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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

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great capabilities in various tasks but also exhibited memorization of training data, raising tremendous privacy and copyright concerns. While prior works have studied memorization during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Shenglai Zeng , Yaxin Li , Jie Ren , Yiding Liu , Han Xu , Pengfei He , Yue Xing , Shuaiqiang Wang , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can easily fit a random labeling of the training data with zero training error. What is the difference between DNNs trained with random labels and the ones trained with true labels? Our paper answers this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Noisy Labels are commonly present in data sets automatically collected from the internet, mislabeled by non-specialist annotators, or even specialists in a challenging task, such as in the medical field. Although deep learning models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Filipe R. Cordeiro , Gustavo Carneiro

The growing importance of massive datasets used for deep learning makes robustness to label noise a critical property for classifiers to have. Sources of label noise include automatic labeling, non-expert labeling, and label corruption by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Dan Hendrycks , Mantas Mazeika , Duncan Wilson , Kevin Gimpel

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become widely adopted, understanding how they learn from, and memorize, training data becomes crucial. Memorization in LLMs is widely assumed to only occur as a result of sequences being repeated in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Igor Shilov , Matthieu Meeus , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

To collect large scale annotated data, it is inevitable to introduce label noise, i.e., incorrect class labels. To be robust against label noise, many successful methods rely on the noisy classifiers (i.e., models trained on the noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Songzhu Zheng , Pengxiang Wu , Aman Goswami , Mayank Goswami , Dimitris Metaxas , Chao Chen

Recent advances in deep learning have relied on large, labelled datasets to train high-capacity models. However, collecting large datasets in a time- and cost-efficient manner often results in label noise. We present a method for learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ahmet Iscen , Jack Valmadre , Anurag Arnab , Cordelia Schmid

The brain is a noisy system subject to energy constraints. These facts are rarely taken into account when modelling artificial neural networks. In this paper, we are interested in demonstrating that those factors can actually lead to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Eliott Coyac , Vincent Gripon , Charlotte Langlais , Claude Berrou

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance in various downstream tasks. However, in many real-world scenarios, the collected training data inevitably contains noisy labels. To learn…

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Noisy labels damage the performance of deep networks. For robust learning, a prominent two-stage pipeline alternates between eliminating possible incorrect labels and semi-supervised training. However, discarding part of noisy labels could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Mingcai Chen , Hao Cheng , Yuntao Du , Ming Xu , Wenyu Jiang , Chongjun Wang

To produce accurate predictions, language models (LMs) must balance between generalization and memorization. Yet, little is known about the mechanism by which transformer LMs employ their memorization capacity. When does a model decide to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Adi Haviv , Ido Cohen , Jacob Gidron , Roei Schuster , Yoav Goldberg , Mor Geva

The impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have sparked debate over whether these models genuinely generalize to unseen tasks or predominantly rely on memorizing vast amounts of pretraining data. To explore this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xinyi Wang , Antonis Antoniades , Yanai Elazar , Alfonso Amayuelas , Alon Albalak , Kexun Zhang , William Yang Wang

Label noise is a critical factor that degrades the generalization performance of deep neural networks, thus leading to severe issues in real-world problems. Existing studies have employed strategies based on either loss or uncertainty to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Wonyoung Shin , Jung-Woo Ha , Shengzhe Li , Yongwoo Cho , Hoyean Song , Sunyoung Kwon

Given data with noisy labels, over-parameterized deep networks can gradually memorize the data, and fit everything in the end. Although equipped with corrections for noisy labels, many learning methods in this area still suffer overfitting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Bo Han , Gang Niu , Xingrui Yu , Quanming Yao , Miao Xu , Ivor Tsang , Masashi Sugiyama

Deep learning has made many remarkable achievements in many fields but suffers from noisy labels in datasets. The state-of-the-art learning with noisy label method Co-teaching and Co-teaching+ confronts the noisy label by mutual-information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Jiarun Liu , Daguang Jiang , Yukun Yang , Ruirui Li

Recent advances in large language models have demonstrated the promise of unsupervised reinforcement learning (RL) methods for enhancing reasoning capabilities without external supervision. However, the generalizability of these label-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shuvendu Roy , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Mengyao Zhai , Golnoosh Samei

We study how large language models (LLMs) reason about memorized knowledge through simple binary relations such as equality ($=$), inequality ($<$), and inclusion ($\subset$). Unlike in-context reasoning, the axioms (e.g., $a < b, b < c$)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jonathan Shaki , Emanuele La Malfa , Michael Wooldridge , Sarit Kraus

Deep learning in the presence of noisy annotations has been studied extensively in classification, but much less in segmentation tasks. In this work, we study the learning dynamics of deep segmentation networks trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Sheng Liu , Kangning Liu , Weicheng Zhu , Yiqiu Shen , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Recently, over-parameterized deep networks, with increasingly more network parameters than training samples, have dominated the performances of modern machine learning. However, when the training data is corrupted, it has been well-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Sheng Liu , Zhihui Zhu , Qing Qu , Chong You