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We investigate the problem of machine learning with mislabeled training data. We try to make the effects of mislabeled training better understood through analysis of the basic model and equations that characterize the problem. This includes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Herbert Gish , Jan Silovsky , Man-Ling Sung , Man-Hung Siu , William Hartmann , Zhuolin Jiang

The performance of machine learning models often relies on large labeled datasets; however, data collected from diverse sources can contain label noise. Recent work has shown that, in noisy settings, there may exist a subset of the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Kumar Shubham , Pavan Karjol , Kiran M K , Prathosh AP

In many domains, collecting sufficient labeled training data for supervised machine learning requires easily accessible but noisy sources, such as crowdsourcing services or tagged Web data. Noisy labels occur frequently in data sets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Matthew Klawonn , Eric Heim , James Hendler

Noisy labels are inevitable in large real-world datasets. In this work, we explore an area understudied by previous works -- how the network's architecture impacts its robustness to noisy labels. We provide a formal framework connecting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jingling Li , Mozhi Zhang , Keyulu Xu , John P. Dickerson , Jimmy Ba

Machine learning models are often susceptible to adversarial perturbations of their inputs. Even small perturbations can cause state-of-the-art classifiers with high "standard" accuracy to produce an incorrect prediction with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Ludwig Schmidt , Shibani Santurkar , Dimitris Tsipras , Kunal Talwar , Aleksander Mądry

Incorrect labels in training data occur when human annotators make mistakes or when the data is generated via weak or distant supervision. It has been shown that complex noise-handling techniques - by modeling, cleaning or filtering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Dawei Zhu , Michael A. Hedderich , Fangzhou Zhai , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Dietrich Klakow

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of computer vision tasks, where massive labeled images are routinely required for model optimization. Yet, the data collected from the open world are unavoidably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Peng Cui , Yang Yue , Zhijie Deng , Jun Zhu

The presence of noisy labels in a training dataset can significantly impact the performance of machine learning models. To tackle this issue, researchers have explored methods for Learning with Noisy Labels to identify clean samples and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Sumyeong Ahn , Sihyeon Kim , Jongwoo Ko , Se-Young Yun

Deep learning with noisy labels presents significant challenges. In this work, we theoretically characterize the role of label noise from a feature learning perspective. Specifically, we consider a signal-noise data distribution, where each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Andi Han , Wei Huang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Gang Niu , Wuyang Chen , Junchi Yan , Akiko Takeda , Taiji Suzuki

Large datasets in NLP suffer from noisy labels, due to erroneous automatic and human annotation procedures. We study the problem of text classification with label noise, and aim to capture this noise through an auxiliary noise model over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Siddhant Garg , Goutham Ramakrishnan , Varun Thumbe

Label noise is ubiquitous in various machine learning scenarios such as self-labeling with model predictions and erroneous data annotation. Many existing approaches are based on heuristics such as sample losses, which might not be flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhihao Wang , Zongyu Lin , Peiqi Liu , Guidong ZHeng , Junjie Wen , Xianxin Chen , Yujun Chen , Zhilin Yang

Adversarial robustness has proven to be a required property of machine learning algorithms. A key and often overlooked aspect of this problem is to try to make the adversarial noise magnitude as large as possible to enhance the benefits of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-31 Amirreza Shaeiri , Rozhin Nobahari , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Neural machine translation systems typically are trained on curated corpora and break when faced with non-standard orthography or punctuation. Resilience to spelling mistakes and typos, however, is crucial as machine translation systems are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Toms Bergmanis , Artūrs Stafanovičs , Mārcis Pinnis

Often, the data used to train ranking models is subject to label noise. For example, in web-search, labels created from clickstream data are noisy due to issues such as insufficient information in item descriptions on the SERP, query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Dany Haddad

Robust loss minimization is an important strategy for handling robust learning issue on noisy labels. Current approaches for designing robust losses involve the introduction of noise-robust factors, i.e., hyperparameters, to control the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Kehui Ding , Jun Shu , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

State-of-the art vision models can achieve superhuman performance on image classification tasks when testing and training data come from the same distribution. However, when models are tested on corrupted images (e.g. due to scale changes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Luke Metz , Niru Maheswaranathan , Jonathon Shlens , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Ekin D. Cubuk

Sensitivity to adversarial noise hinders deployment of machine learning algorithms in security-critical applications. Although many adversarial defenses have been proposed, robustness to adversarial noise remains an open problem. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

The great success of transformer-based models in natural language processing (NLP) has led to various attempts at adapting these architectures to other domains such as vision and audio. Recent work has shown that transformers can outperform…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Khaled Koutini , Jan Schlüter , Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

To discover intrinsic inter-class transition probabilities underlying data, learning with noise transition has become an important approach for robust deep learning on corrupted labels. Prior methods attempt to achieve such transition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jun Shu , Qian Zhao , Zongben Xu , Deyu Meng

Because deep learning is vulnerable to noisy labels, sample selection techniques, which train networks with only clean labeled data, have attracted a great attention. However, if the labels are dominantly corrupted by few classes, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Kyeongbo Kong , Junggi Lee , Youngchul Kwak , Young-Rae Cho , Seong-Eun Kim , Woo-Jin Song