English
Related papers

Related papers: Robust transfer regression with corrupted labels

200 papers

Text classification models, especially neural networks based models, have reached very high accuracy on many popular benchmark datasets. Yet, such models when deployed in real world applications, tend to perform badly. The primary reason is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Utkarsh Desai , Srikanth Tamilselvam , Jassimran Kaur , Senthil Mani , Shreya Khare

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) are widely used to infer conditional dependence structures in high-dimensional data. However, standard precision matrix estimators are highly sensitive to data contamination, such as extreme outliers and…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-25 Canruo Shen , Xintong Ji , Qiong Li , Wenzhi Yang , Xiaoping Shi

In learning tasks with label noise, improving model robustness against overfitting is a pivotal challenge because the model eventually memorizes labels, including the noisy ones. Identifying the samples with noisy labels and preventing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani , Reza Nasirigerdeh , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Two models are introduced to investigate graph matching in the presence of corrupt nodes. The weak model, inspired by biological networks, allows one or both networks to have a positive fraction of molecular entities interact randomly with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Taha Ameen , Bruce Hajek

Deep neural networks often exhibit poor performance on data that is unlikely under the train-time data distribution, for instance data affected by corruptions. Previous works demonstrate that test-time adaptation to data shift, for instance…

This paper studies a structural failure of subsample-based estimation in dynamic time series models. Even under oracle knowledge of contamination locations, removing contaminated observations does not restore the uncontaminated objective.…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Yukai Yang , Rickard Sandberg

The graph-based semi-supervised label propagation algorithm has delivered impressive classification results. However, the estimated soft labels typically contain mixed signs and noise, which cause inaccurate predictions due to the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Huan Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Qiaolin Ye , Min Zhang , Meng Wang

Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning (GSSL) is a practical solution to learn from a limited amount of labelled data together with a vast amount of unlabelled data. However, due to their reliance on the known labels to infer the unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Adriano Franci , Maxime Cordy , Martin Gubri , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

This work proposes a robust Partial Domain Adaptation (PDA) framework that mitigates the negative transfer problem by incorporating a robust target-supervision strategy. It leverages ensemble learning and includes diverse, complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Sandipan Choudhuri , Suli Adeniye , Arunabha Sen

Transfer learning, also referred as knowledge transfer, aims at reusing knowledge from a source dataset to a similar target one. While many empirical studies illustrate the benefits of transfer learning, few theoretical results are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-19 David Obst , Badih Ghattas , Jairo Cugliari , Georges Oppenheim , Sandra Claudel , Yannig Goude

One of the most important problems in regression-based error model is modeling the complex representation error caused by various corruptions and environment changes in images. For example, in robust face recognition, images are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Miaohua Zhang , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou

In supervised learning one wishes to identify a pattern present in a joint distribution $P$, of instances, label pairs, by providing a function $f$ from instances to labels that has low risk $\mathbb{E}_{P}\ell(y,f(x))$. To do so, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-07 Brendan van Rooyen , Robert C. Williamson

In practice, the data distribution at test time often differs, to a smaller or larger extent, from that of the original training data. Consequentially, the so-called source classifier, trained on the available labelled data, deteriorates on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-18 Wouter M. Kouw , Marco Loog

We consider the problem of robustly testing the norm of a high-dimensional sparse signal vector under two different observation models. In the first model, we are given $n$ i.i.d. samples from the distribution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Anand Jerry George , Clément L. Canonne

Acquiring ground truth labels for unlabelled data can be a costly procedure, since it often requires manual labour that is error-prone. Consequently, the available amount of labelled data is increasingly reduced due to the limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Athanasios Davvetas , Iraklis A. Klampanos

Introducing training-time augmentations is a key technique to enhance generalization and prepare deep neural networks against test-time corruptions. Inspired by the success of generative diffusion models, we propose a novel approach of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Markus Heinonen , Ba-Hien Tran , Michael Kampffmeyer , Maurizio Filippone

We study the problem of Robust Least Squares Regression (RLSR) where several response variables can be adversarially corrupted. More specifically, for a data matrix X \in R^{p x n} and an underlying model w*, the response vector is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Kush Bhatia , Prateek Jain , Purushottam Kar

We propose a novel sample selection method for image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Existing methods typically consider small-loss samples as correctly labeled. However, some correctly labeled samples are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Weiran Pan , Wei Wei , Feida Zhu , Yong Deng

The paper algorithmizes the problem of regime change point identification for data measured in a system exhibiting impulsive behaviors. This is a fundamental challenge for annotation of measurement data relevant, e.g., for designing…

When labeled data is scarce for a specific target task, transfer learning often offers an effective solution by utilizing data from a related source task. However, when transferring knowledge from a less related source, it may inversely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Zirui Wang , Zihang Dai , Barnabás Póczos , Jaime Carbonell