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In many applications, the training data, from which one needs to learn a classifier, is corrupted with label noise. Many standard algorithms such as SVM perform poorly in presence of label noise. In this paper we investigate the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Aritra Ghosh , Naresh Manwani , P. S. Sastry

Label noise has been broadly observed in real-world datasets. To mitigate the negative impact of overfitting to label noise for deep models, effective strategies (\textit{e.g.}, re-weighting, or loss rectification) have been broadly applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haoliang Sun , Qi Wei , Lei Feng , Yupeng Hu , Fan Liu , Hehe Fan , Yilong Yin

In this article, we proposed a partition:wise robust loss function based on the previous robust loss function. The characteristics of this loss function are that it achieves high robustness and a wide range of applicability through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Chenyu Hui , Anran Zhang , Xintong Li

Label noise and class imbalance commonly coexist in real-world data. Previous works for robust learning, however, usually address either one type of the data biases and underperform when facing them both. To mitigate this gap, this work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Shenwang Jiang , Jianan Li , Jizhou Zhang , Ying Wang , Tingfa Xu

We introduce novel variants of momentum by incorporating the variance of the stochastic loss function. The variance characterizes the confidence or uncertainty of the local features of the averaged loss surface across the i.i.d. subsets of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Vineeth S. Bhaskara , Sneha Desai

Label-noise learning (LNL) aims to increase the model's generalization given training data with noisy labels. To facilitate practical LNL algorithms, researchers have proposed different label noise types, ranging from class-conditional to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jingfeng Zhang , Bo Song , Haohan Wang , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu , Lei Liu , Masashi Sugiyama

In this paper, we propose a balancing training method to address problems in imbalanced data learning. To this end, we derive a new loss used in the balancing training phase that alleviates the influence of samples that cause an overfitted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Seulki Park , Jongin Lim , Younghan Jeon , Jin Young Choi

Choosing a suitable loss function is essential when learning by empirical risk minimisation. In many practical cases, the datasets used for training a classifier may contain incorrect labels, which prompts the interest for using loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Fábio C. C. Meneghetti , Sueli I. R. Costa

Learning from Preferences in Reinforcement Learning (PbRL) has gained attention recently, as it serves as a natural fit for complicated tasks where the reward function is not easily available. However, preferences often come with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuxuan Li , Harshith Reddy Kethireddy , Srijita Das

Visual prompting, an efficient method for transfer learning, has shown its potential in vision tasks. However, previous works focus exclusively on VP from standard source models, it is still unknown how it performs under the scenario of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Qi Li , Liangzhi Li , Zhouqiang Jiang , Bowen Wang

The random vector functional link (RVFL) network is well-regarded for its strong generalization capabilities in the field of machine learning. However, its inherent dependencies on the square loss function make it susceptible to noise and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 M. Sajid , A. Quadir , M. Tanveer

Real-world training data is often noisy; for example, human annotators assign conflicting class labels to the same instances. Partial-label learning (PLL) is a weakly supervised learning paradigm that allows training classifiers in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Tobias Fuchs , Florian Kalinke

Algorithms which minimize the averaged loss have been widely designed for dealing with noisy labels. Intuitively, when there is a finite training sample, penalizing the variance of losses will improve the stability and generalization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yexiong Lin , Yu Yao , Yuxuan Du , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Object grasping is a crucial technology enabling robots to perceive and interact with the environment sufficiently. However, in practical applications, researchers are faced with missing or noisy ground truth while training the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yangfan Deng , Mengyao Zhang , Yong Zhao

Variational hybrid quantum-classical optimization represents one of the most promising avenue to show the advantage of nowadays noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers in solving hard problems, such as finding the minimum-energy state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Laura Gentini , Alessandro Cuccoli , Stefano Pirandola , Paola Verrucchi , Leonardo Banchi

Algorithms in machine learning and AI do critically depend on at least three key components: (i) the risk function, which is the expectation of the loss function, (ii) the function space, which is often called the hypothesis space, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Lena Helgerth , Andreas Christmann

Recently, video recognition is emerging with the help of multi-modal learning, which focuses on integrating distinct modalities to improve the performance or robustness of the model. Although various multi-modal learning methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Haochen Han , Qinghua Zheng , Minnan Luo , Kaiyao Miao , Feng Tian , Yan Chen

Robust learning from noisy demonstrations is a practical but highly challenging problem in imitation learning. In this paper, we first theoretically show that robust imitation learning can be achieved by optimizing a classification risk…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-22 Voot Tangkaratt , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Masashi Sugiyama

Learning with noisy labels is an important and challenging task for training accurate deep neural networks. Some commonly-used loss functions, such as Cross Entropy (CE), suffer from severe overfitting to noisy labels. Robust loss functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Xiong Zhou , Xianming Liu , Chenyang Wang , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Contrastive learning relies on an assumption that positive pairs contain related views, e.g., patches of an image or co-occurring multimodal signals of a video, that share certain underlying information about an instance. But what if this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Ching-Yao Chuang , R Devon Hjelm , Xin Wang , Vibhav Vineet , Neel Joshi , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka , Yale Song