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Survey on deep learning robust training methods for noisy labels.
The paper tackles noisy multi-armed bandit problems with improved regret guarantees.
Optimizes noisy IS with better proposal densities.
A scalable portfolio approach speeds up Bayesian optimization for noisy functions.
The ability of learning from noisy labels is very useful in many visual recognition tasks, as a vast amount of data with noisy labels are relatively easy to obtain. Traditionally, the label noises have been treated as statistical outliers, and approaches such as importance re-weighting and bootstrap have been proposed …
CbMLC improves multi-label classification with noisy labels.
Online knowledge repositories typically rely on their users or dedicated editors to evaluate the reliability of their content. These evaluations can be viewed as noisy measurements of both information reliability and information source trustworthiness. Can we leverage these noisy evaluations, often biased, to distill a…
VBMC+VIQR outperforms noisy models in Bayesian inference.
We address the problem of maximizing an unknown submodular function that can only be accessed via noisy evaluations. Our work is motivated by the task of summarizing content, e.g., image collections, by leveraging users' feedback in form of clicks or ratings. For summarization tasks with the goal of maximizing coverage…
We study the problem of black-box optimization of a noisy function in the presence of low-cost approximations or fidelities, which is motivated by problems like hyper-parameter tuning. In hyper-parameter tuning evaluating the black-box function at a point involves training a learning algorithm on a large data-set at a …
This paper introduces Task 2 of the DCASE2019 Challenge, titled "Audio tagging with noisy labels and minimal supervision". This task was hosted on the Kaggle platform as "Freesound Audio Tagging 2019". The task evaluates systems for multi-label audio tagging using a large set of noisy-labeled data, and a much smaller s…
NES improves robust optimization with noisy inputs.
We consider Bayesian inference when only a limited number of noisy log-likelihood evaluations can be obtained. This occurs for example when complex simulator-based statistical models are fitted to data, and synthetic likelihood (SL) method is used to form the noisy log-likelihood estimates using computationally costly …
Enhances clustering quality evaluation in noisy data.
Study on noise models for noisy labels in NLP.
In this paper we propose a modified version of the simulated annealing algorithm for solving a stochastic global optimization problem. More precisely, we address the problem of finding a global minimizer of a function with noisy evaluations. We provide a rate of convergence and its optimized parametrization to ensure a…
Heart diseases constitute a global health burden, and the problem is exacerbated by the error-prone nature of listening to and interpreting heart sounds. This motivates the development of automated classification to screen for abnormal heart sounds. Existing machine learning-based systems achieve accurate classificatio…
This paper provides lower bounds on the convergence rate of Derivative Free Optimization (DFO) with noisy function evaluations, exposing a fundamental and unavoidable gap between the performance of algorithms with access to gradients and those with access to only function evaluations. However, there are situations in w…
Paper develops streaming algorithms to estimate classifier accuracy on unlabeled data.
The paper ranks experts based on task performance with noisy evaluations.
We propose a Bayesian optimization algorithm for objective functions that are sums or integrals of expensive-to-evaluate functions, allowing noisy evaluations. These objective functions arise in multi-task Bayesian optimization for tuning machine learning hyperparameters, optimization via simulation, and sequential des…
ExpertNet uses noisy labels to improve deep learning robustness.
ML surrogates speed up Bayesian inverse problem solving.
Agents learning to act autonomously in real-world domains must acquire a model of the dynamics of the domain in which they operate. Learning domain dynamics can be challenging, especially where an agent only has partial access to the world state, and/or noisy external sensors. Even in standard STRIPS domains, existing …
New algorithm POO optimizes noisy, unknown-smooth functions.
Empirical mode modeling improves state-space analysis of noisy data.
Improving speech system performance in noisy environments remains a challenging task, and speech enhancement (SE) is one of the effective techniques to solve the problem. Motivated by the promising results of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in a variety of image processing tasks, we explore the potential of cond…
Randomized experiments are the gold standard for evaluating the effects of changes to real-world systems. Data in these tests may be difficult to collect and outcomes may have high variance, resulting in potentially large measurement error. Bayesian optimization is a promising technique for efficiently optimizing multi…
We present a novel view of nonlinear manifold learning using derivative-free optimization techniques. Specifically, we propose an extension of the classical multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) method, where instead of performing gradient descent, we sample and evaluate possible "moves" in a sphere of fixed radius for each …
Method learns low-dim. state vars from noisy high-dim. data.
ANTIDOTE reduces noisy labels influence during learning.
The abundance of data produced daily from large variety of sources has boosted the need of novel approaches on causal inference analysis from observational data. Observational data often contain noisy or missing entries. Moreover, causal inference studies may require unobserved high-level information which needs to be …
SelectMix improves deep learning robustness against noisy labels.
We present a new dataset for form understanding in noisy scanned documents (FUNSD) that aims at extracting and structuring the textual content of forms. The dataset comprises 199 real, fully annotated, scanned forms. The documents are noisy and vary widely in appearance, making form understanding (FoUn) a challenging t…
Discretizations of Langevin diffusions provide a powerful method for sampling and Bayesian inference. However, such discretizations require evaluation of the gradient of the potential function. In several real-world scenarios, obtaining gradient evaluations might either be computationally expensive, or simply impossibl…
RID-Noise improves robust design under noisy conditions using neural networks.
DDPMs are robust to noisy score estimates and achieve optimal convergence rates in Wasserstein-2 distance.
New algorithm finds k-centers from noisy distance estimates.
Study improves estimation of functions from noisy data using convex penalties.
New method estimates Riemannian derivatives from noisy function evaluations.
Reduces variance in noisy social outcomes to improve policy evaluation and optimization.
Framework for Bayesian inference using GP emulated MH sampler for noisy likelihoods.
New algorithm optimizes convex functions with noisy evaluations in one dimension.
Most of the existing studies on voice conversion (VC) are conducted in acoustically matched conditions between source and target signal. However, the robustness of VC methods in presence of mismatch remains unknown. In this paper, we report a comparative analysis of different VC techniques under mismatched conditions. …
PCTS optimizes noisy, delayed, multi-fidelity feedbacks in black-box optimization.
Efficiently recovers piecewise linear functions from noisy samples.
Study real-world noisy labels from human annotations for better understanding.
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are a sort of nature-inspired metaheuristics, which have wide applications in various practical optimization problems. In these problems, objective evaluations are usually inaccurate, because noise is almost inevitable in real world, and it is a crucial issue to weaken the negative effect …