Generative model combines multi-dimensional annotations for more accurate ground truth estimation.
problem Inaccurate ground truth estimation from naive annotators' multi-dimensional annotations.
method Proposes a joint multi-dimensional model for global and time-series annotation fusion using Expectation-Maximization algorithm.
result More accurate ground truth estimates through joint modeling of multiple dimensions.
Ranking a set of objects involves establishing an order allowing for comparisons between any pair of objects in the set. Oftentimes, due to the unavailability of a ground truth of ranked orders, researchers resort to obtaining judgments from multiple annotators followed by inferring the ground truth based on the collec…
Study corrects misaligned cadaster maps using noisy supervision.
problem Correcting misaligned cadaster maps with noisy supervision data.
method Iterative training rounds to refine ground truth annotations.
result Reduces noise in cadaster map alignment datasets.
Coarse ground truth improves semantic segmentation accuracy for some classes.
problem Efficiently preparing high-quality datasets for autonomous driving.
method Comparative analysis of fine and coarse ground truth annotations on Cityscapes dataset using PSPNet.
result Coarse ground truth annotations can improve semantic segmentation accuracy for some classes without significant loss.
Universally valid ground truth is almost impossible to obtain or would come at a very high cost. For supervised learning without universally valid ground truth, a recommended approach is applying crowdsourcing: Gathering a large data set annotated by multiple individuals of varying possibly expertise levels and inferri…
Training 3D object detectors for autonomous driving has been limited to small datasets due to the effort required to generate annotations. Reducing both task complexity and the amount of task switching done by annotators is key to reducing the effort and time required to generate 3D bounding box annotations. This paper…
Evaluates change point detection algorithms on real-world data.
problem Insufficient evaluation of change point detection algorithms on real-world time series.
method Developed a data set of 37 time series from various domains, annotated by human experts, and evaluated 14 algorithms using consistency metrics.
result Demonstrates the need for better evaluation methods in change point detection.
A popular approach for large scale data annotation tasks is crowdsourcing, wherein each data point is labeled by multiple noisy annotators. We consider the problem of inferring ground truth from noisy ordinal labels obtained from multiple annotators of varying and unknown expertise levels. Annotation models for ordinal…
Automated radar data labeling using GNSS improves efficiency without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Manual annotation of automotive radar data is time-consuming and error-prone.
method The article introduces an automated system using GNSS to acquire data labels.
result The proposed method provides clear advantages in time savings with minimal data distortion.
Crowdsourcing has been proven to be an effective and efficient tool to annotate large datasets. User annotations are often noisy, so methods to combine the annotations to produce reliable estimates of the ground truth are necessary. We claim that considering the existence of clusters of users in this combination step c…
End-to-end framework learns from imperfect annotations directly.
problem Training machine learning models on imperfect human annotations.
method End-to-end framework merging aggregation with model training and modeling annotator competencies.
result Accuracy gains of up to 25% over state-of-the-art annotation aggregation methods.
MCAL reduces labeling costs by 6x for auto-labeling data sets.
problem Expensive human annotation for ground-truth data sets.
method Iterative approach that trains a classifier to auto-label part of the data set, determining which samples to label using humans and which to label using the classifier at each step.
result 6x lower overall cost compared to human labeling the entire data set, always cheaper than competing strategies.
This work embeds annotations into a multidimensional space to measure classification difficulty.
problem Uncertainty in machine learning models during annotation phase.
method Develops a Bayesian Dirichlet-Multinomial framework to embed annotations and uses stochastic Expectation Maximization with MCMC.
result Embeddings reflect semantic similarities of original classes, aiding in measuring classification difficulty.
New method accounts for uncertainty in medical AI evaluations.
problem Uncertainty in ground truth affects AI model performance estimates.
method Statistical aggregation approach to infer probabilities of medical conditions.
result Performance estimates are significantly lower when uncertainty is accounted for.
Method learns true labels from noisy annotators using regularization.
problem Learning from noisy labels in supervised learning.
method Regularized estimation of annotator confusion matrices.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in image classification.
Paper tackles active learning under human label variation, proposing a new framework.
problem Active learning assumes a single ground truth, ignoring human label variation.
method Survey and propose a conceptual framework for HLV-aware active learning.
result Lay a conceptual foundation for HLV-aware active learning.
Logistic regression can handle noisy labels effectively when labels are imperfectly assigned by multiple experts.
problem Label noise in supervised classification due to manual labelling by multiple experts.
method Using approximate posterior probabilities of class membership from multiple experts to train logistic regression models.
result Logistic regression can be robust to label noise when classification difficulty is the only source of errors.
Interactive weak supervision learns useful heuristics from user feedback.
problem Creating useful heuristics for large labeled datasets is tedious and subjective.
method Develops an interactive framework for learning heuristics from user feedback.
result Only a few feedback iterations are needed to train models without ground truth labels.
Learning algorithms normally assume that there is at most one annotation or label per data point. However, in some scenarios, such as medical diagnosis and on-line collaboration,multiple annotations may be available. In either case, obtaining labels for data points can be expensive and time-consuming (in some circumsta…
Structured learning is appropriate when predicting structured outputs such as trees, graphs, or sequences. Most prior work requires the training set to consist of complete trees, graphs or sequences. Specifying such detailed ground truth can be tedious or infeasible for large outputs. Our main contribution is a large m…
Paper presents method for generating synthetic data to evaluate GPMs in complex environments.
problem Lack of realistic scenarios and datasets to evaluate GPMs in complex environments.
method Agile knowledge representation framework to model requirements and generate synthetic ground truth data.
result Synthetic data can be generated to robustly evaluate GPMs in complex environments.
A novel method detects multiple mitosis events and mitigates annotation gaps in phase-contrast microscopy.
problem Detecting multiple mitosis events and handling annotation gaps in closely placed cells.
method Estimating a spatiotemporal likelihood map via 3DCNN to detect multiple mitosis events and mitigate annotation gaps.
result Our method outperformed compared methods in terms of F1-score using a challenging dataset.
Bayesian model improves truth inference from highly redundant crowd annotations.
problem Inferring true annotations from highly redundant crowd annotations.
method Bayesian graphical model with conjugate priors and iterative expectation-maximisation inference.
result Our technique significantly outperforms majority vote heuristic at one-sided level 0.025.
This paper refines human labeling as a measurement process, revealing four sources of variation.
problem Systematic variation in human labeling obscures model learning.
method Introduces a statistical framework to decompose labeling outcomes.
result Empirical evidence for four components of labeling variation.
Synthetic image translation has significant potentials in autonomous transportation systems. That is due to the expense of data collection and annotation as well as the unmanageable diversity of real-words situations. The main issue with unpaired image-to-image translation is the ill-posed nature of the problem. In thi…
Study compares DSPy teleprompter algorithms for aligning LLM evaluations with human annotations.
problem Aligning LLM evaluation metrics with human annotations.
method Comparative analysis of five teleprompter algorithms within the DSPy framework.
result Certain teleprompters outperform others in detecting hallucinations.
Pretrained model improves visual dialog performance.
problem Improving performance in visual dialog tasks.
method Pretrained ViLBERT model on vision-language datasets, fine-tuned on VisDial.
result Best model outperforms prior work by more than 1% on NDCG and MRR.
Algorithm selects best sensor tests for unknown outcomes.
problem Selecting optimal sensors in unsupervised systems.
method Developed an algorithm for stochastic partial monitoring under Weak Dominance property.
result Algorithm achieves sub-linear regret in sensor selection.
Study real-world noisy labels from human annotations for better understanding.
problem Understanding and modeling real-world label noise in machine learning.
method Developed two new benchmark datasets (CIFAR-10N, CIFAR-100N) with human-annotated real-world noisy labels.
result Real-world noisy labels exhibit instance-dependent patterns, not class-dependent as previously assumed.
VoxCeleb 2019 challenge assesses speaker recognition in uncontrolled settings.
problem Evaluate speaker recognition technology in unconstrained data.
method Public dataset, challenge, and workshop at Interspeech 2019.
result Baseline results and discussions provided.
Paper proposes metrics to evaluate AI explanations without ground truth.
problem Challenges in evaluating neural network explanations without ground truth.
method Designs four metrics to evaluate explanation results.
result New insights into neural network interpretation methods.
Bayesian algorithms improve crowdsourcing with label and instance constraints.
problem Efficiently labeling large datasets with additional human annotator information.
method Developed Bayesian algorithms for semi-supervised crowdsourced classification under label and instance constraints.
result Improved performance compared to unsupervised crowdsourcing on various datasets.
New models can't beat existing ones, so debiasing methods only slightly reduce needed labels.
problem Limiting scalability in model evaluation due to self-preferencing biases.
method Study of debiasing methods using a few high-quality labels to reduce model judgments.
result Debiasing methods can't decrease required ground truth labels by more than half when the judge is no more accurate than the model.
Paper proposes a method to recover accurate labels from partially valid data in multi-label learning.
problem Tackles noisy supervision in multi-label learning with partially valid labels.
method Develops a two-stage method that estimates label enrichment and ground-truth confidences.
result Demonstrates improved performance over state-of-the-art PML methods.
Tests for classifier independence without ground truth labels.
problem Validation of classifier independence without ground truth labels.
method Exact solution for independent binary classifiers using algebraic geometry.
result Self-consistent test for classifier independence without ground truth labels.
Crowdsourcing has become very popular among the machine learning community as a way to obtain labels that allow a ground truth to be estimated for a given dataset. In most of the approaches that use crowdsourced labels, annotators are asked to provide, for each presented instance, a single class label. Such a request c…
Paper tackles noisy annotations by considering workers' attention levels.
problem Noisy annotations from workers with varying expertise.
method Proposes a probabilistic model that incorporates workers' attention for accurate label quality estimation.
result Improves aggregated labels by quantifying the relationship between workers' attention and label quality.
RealCause provides a realistic benchmark for causal inference.
problem Lack of a reliable benchmark for comparing causal effect estimators.
method Flexible generative models to create a benchmark that is both ground-truth and realistic.
result Evaluation of over 1500 causal estimators provides evidence for choosing hyperparameters using predictive metrics.
A new score measures data reliability without ground truth.
problem Assessing reliability of datasets without access to ground truth.
method Define ground-truth-based orderings and propose Gram determinant score.
result Gram determinant score effectively captures data quality across diverse observation processes.
Vision algorithms capable of interpreting scenes from a real-time video stream are necessary for computer-assisted surgery systems to achieve context-aware behavior. In laparoscopic procedures one particular algorithm needed for such systems is the identification of surgical phases, for which the current state of the a…
New technique reduces bias in DNN models without sensitive attribute annotations.
problem Existing bias mitigation methods require instance-level annotations and do not guarantee removal of all sensitive information.
method Representation Neutralization for Fairness (RNF) debiases only the classification head of DNN models using neutralized representations.
result RNF effectively reduces discrimination of DNN models with minimal performance degradation.
Recently developed deep-learning-based denoisers often outperform state-of-the-art conventional denoisers such as the BM3D. They are typically trained to minimize the mean squared error (MSE) between the output image of a deep neural network (DNN) and a ground truth image. Thus, it is important for deep-learning-based …
Estimates classifier errors without ground truth using algebraic geometry.
problem Lack of ground truth in real-world production systems.
method Non-parametric estimation using algebraic geometry to solve the self-assessment problem.
result Accuracy estimators are better than one part in a hundred.
This work improves deep learning from noisy crowdsourced labels.
problem Learning label correction and neural classifier from noisy crowdsourced data.
method Coupled Cross-Entropy Minimization (CCEM) with identifiability and regularization.
result The CCEM criterion correctly identifies annotators' confusion and neural classifier under realistic conditions.
PPI uses proxy data to improve inference from limited labels across related tasks.
problem Statistical inference with limited labels across multiple related tasks.
method Prediction-powered inference framework that uses cross-task recalibration to improve power and accuracy.
result Cross-task recalibration can substantially reduce confidence interval widths when labels are scarce.
Paper introduces metrics to evaluate missing data imputation without ground truth.
problem Handling missing data in time series without ground truth.
method Introduces Wasserstein distance (WD) and Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) as metrics to evaluate imputation quality.
result WD and JSD are effective metrics for assessing missing data imputation quality.
Error correction for correlated regressors using compressed sensing.
problem Measuring errors in regression tasks with sparse correlations.
method Compressed sensing applied to error signals, with ℓ1-minimization for uniqueness. result Correct solution recovery in settings of error correction.
QUACKIE creates a new benchmark for NLP interpretability.
problem Evaluating NLP interpretability methods is challenging due to biased ground truths.
method Formulated a custom classification task from question-answering datasets, generating unbiased ground truths.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of current interpretability methods on the new benchmark.