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48 results for labeled datasets

Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on large-scale datasets have exhibited significant performance in image classification. Many large-scale datasets are collected from websites, however they tend to contain inaccurate labels that are termed as noisy labels. Training on such noisy labeled datasets causes performance de…

2018-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

MTL method uses unlabeled data with pseudo labels to improve classification with disjoint datasets.

problem Improving classification performance with disjoint labeled datasets using unlabeled data.
method Proposes MTL-SA method to select and augment unlabeled data with confident pseudo labels and close distribution to labeled data.
result Extensive experiments show the effectiveness of MTL-SA method in improving classification performance.

Labels distilled from images improve model training efficiency and flexibility.

problem Creating synthetic labels for a small set of real images to train models effectively.
method Introduce a more robust and flexible meta-learning algorithm for distillation and an effective first-order strategy based on convex optimization layers.
result Label distillation leads to improved results and greater flexibility in neural architectures.

Machine learning approaches to multi-label document classification have to date largely relied on discriminative modeling techniques such as support vector machines. A drawback of these approaches is that performance rapidly drops off as the total number of labels and the number of labels per document increase. This pr…

2011-07-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals pervasive label errors in test sets, affecting machine learning benchmarks.

problem Label errors in test sets destabilize machine learning benchmarks.
method Identified label errors in 10 common datasets using confident learning algorithms and human validation.
result Lower capacity models may be more useful in real-world datasets with high proportions of erroneously labeled data.

Unravelling hidden patterns in datasets is a classical problem with many potential applications. In this paper, we present a challenge whose objective is to discover nonlinear relationships in noisy cloud of points. If a set of point satisfies a nonlinear relationship that is unlikely to be due to randomness, we will l…

2018-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent approaches based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) have shown promising results for named-entity recognition (NER). In order to achieve high performances, ANNs need to be trained on a large labeled dataset. However, labels might be difficult to obtain for the dataset on which the user wants to perform NER: la…

2017-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Proposes methods to improve multi-label learning by addressing local label imbalance.

problem Local label imbalance within minority class examples degrades multi-label learning performance.
method Introduces a measure to assess local label imbalance and two sampling approaches (MLSOL, MLUL) to address it.
result Experimental results show MLSOL and MLUL improve performance on multi-label datasets.

Dataset distillation is a method for reducing dataset sizes by learning a small number of synthetic samples containing all the information of a large dataset. This has several benefits like speeding up model training, reducing energy consumption, and reducing required storage space. Currently, each synthetic sample is …

2019-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates calibration error under label shift without labels.

problem Ensuring model reliability in the face of dataset shift without access to labels.
method Importance re-weighting of the labeled source distribution to estimate calibration error under label shift.
result Effective and reliable CE estimation with respect to the shifted target distribution.

Doubly robust self-training improves semi-supervised learning by balancing labeled and pseudo-labeled data.

problem Improving semi-supervised learning performance with limited labeled data.
method Introduces doubly robust self-training, a method that combines labeled and pseudo-labeled data to balance between labeled-only and pseudo-labeled-only training.
result Demonstrates superior performance of doubly robust self-training on ImageNet and nuScenes datasets.

A new sampling method balances multi-label datasets by preserving category frequency order.

problem Sampling challenges in multi-label datasets with varying label frequencies.
method Uses multivariate Bernoulli distribution and label dependencies to estimate and weight label combinations.
result Produces a more balanced sub-sample with enhanced representation of minority categories.

Over the last couple of years, deep learning and especially convolutional neural networks have become one of the work horses of computer vision. One limiting factor for the applicability of supervised deep learning to more areas is the need for large, manually labeled datasets. In this paper we propose an easy to imple…

2017-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces methods for more reliable probabilistic predictions with confidence intervals.

problem Inaccurate labeling of datasets due to unreliable probabilistic predictions from weak labeling functions.
method Proposes a methodology to provide confidence intervals for label probabilities using uncertainty sets of distributions.
result Improves reliability of probabilistic predictions and provides confidence intervals for label probabilities.

We present a novel approach to leverage large unlabeled datasets by pre-training state-of-the-art deep neural networks on randomly-labeled datasets. Specifically, we train the neural networks to memorize arbitrary labels for all the samples in a dataset and use these pre-trained networks as a starting point for regular…

2018-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

A two-stage optimization framework reduces label noise in federated learning.

problem Label noise from noisy clients degrades federated learning model performance.
method MaskedOptim framework: detects noisy clients, corrects labels, and aggregates models robustly.
result Our framework improves model robustness and data quality in federated learning.

Algorithm constructs prediction sets with PAC guarantees in label shift settings.

problem Reliable uncertainty quantification in the face of distribution shift.
method Estimates predicted probabilities and confusion matrix, then propagates uncertainty through Gaussian elimination to compute confidence intervals and construct prediction sets.
result Satisfies PAC guarantees and produces smaller, more informative prediction sets.

Datasets often contain biases which unfairly disadvantage certain groups, and classifiers trained on such datasets can inherit these biases. In this paper, we provide a mathematical formulation of how this bias can arise. We do so by assuming the existence of underlying, unknown, and unbiased labels which are overwritt…

2019-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

New method tackles label noise on imbalanced datasets by considering class-specific uncertainty.

problem Label noise and class imbalance in imbalanced datasets.
method Epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty-aware class-specific noise modeling.
result Proposed ULC framework improves performance on imbalanced datasets.

Learning exists in the context of data, yet notions of confidence typically focus on model predictions, not label quality. Confident learning (CL) is an alternative approach which focuses instead on label quality by characterizing and identifying label errors in datasets, based on the principles of pruning noisy data, …

2019-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

APLC-XLNet improves XMTC by clustering labels and reducing computational time.

problem Efficiently tagging texts with many labels from a large set.
method Fine-tunes XLNet with APLC to approximate cross entropy loss.
result Achieved state-of-the-art results on XMTC benchmarks.

Instance- and Label-dependent label Noise (ILN) widely exists in real-world datasets but has been rarely studied. In this paper, we focus on Bounded Instance- and Label-dependent label Noise (BILN), a particular case of ILN where the label noise rates -- the probabilities that the true labels of examples flip into the …

2017-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new model for noisy labels considering multiple labelers and adversarial attacks.

problem Real-world noisy label models with multiple labelers and adversarial attacks.
method Labeler-dependent noise model with adversarial attack vectors.
result State-of-the-art approaches for learning from noisy labels are defeated by adversarial label attacks.

New loss functions improve extreme classification with missing labels.

problem Large number of infrequent labels and missing labels in XMC.
method Derive unbiased loss functions for XMC, incorporating them into existing algorithms.
result Significant improvement in extreme classification performance (up to 20%) over existing methods.

Paper tackles label noise in large datasets, purifying noisy data with a nonparametric framework.

problem Label noise in large-scale datasets with coarse labels.
method Develops a model-agnostic nonparametric framework for classification.
result Framework purifies noisy data using a small clean dataset and manages ambiguous samples.

Multi-label classification (MLC) is the task of assigning a set of target labels for a given sample. Modeling the combinatorial label interactions in MLC has been a long-haul challenge. We propose Label Message Passing (LaMP) Neural Networks to efficiently model the joint prediction of multiple labels. LaMP treats labe…

2019-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗