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Label noise poses a significant challenge in Earth Observation (EO), often degrading the performance and reliability of supervised Machine Learning (ML) models. Yet, given the critical nature of several EO applications, developing robust…

The prevalence of noisy labels in real-world datasets poses a significant impediment to the effective deployment of deep learning models. While meta-learning strategies have emerged as a promising approach for addressing this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Mengyang Li

It is important to learn various types of classifiers given training data with noisy labels. Noisy labels, in the most popular noise model hitherto, are corrupted from ground-truth labels by an unknown noise transition matrix. Thus, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Bo Han , Jiangchao Yao , Gang Niu , Mingyuan Zhou , Ivor Tsang , Ya Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

Most existing methods that cope with noisy labels usually assume that the class distributions are well balanced, which has insufficient capacity to deal with the practical scenarios where training samples have imbalanced distributions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Huiyan Qi , Dingwen Zhang

In this paper we develop a principled, probabilistic, unified approach to non-standard classification tasks, such as semi-supervised, positive-unlabelled, multi-positive-unlabelled and noisy-label learning. We train a classifier on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Jeppe Nørregaard , Lars Kai Hansen

Statistically consistent methods based on the noise transition matrix ($T$) offer a theoretically grounded solution to Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL), with guarantees of convergence to the optimal clean-data classifier. In practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Chen Feng , Zhuo Zhi , Zhao Huang , Jiawei Ge , Ling Xiao , Nicu Sebe , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

The development of accurate methods for multi-label classification (MLC) of remote sensing (RS) images is one of the most important research topics in RS. The MLC methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Ahmet Kerem Aksoy , Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Begüm Demir

In noisy label learning, estimating noisy class posteriors plays a fundamental role for developing consistent classifiers, as it forms the basis for estimating clean class posteriors and the transition matrix. Existing methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Rui Zhao , Bin Shi , Jianfei Ruan , Tianze Pan , Bo Dong

Deep models trained with noisy labels are prone to over-fitting and struggle in generalization. Most existing solutions are based on an ideal assumption that the label noise is class-conditional, i.e., instances of the same class share the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Ganlong Zhao , Guanbin Li , Yipeng Qin , Feng Liu , Yizhou Yu

In this paper we propose a novel methodology to construct Optimal Classification Trees that takes into account that noisy labels may occur in the training sample. Our approach rests on two main elements: (1) the splitting rules for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Víctor Blanco , Alberto Japón , Justo Puerto

Deep-learning-based image classification frameworks often suffer from the noisy label problem caused by the inter-observer variation. Recent studies employed learning-to-learn paradigms (e.g., Co-teaching and JoCoR) to filter the samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Ziqi Zhang , Yuexiang Li , Hongxin Wei , Kai Ma , Tao Xu , Yefeng Zheng

For classification tasks, deep neural networks are prone to overfitting in the presence of label noise. Although existing methods are able to alleviate this problem at low noise levels, they encounter significant performance reduction at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jingyi Xu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Kai Fong Ernest Chong

Learning with noisy labels has gained increasing attention because the inevitable imperfect labels in real-world scenarios can substantially hurt the deep model performance. Recent studies tend to regard low-loss samples as clean ones and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Huafeng Liu , Mengmeng Sheng , Zeren Sun , Yazhou Yao , Xian-Sheng Hua , Heng-Tao Shen

Noisy labels are both inevitable and problematic in machine learning methods, as they negatively impact models' generalization ability by causing overfitting. In the context of learning with noise, the transition matrix plays a crucial role…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jiahui Li , Tai-Wei Chang , Kun Kuang , Ximing Li , Long Chen , Jun Zhou

We study the task of Multiclass Linear Classification (MLC) in the distribution-free PAC model with Random Classification Noise (RCN). Specifically, the learner is given a set of labeled examples $(x, y)$, where $x$ is drawn from an unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Mingchen Ma , Lisheng Ren , Christos Tzamos

Immune repertoire classification, a typical multiple instance learning (MIL) problem, is a frontier research topic in computational biology that makes transformative contributions to new vaccines and immune therapies. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Mingcai Chen , Yu Zhao , Zhonghuang Wang , Bing He , Jianhua Yao

Label noise is a common problem in real-world datasets, affecting both model training and validation. Clean data are essential for achieving strong performance and ensuring reliable evaluation. While various techniques have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Henrique Pickler , Jorge K. S. Kamassury , Danilo Silva

Most studies on learning from noisy labels rely on unrealistic models of i.i.d. label noise, such as class-conditional transition matrices. More recent work on instance-dependent noise models are more realistic, but assume a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Glenn Dawson , Robi Polikar

Label Ranking (LR) corresponds to the problem of learning a hypothesis that maps features to rankings over a finite set of labels. We adopt a nonparametric regression approach to LR and obtain theoretical performance guarantees for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Dimitris Fotakis , Alkis Kalavasis , Eleni Psaroudaki

Collecting large-scale datasets is crucial for training deep models, annotating the data, however, inevitably yields noisy labels, which poses challenges to deep learning algorithms. Previous efforts tend to mitigate this problem via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao