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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…

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Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables learning models from decentralized private datasets, where the labeling effort is entrusted to the clients. While most existing FL approaches assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi , Nirvana Meratnia

Supervised deep learning needs a large amount of labeled data to achieve high performance. However, in medical imaging analysis, each site may only have a limited amount of data and labels, which makes learning ineffective. Federated…

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We address the problem of cluster identity estimation in a personalized federated learning (PFL) setting in which users aim to learn different personal models. The backbone of effective learning in such a setting is to cluster users into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Abdulmoneam Ali , Ahmed Arafa

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) aims to learn multiple task-specific models rather than a single global model across heterogeneous data distributions. Existing PFL approaches typically rely on iterative optimization-such as model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Abdulmoneam Ali , Ahmed Arafa

Due to the existence of label noise in web images and the high memorization capacity of deep neural networks, training deep fine-grained (FG) models directly through web images tends to have an inferior recognition ability. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Zeren Sun , Xian-Sheng Hua , Yazhou Yao , Xiu-Shen Wei , Guosheng Hu , Jian Zhang

Partially-supervised learning can be challenging for segmentation due to the lack of supervision for unlabeled structures, and the methods directly applying fully-supervised learning could lead to incompatibility, meaning ground truth is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ke Zhang , Xiahai Zhuang

We introduce a novel method to combat label noise when training deep neural networks for classification. We propose a loss function that permits abstention during training thereby allowing the DNN to abstain on confusing samples while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-05 Sunil Thulasidasan , Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Jeff Bilmes , Gopinath Chennupati , Jamal Mohd-Yusof

Intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD) plays a crucial role in ensuring the safe operation of industrial machinery and improving production efficiency. However, traditional supervised deep learning methods require a large amount of training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yajiao Dai , Jun Li , Zhen Mei , Yiyang Ni , Shi Jin , Zengxiang Li , Sheng Guo , Wei Xiang

Partial-label learning is a popular weakly supervised learning setting that allows each training example to be annotated with a set of candidate labels. Previous studies on partial-label learning only focused on the classification setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xin Cheng , Deng-Bao Wang , Lei Feng , Min-Ling Zhang , Bo An

In real-world scenarios, many large-scale datasets often contain inaccurate labels, i.e., noisy labels, which may confuse model training and lead to performance degradation. To overcome this issue, Label Noise Learning (LNL) has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yongliang Ding , Tao Zhou , Chuang Zhang , Yijing Luo , Juan Tang , Chen Gong

Partial-label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning problem, where each training instance is equipped with a set of candidate labels among which only one is the true label. Most existing methods elaborately designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Jiaqi Lv , Miao Xu , Lei Feng , Gang Niu , Xin Geng , Masashi Sugiyama

This study explores the robustness of label noise classifiers, aiming to enhance model resilience against noisy data in complex real-world scenarios. Label noise in supervised learning, characterized by erroneous or imprecise labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Cheng Zeng , Yixuan Xu , Jiaqi Tian

Deep neural networks are able to memorize noisy labels easily with a softmax cross-entropy (CE) loss. Previous studies attempted to address this issue focus on incorporating a noise-robust loss function to the CE loss. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Li Yi , Sheng Liu , Qi She , A. Ian McLeod , Boyu Wang

Noisy labels in distributed datasets induce severe local overfitting and consequently compromise the global model in federated learning (FL). Most existing solutions rely on selecting clean devices or aligning with public clean datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xiangyu Zhong , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

The amount of manually labeled data is limited in medical applications, so semi-supervised learning and automatic labeling strategies can be an asset for training deep neural networks. However, the quality of the automatically generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Wenhui Cui , Haleh Akrami , Anand A. Joshi , Richard M. Leahy

Class imbalance and label noise are pervasive in large-scale datasets, yet much of machine learning research assumes well-labeled, balanced data, which rarely reflects real world conditions. Existing approaches typically address either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 John Brandon Graham-Knight , Jamil Fayyad , Nourhan Bayasi , Patricia Lasserre , Homayoun Najjaran

We present a theoretically grounded approach to train deep neural networks, including recurrent networks, subject to class-dependent label noise. We propose two procedures for loss correction that are agnostic to both application domain and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-23 Giorgio Patrini , Alessandro Rozza , Aditya Menon , Richard Nock , Lizhen Qu

Federated Learning (FL) is an exciting new paradigm that enables training a global model from data generated locally at the client nodes, without moving client data to a centralized server. Performance of FL in a multi-access edge computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Saurav Prakash , Sagar Dhakal , Mustafa Akdeniz , A. Salman Avestimehr , Nageen Himayat

Federated Contrastive Learning (FCL) represents a burgeoning approach for learning from decentralized unlabeled data while upholding data privacy. In FCL, participant clients collaborate in learning a global encoder using unlabeled data,…

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