancements and expanded Internet access have led to a significant rise in anomalies within network traffic and time-series data. Prompt detection of these irregularities is crucial for ensuring service…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mahshid Rezakhani , Tolunay Seyfi , Fatemeh Afghah

When a deep learning model is deployed in the wild, it can encounter test data drawn from distributions different from the training data distribution and suffer drop in performance. For safe deployment, it is essential to estimate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jiefeng Chen , Frederick Liu , Besim Avci , Xi Wu , Yingyu Liang , Somesh Jha

Estimating the test performance of a model, possibly under distribution shift, without having access to the ground-truth labels is a challenging, yet very important problem for the safe deployment of machine learning algorithms in the wild.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Renchunzi Xie , Ambroise Odonnat , Vasilii Feofanov , Ievgen Redko , Jianfeng Zhang , Bo An

Motivated by the scarcity of proper labels in an astrophysical application, we have developed a novel technique, called Selfish Evolution, which allows for the detection and correction of corrupted labels in a weakly supervised fashion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Nima Sedaghat , Tanawan Chatchadanoraset , Colin Orion Chandler , Ashish Mahabal , Maryam Eslami

Anomaly detection in time-series has a wide range of practical applications. While numerous anomaly detection methods have been proposed in the literature, a recent survey concluded that no single method is the most accurate across various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mononito Goswami , Cristian Challu , Laurent Callot , Lenon Minorics , Andrey Kan

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

Models trained with deep learning often fail to signal when inputs fall outside their training data manifold, leading to unreliable predictions under distribution shift. Prior work suggests that effective out-of-distribution (OOD) detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Brett Barkley , Preston Culbertson , David Fridovich-Keil

We consider the problem of estimating the class prior in an unlabeled dataset. Under the assumption that an additional labeled dataset is available, the class prior can be estimated by fitting a mixture of class-wise data distributions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Marthinus C. du Plessis , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

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

In label-noise learning, \textit{noise transition matrix}, denoting the probabilities that clean labels flip into noisy labels, plays a central role in building \textit{statistically consistent classifiers}. Existing theories have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Xiaobo Xia , Tongliang Liu , Nannan Wang , Bo Han , Chen Gong , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Either human annotation or rule based automatic labeling is an effective method to augment data for relation extraction. However, the inevitable wrong labeling problem for example by distant supervision may deteriorate the performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Shanchan Wu , Kai Fan

In many real-world settings, machine learning models need to identify user inputs that are out-of-domain (OOD) so as to avoid performing wrong actions. This work focuses on a challenging case of OOD detection, where no labels for in-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Di Jin , Shuyang Gao , Seokhwan Kim , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

The problem of domain generalization concerns learning predictive models that are robust to distribution shifts when deployed in new, previously unseen environments. Existing methods typically require labeled data from multiple training…