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Noisy data, crawled from the web or supplied by volunteers such as Mechanical Turkers or citizen scientists, is considered an alternative to professionally labeled data. There has been research focused on mitigating the effects of label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Clemens-Alexander Brust , Björn Barz , Joachim Denzler

Recently deep neural networks have shown their capacity to memorize training data, even with noisy labels, which hurts generalization performance. To mitigate this issue, we provide a simple but effective baseline method that is robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Yucen Luo , Jun Zhu , Tomas Pfister

In Multi-Label Learning (MLL), it is extremely challenging to accurately annotate every appearing object due to expensive costs and limited knowledge. When facing such a challenge, a more practical and cheaper alternative should be Single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiang Li , Xinrui Wang , Songcan Chen

Identifying and handling label errors can significantly enhance the accuracy of supervised machine learning models. Recent approaches for identifying label errors demonstrate that a low self-confidence of models with respect to a certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Johannes Jakubik , Michael Vössing , Manil Maskey , Christopher Wölfle , Gerhard Satzger

Deep classifiers have achieved great success in visual recognition. However, real-world data is long-tailed by nature, leading to the mismatch between training and testing distributions. In this paper, we show that the Softmax function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Jiawei Ren , Cunjun Yu , Shunan Sheng , Xiao Ma , Haiyu Zhao , Shuai Yi , Hongsheng Li

In many real-world classification tasks, label noise is an unavoidable issue that adversely affects the generalization error of machine learning models. Additionally, evaluating how methods handle such noise is complicated, as the effect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Sjoerd de Vries , Dirk Thierens

Hard-label classification is usually trained with smooth surrogate losses, most prominently softmax cross-entropy. We isolate an asymptotic mechanism by which this mismatch between smooth surrogate and discrete labels produces power-law…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Marcel Kühn , Yoon Thelge , Bernd Rosenow

Label noise in data has long been an important problem in supervised learning applications as it affects the effectiveness of many widely used classification methods. Recently, important real-world applications, such as medical diagnosis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-02 Shunan Yao , Bradley Rava , Xin Tong , Gareth James

We propose an approximate strategy to efficiently train neural network based language models over very large vocabularies. Our approach, called adaptive softmax, circumvents the linear dependency on the vocabulary size by exploiting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Edouard Grave , Armand Joulin , Moustapha Cissé , David Grangier , Hervé Jégou

Label noise is frequently observed in real-world large-scale datasets. The noise is introduced due to a variety of reasons; it is heterogeneous and feature-dependent. Most existing approaches to handling noisy labels fall into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yikai Zhang , Songzhu Zheng , Pengxiang Wu , Mayank Goswami , Chao Chen

Top-k error is currently a popular performance measure on large scale image classification benchmarks such as ImageNet and Places. Despite its wide acceptance, our understanding of this metric is limited as most of the previous research is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Maksim Lapin , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Training deep object detectors requires significant amount of human-annotated images with accurate object labels and bounding box coordinates, which are extremely expensive to acquire. Noisy annotations are much more easily accessible, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Junnan Li , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher , Steven Hoi

Adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most effective ways to obtain the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, most AT methods suffer from robust overfitting, i.e., a significant generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Daiwei Yu , Zhuorong Li , Lina Wei , Canghong Jin , Yun Zhang , Sixian Chan

In recent years, the remarkable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in computer vision is largely due to large-scale, high-quality labeled datasets. Training directly on real-world datasets with label noise may result in overfitting. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yuandi Zhao , Qianxi Xia , Yang Sun , Zhijie Wen , Liyan Ma , Shihui Ying

Training neural networks with one-hot target labels often results in overconfidence and overfitting. Label smoothing addresses this issue by perturbing the one-hot target labels by adding a uniform probability vector to create a regularized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Sachin Chhabra , Hemanth Venkateswara , Baoxin Li

Softmax working with cross-entropy is widely used in classification, which evaluates the similarity between two discrete distribution columns (predictions and true labels). Inspired by chi-square test, we designed a new loss function called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zeyu Wang , Meiqing Wang

In recent years, research on learning with noisy labels has focused on devising novel algorithms that can achieve robustness to noisy training labels while generalizing to clean data. These algorithms often incorporate sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Hui Kang , Sheng Liu , Huaxi Huang , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu

Loss functions play a key role in training superior deep neural networks. In convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the popular cross entropy loss together with softmax does not explicitly guarantee minimization of intra-class variance or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 XiaoBin Li , WeiQiang Wang

We propose a method, called Label Embedding Network, which can learn label representation (label embedding) during the training process of deep networks. With the proposed method, the label embedding is adaptively and automatically learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Xu Sun , Bingzhen Wei , Xuancheng Ren , Shuming Ma

With the prevalence of large-scale pretrained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, soft-prompt tuning has become a popular method for adapting these models to various downstream tasks. However, few works delve into the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Shuai Fu , Xiequn Wang , Qiushi Huang , Yu Zhang