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Most existing methods that cope with noisy labels usually assume that the class distributions are well balanced, which has insufficient capacity to deal with the practical scenarios where training samples have imbalanced distributions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Huiyan Qi , Dingwen Zhang

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

Noisy labels are inevitable in large real-world datasets. In this work, we explore an area understudied by previous works -- how the network's architecture impacts its robustness to noisy labels. We provide a formal framework connecting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jingling Li , Mozhi Zhang , Keyulu Xu , John P. Dickerson , Jimmy Ba

In this paper, we investigate the problem of learning with noisy labels in real-world annotation scenarios, where noise can be categorized into two types: factual noise and ambiguity noise. To better distinguish these noise types and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Renyu Zhu , Haoyu Liu , Runze Wu , Minmin Lin , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Haobo Wang

Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) calls are prone to various speech impairments due to environmental and network conditions resulting in bad user experience. A reliable audio impairment classifier helps to identify the cause for bad audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Chandan K A Reddy , Ross Cutler , Johannes Gehrke

Despite deep learning has achieved great success, it often relies on a large amount of training data with accurate labels, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. A prominent direction to reduce the cost is to learn with noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Chuanyang Hu , Shipeng Yan , Zhitong Gao , Xuming He

In the surface defect detection, there are some suspicious regions that cannot be uniquely classified as abnormal or normal. The annotating of suspicious regions is easily affected by factors such as workers' emotional fluctuations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Tongzhi Niu , Bin Li , Kai Li , Yufeng Lin , Yuwei Li , Weifeng Li , Zhenrong Wang

For multi-class classification under class-conditional label noise, we prove that the accuracy metric itself can be robust. We concretize this finding's inspiration in two essential aspects: training and validation, with which we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pengfei Chen , Junjie Ye , Guangyong Chen , Jingwei Zhao , Pheng-Ann Heng

The study of label noise in sound event recognition has recently gained attention with the advent of larger and noisier datasets. This work addresses the problem of missing labels, one of the big weaknesses of large audio datasets, and one…

Training data plays an essential role in modern applications of machine learning. However, gathering labeled training data is time-consuming. Therefore, labeling is often outsourced to less experienced users, or completely automated. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Alex Bäuerle , Heiko Neumann , Timo Ropinski

Semantic noise in image classification datasets, where visually similar categories are frequently mislabeled, poses a significant challenge to conventional supervised learning approaches. In this paper, we explore the potential of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yingxuan Li , Jiafeng Mao , Yusuke Matsui

In this paper we provide machine learning practitioners with tools to answer the question: is there class-conditional noise in my labels? In particular, we present hypothesis tests to check whether a given dataset of instance-label pairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Rafael Poyiadzi , Weisong Yang , Niall Twomey , Raul Santos-Rodriguez

In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models with label noise. Existing approaches depending on human supervision are generally not scalable as manually identifying correct or incorrect labels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Kuang-Huei Lee , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Linjun Yang

Supervised learning under label noise has seen numerous advances recently, while existing theoretical findings and empirical results broadly build up on the class-conditional noise (CCN) assumption that the noise is independent of input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Pengfei Chen , Junjie Ye , Guangyong Chen , Jingwei Zhao , Pheng-Ann Heng

The challenge of learning with noisy labels is significant in machine learning, as it can severely degrade the performance of prediction models if not addressed properly. This paper introduces a novel framework that conceptualizes noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Marzi Heidari , Hanping Zhang , Yuhong Guo

We study the problem of estimation and testing in logistic regression with class-conditional noise in the observed labels, which has an important implication in the Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning setting. With the key observation that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-14 Hyebin Song , Ran Dai , Garvesh Raskutti , Rina Foygel Barber

Noisy labels are a pervasive challenge in medical image classification, where annotation errors arise from inter-observer variability and diagnostic ambiguity. Although several noise-robust learning methods have been proposed, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Maycon R. S. Pereira , Filipe R. Cordeiro

Learning with noisy labels has aroused much research interest since data annotations, especially for large-scale datasets, may be inevitably imperfect. Recent approaches resort to a semi-supervised learning problem by dividing training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Kai Wang , Xiangyu Peng , Shuo Yang , Jianfei Yang , Zheng Zhu , Xinchao Wang , Yang You

Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL) aims to improve the model generalization when facing data with noisy labels, and existing methods generally assume that noisy labels come from known classes, called closed-set noise. However, in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Linchao Pan , Can Gao , Jie Zhou , Jinbao Wang

The recent success of deep neural networks is powered in part by large-scale well-labeled training data. However, it is a daunting task to laboriously annotate an ImageNet-like dateset. On the contrary, it is fairly convenient, fast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yifan Ding , Liqiang Wang , Deliang Fan , Boqing Gong