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We investigate the problem of classification in the presence of unknown class-conditional label noise in which the labels observed by the learner have been corrupted with some unknown class dependent probability. In order to obtain finite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Henry W J Reeve , Ata Kaban

In real-world datasets, noisy labels are pervasive. The challenge of learning with noisy labels (LNL) is to train a classifier that discerns the actual classes from given instances. For this, the model must identify features indicative of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hui Kang , Sheng Liu , Huaxi Huang , Tongliang Liu

Learning in the presence of label noise is a challenging yet important task: it is crucial to design models that are robust in the presence of mislabeled datasets. In this paper, we discover that a new class of loss functions called the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Liu Ziyin , Blair Chen , Ru Wang , Paul Pu Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency , Masahito Ueda

The task of causal representation learning aims to uncover latent higher-level causal variables that affect lower-level observations. Identifying the true latent causal variables from observed data, while allowing instantaneous causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yuhang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Dong Gong , Mingming Gong , Biwei Huang , Anton van den Hengel , Kun Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

The prevalence of noisy-label samples poses a significant challenge in deep learning, inducing overfitting effects. This has, therefore, motivated the emergence of learning with noisy-label (LNL) techniques that focus on separating noisy-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Arpit Garg , Cuong Nguyen , Rafael Felix , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

The monotonic ordinal classification has increased the interest of researchers and practitioners within machine learning community in the last years. In real applications, the problems with monotonicity constraints are very frequent. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-23 José-Ramón Cano , Julián Luengo , Salvador García

Large-scale datasets in the real world inevitably involve label noise. Deep models can gradually overfit noisy labels and thus degrade model generalization. To mitigate the effects of label noise, learning with noisy labels (LNL) methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Tingting Wu , Xiao Ding , Minji Tang , Hao Zhang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

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

Due to the over-emphasize of the quantity of data, the data quality has often been overlooked. However, not all training data points contribute equally to learning. In particular, if mislabeled, it might actively damage the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Vaibhav Pulastya , Gaurav Nuti , Yash Kumar Atri , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Discrimination can occur when the underlying unbiased labels are overwritten by an agent with potential bias, resulting in biased datasets that unfairly harm specific groups and cause classifiers to inherit these biases. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yixuan Zhang , Boyu Li , Zenan Ling , Feng Zhou

Deep learning with noisy labels is an interesting challenge in weakly supervised learning. Despite their significant learning capacity, CNNs have a tendency to overfit in the presence of samples with noisy labels. Alleviating this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yan Han , Soumava Kumar Roy , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

We pose a fundamental question in computational learning theory: can we efficiently test whether a training set satisfies the assumptions of a given noise model? This question has remained unaddressed despite decades of research on learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Surbhi Goel , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

We consider the problem of learning causal models from observational data generated by linear non-Gaussian acyclic causal models with latent variables. Without considering the effect of latent variables, one usually infers wrong causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Saber Salehkaleybar , AmirEmad Ghassami , Negar Kiyavash , Kun Zhang

To ensure that the data collected from human subjects is entrusted with a secret, rival labels are introduced to conceal the information provided by the participants on purpose. The corresponding learning task can be formulated as a noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Cheng Chen , Yueming Lyu , Ivor W. Tsang

Due to the expensive costs of collecting labels in multi-label classification datasets, partially annotated multi-label classification has become an emerging field in computer vision. One baseline approach to this task is to assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Youngwook Kim , Jae Myung Kim , Jieun Jeong , Cordelia Schmid , Zeynep Akata , Jungwoo Lee

Performing controlled experiments on noisy data is essential in understanding deep learning across noise levels. Due to the lack of suitable datasets, previous research has only examined deep learning on controlled synthetic label noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Lu Jiang , Di Huang , Mason Liu , Weilong Yang

Class-conditional noise commonly exists in machine learning tasks, where the class label is corrupted with a probability depending on its ground-truth. Many research efforts have been made to improve the model robustness against the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ming-Kun Xie , Sheng-Jun Huang

A key requirement for supervised machine learning is labeled training data, which is created by annotating unlabeled data with the appropriate class. Because this process can in many cases not be done by machines, labeling needs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Nicolas Michael Müller , Karla Markert

While mislabeled or ambiguously-labeled samples in the training set could negatively affect the performance of deep models, diagnosing the dataset and identifying mislabeled samples helps to improve the generalization power. Training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Qingrui Jia , Xuhong Li , Lei Yu , Jiang Bian , Penghao Zhao , Shupeng Li , Haoyi Xiong , Dejing Dou

Robust training with noisy labels is a critical challenge in image classification, offering the potential to reduce reliance on costly clean-label datasets. Real-world datasets often contain a mix of in-distribution (ID) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Arpit Garg , Cuong Nguyen , Rafael Felix , Yuyuan Liu , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro