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Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL) has attracted significant attention from the research community. Many recent LNL methods rely on the assumption that clean samples tend to have "small loss". However, this assumption always fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 MingCai Chen , Yu Zhao , Bing He , Zongbo Han , Bingzhe Wu , Jianhua Yao

We consider the problem of training a model under the presence of label noise. Current approaches identify samples with potentially incorrect labels and reduce their influence on the learning process by either assigning lower weights to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Duc Tam Nguyen , Thi-Phuong-Nhung Ngo , Zhongyu Lou , Michael Klar , Laura Beggel , Thomas Brox

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

A natural way of estimating heteroscedastic label noise in regression is to model the observed (potentially noisy) target as a sample from a normal distribution, whose parameters can be learned by minimizing the negative log-likelihood.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Erik Englesson , Amir Mehrpanah , Hossein Azizpour

Deep neural networks tend to memorize noisy labels, severely degrading their generalization performance. Although Mixup has demonstrated effectiveness in improving generalization and robustness, existing Mixup-based methods typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Qiuhao Liu , Ling Li , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan , Zhaowei Zhu , Jiaheng Wei

Real-world datasets commonly have noisy labels, which negatively affects the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs). In order to address this problem, we propose a label noise robust learning algorithm, in which the base classifier is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

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

Label noise significantly degrades the generalization ability of deep models in applications. Effective strategies and approaches, \textit{e.g.} re-weighting, or loss correction, are designed to alleviate the negative impact of label noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Haoliang Sun , Chenhui Guo , Qi Wei , Zhongyi Han , Yilong Yin

We consider the learning from noisy labels (NL) problem which emerges in many real-world applications. In addition to the widely-studied synthetic noise in the NL literature, we also consider the pseudo labels in semi-supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Tsung Wei Tsai , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

Mislabeled samples are ubiquitous in real-world datasets as rule-based or expert labeling is usually based on incorrect assumptions or subject to biased opinions. Neural networks can "memorize" these mislabeled samples and, as a result,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Katharina Rombach , Gabriel Michau , Olga Fink

Multi-label learning is a challenging computer vision task that requires assigning multiple categories to each image. However, fully annotating large-scale datasets is often impractical due to high costs and effort, motivating the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Luong Tran , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen , Sang Dinh , Van Nguyen

Manual labelling of training examples is common practice in supervised learning. When the labelling task is of non-trivial difficulty, the supplied labels may not be equal to the ground-truth labels, and label noise is introduced into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-08 Daniel Ahfock , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

While crowdsourcing has emerged as a practical solution for labeling large datasets, it presents a significant challenge in learning accurate models due to noisy labels from annotators with varying levels of expertise. Existing methods…

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Prompt learning has gained significant attention as a parameter-efficient approach for adapting large pre-trained vision-language models to downstream tasks. However, when only partial labels are available, its performance is often limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yaqi Zhao , Haoliang Sun , Yating Wang , Yongshun Gong , Yilong Yin

Robust loss minimization is an important strategy for handling robust learning issue on noisy labels. Current robust loss functions, however, inevitably involve hyperparameter(s) to be tuned, manually or heuristically through cross…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jun Shu , Qian Zhao , Keyu Chen , Zongben Xu , Deyu Meng

Supervised deep learning depends on massive accurately annotated examples, which is usually impractical in many real-world scenarios. A typical alternative is learning from multiple noisy annotators. Numerous earlier works assume that all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shikun Li , Tongliang Liu , Jiyong Tan , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

In partial multi-label learning (PML), each instance is associated with a set of candidate labels containing both ground-truth and noisy labels. The presence of noisy labels disrupts the correspondence between features and labels, degrading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Chen , Weijun Lv , Yue Huang , Xiaozhao Fang , Jie Wen , Yong Xu , Guanbin Li

In supervised machine learning, models are typically trained using data with hard labels, i.e., definite assignments of class membership. This traditional approach, however, does not take the inherent uncertainty in these labels into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Sjoerd de Vries , Dirk Thierens

Deep neural networks are susceptible to label noise. Existing methods to improve robustness, such as meta-learning and regularization, usually require significant change to the network architecture or careful tuning of the optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Li Chen , Ningyuan Huang , Cong Mu , Hayden S. Helm , Kate Lytvynets , Weiwei Yang , Carey E. Priebe

Real-world datasets commonly exhibit noisy labels and class imbalance, such as long-tailed distributions. While previous research addresses this issue by differentiating noisy and clean samples, reliance on information from predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ying-Hsuan Wu , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Li Xin , Shin-You Teng , Yi-Kuan Hsieh , Ming-Ching Chang