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Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with small batches using Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) yields superior test performance compared to larger batches. The specific noise structure inherent to SGD is known to be responsible for this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-14 Tom Sander , Maxime Sylvestre , Alain Durmus

Learning with noisy labels (LNL) aims to ensure model generalization given a label-corrupted training set. In this work, we investigate a rarely studied scenario of LNL on fine-grained datasets (LNL-FG), which is more practical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Qi Wei , Lei Feng , Haoliang Sun , Ren Wang , Chenhui Guo , Yilong Yin

Large language models readily memorize arbitrary training instances, such as label noise, yet they perform strikingly well on reasoning tasks. In this work, we investigate how language models memorize label noise, and why such memorization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yupei Du , Philipp Mondorf , Silvia Casola , Yuekun Yao , Robert Litschko , Barbara Plank

The memorization problem is well-known in the field of computer vision. Liu et al. propose a technique called Early-Learning Regularization, which improves accuracy on the CIFAR datasets when label noise is present. This project replicates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Alessio Galatolo , Alfred Nilsson , Roderick Karlemstrand , Yineng Wang

The development of reliable methods for multi-label classification (MLC) has become a prominent research direction in remote sensing (RS). As the scale of RS data continues to expand, annotation procedures increasingly rely on thematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Tom Burgert , Julia Henkel , Begüm Demir

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has been the dominant optimization method for training deep neural networks due to its many desirable properties. One of the more remarkable and least understood quality of SGD is that it generalizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Erhan Bilal

Training deep neural networks(DNN) with noisy labels is challenging since DNN can easily memorize inaccurate labels, leading to poor generalization ability. Recently, the meta-learning based label correction strategy is widely adopted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

A widely believed explanation for the remarkable generalization capacities of overparameterized neural networks is that the optimization algorithms used for training induce an implicit bias towards benign solutions. To grasp this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Maria Matveev , Vit Fojtik , Hung-Hsu Chou , Gitta Kutyniok , Johannes Maly

The memorization effect of deep neural network (DNN) plays a pivotal role in many state-of-the-art label-noise learning methods. To exploit this property, the early stopping trick, which stops the optimization at the early stage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yingbin Bai , Erkun Yang , Bo Han , Yanhua Yang , Jiatong Li , Yinian Mao , Gang Niu , Tongliang Liu

Purpose: Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in medical image classification, benefiting from its powerful mapping capability among medical images. However, these existing deep learning-based methods depend on an enormous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Mengdi Gao , Ximeng Feng , Mufeng Geng , Zhe Jiang , Lei Zhu , Xiangxi Meng , Chuanqing Zhou , Qiushi Ren , Yanye Lu

We present a non-asymptotic theory of generalization in deep learning where the empirical neural tangent kernel partitions the output space. In directions corresponding to signal, error dissipates rapidly; in the vast orthogonal dimensions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Elon Litman , Gabe Guo

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) in the presence of noisy labels is an important and challenging task. Probabilistic modeling, which consists of a classifier and a transition matrix, depicts the transformation from true labels to noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Xianbin Lv , Dongxian Wu , Shu-Tao Xia

Recent results in the literature suggest that the penultimate (second-to-last) layer representations of neural networks that are trained for classification exhibit a clustering property called neural collapse (NC). We study the implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Tomer Galanti , Liane Galanti , Ido Ben-Shaul

Overparametrized neural networks trained by gradient descent (GD) can provably overfit any training data. However, the generalization guarantee may not hold for noisy data. From a nonparametric perspective, this paper studies how well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-28 Tianyang Hu , Wenjia Wang , Cong Lin , Guang Cheng

The robustness of supervised deep learning-based medical image classification is significantly undermined by label noise. Although several methods have been proposed to enhance classification performance in the presence of noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bidur Khanal , Tianhong Dai , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian Linte

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) experience significant performance degradation when processing noisy labels, primarily due to overfitting on mislabeled data. Current mainstream approaches attempt to mitigate this issue by passively filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ningkang Peng , Jingyang Mao , Xiaoqian Peng , Peirong Ma , Xichen Yang , Weiguang Qu , Yanhui Gu

We study the implicit bias of ReLU neural networks trained by a variant of SGD where at each step, the label is changed with probability $p$ to a random label (label smoothing being a close variant of this procedure). Our experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Elisabetta Cornacchia , Jan Hązła , Ido Nachum , Amir Yehudayoff

Modern deep learning techniques focus on extracting intricate information from data to achieve accurate predictions. However, the training datasets may be crowdsourced and include sensitive information, such as personal contact details,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Zhongjie Shi , Puyu Wang , Chenyang Zhang , Yuan Cao

We introduce Noise Injection Node Regularization (NINR), a method of injecting structured noise into Deep Neural Networks (DNN) during the training stage, resulting in an emergent regularizing effect. We present theoretical and empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Noam Levi , Itay M. Bloch , Marat Freytsis , Tomer Volansky