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Learning with noisy labels in multimedia classification often combines external annotations and model predictions into a single reliability weight, even though the two sources can fail for different reasons. We instead estimate disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jingyang Mao , Ningkang Peng , Yanhui Gu

Real-world classification problems typically exhibit an imbalanced or long-tailed label distribution, wherein many labels are associated with only a few samples. This poses a challenge for generalisation on such labels, and also makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Aditya Krishna Menon , Sadeep Jayasumana , Ankit Singh Rawat , Himanshu Jain , Andreas Veit , Sanjiv Kumar

Multi-label classification, which involves assigning multiple labels to a single input, has emerged as a key area in both research and industry due to its wide-ranging applications. Designing effective loss functions is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Alexandre Audibert , Aurélien Gauffre , Massih-Reza Amini

Continual Learning aims to learn from a stream of tasks, being able to remember at the same time both new and old tasks. While many approaches were proposed for single-class classification, multi-label classification in the continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Davide Dalle Pezze , Denis Deronjic , Chiara Masiero , Diego Tosato , Alessandro Beghi , Gian Antonio Susto

Multi-label learning handles instances associated with multiple class labels. The original label space is a logical matrix with entries from the Boolean domain $\in \left \{ 0,1 \right \}$. Logical labels are not able to show the relative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Ali Braytee , Wei Liu

There is growing recognition that many NLP tasks lack a single ground truth, as human judgments reflect diverse perspectives. To capture this variation, models have been developed to predict full annotation distributions rather than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Frances Yung , Daniil Ignatev , Merel Scholman , Vera Demberg , Massimo Poesio

Meta-learning performs adaptation through a limited amount of support set, which may cause a sample bias problem. To solve this problem, transductive meta-learning is getting more and more attention, going beyond the conventional inductive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Sanghyuk Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Byung Cheol Song

Complementary-label learning (CLL) is a weakly-supervised learning paradigm that aims to train a multi-class classifier using only complementary labels, which indicate classes to which an instance does not belong. Despite numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hsiu-Hsuan Wang , Tan-Ha Mai , Nai-Xuan Ye , Wei-I Lin , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Learning with noisy labels (LNL) aims at designing strategies to improve model performance and generalization by mitigating the effects of model overfitting to noisy labels. The key success of LNL lies in identifying as many clean samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Jichang Li , Guanbin Li , Feng Liu , Yizhou Yu

Noisy labels are ubiquitous in real-world datasets, especially in the large-scale ones derived from crowdsourcing and web searching. It is challenging to train deep neural networks with noisy datasets since the networks are prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yangdi Lu , Wenbo He

Data lies at the core of modern deep learning. The impressive performance of supervised learning is built upon a base of massive accurately labeled data. However, in some real-world applications, accurate labeling might not be viable;…

Supervised learning typically focuses on learning transferable representations from training examples annotated by humans. While rich annotations (like soft labels) carry more information than sparse annotations (like hard labels), they are…

Current deep learning paradigms largely benefit from the tremendous amount of annotated data. However, the quality of the annotations often varies among labelers. Multi-observer studies have been conducted to study these annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Xiaosong Wang , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Leo Tam , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

In many real-world tasks, particularly those involving data objects with complicated semantics such as images and texts, one object can be represented by multiple instances and simultaneously be associated with multiple labels. Such tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sheng-Jun Huang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Leveraging weak or noisy supervision for building effective machine learning models has long been an important research problem. Its importance has further increased recently due to the growing need for large-scale datasets to train deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Guoqing Zheng , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Susan Dumais

The success of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models significantly depends on the quality of provided annotations. In medical image segmentation, for example, having multiple expert annotations for each data point is common to minimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Asma Ahmed Hashmi , Aigerim Zhumabayeva , Nikita Kotelevskii , Artem Agafonov , Mohammad Yaqub , Maxim Panov , Martin Takáč

In hierarchical multi-label classification, a persistent challenge is enabling model predictions to reach deeper levels of the hierarchy for more detailed or fine-grained classifications. This difficulty partly arises from the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Isaac Xu , Martin Gillis , Ayushi Sharma , Benjamin Misiuk , Craig J. Brown , Thomas Trappenberg

Human label variation (HLV) is a valuable source of information that arises when multiple human annotators provide different labels for valid reasons. In Natural Language Inference (NLI) earlier approaches to capturing HLV involve either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Beiduo Chen , Xinpeng Wang , Siyao Peng , Robert Litschko , Anna Korhonen , Barbara Plank

Learning from ambiguous labels is a long-standing problem in practical machine learning applications. The purpose of \emph{partial label learning} (PLL) is to identify the ground-truth label from a set of candidate labels associated with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jinfu Fan , Xiaohui Zhong , Kangrui Ren , Jiangnan Li , Linqing Huang

The existence of noisy labels in the dataset causes significant performance degradation for deep neural networks (DNNs). To address this problem, we propose a Meta Soft Label Generation algorithm called MSLG, which can jointly generate soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy