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48 results for noisy humans

Paper proposes a modified uncertainty sampling method to speed up preference learning from noisy humans.

problem Learning preferences from humans with limited queries and noisy responses.
method Modified uncertainty sampling using expected output value to speed up preference learning.
result The modified method outperforms the baseline uncertainty sampling in preference learning.

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.

Paper proposes an alternative to anchor points for learning with noisy labels.

problem Learning with noisy labels is challenging due to inaccurate labels.
method Estimates transition matrix using clusterability condition and noisy labels.
result Estimation of transition matrix is more accurate and efficient than anchor points.

Bayesian topological learning improves EEG signal analysis for brain state classification.

problem Challenges in classifying and analyzing noisy, nonlinear, nonstationary EEG signals.
method Persistent homology with Bayesian framework to track topological features and incorporate prior knowledge.
result Bayesian topological learning outperforms existing methods for noisy EEG classification.

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 estimating this matrix, classifiers can escape from overfitting those noisy labels. …

2018-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a graph-based method for active learning in regression.

problem Active learning for regression is understudied and faces challenges with noisy labels and parameter uncertainty.
method Formulates active regression as a bipartite graph optimization problem.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed graph-based approach on benchmark data sets.

Recently, deep models have had considerable success in several tasks, especially with low-level representations. However, effective learning from sparse noisy samples is a major challenge in most deep models, especially in domains with structured representations. Inspired by the proven success of human guided machine l…

2019-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality manual annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. There exist many inexpensive data sources on the web, but they tend to contain inaccurate…

2018-12-13abs ↗pdf ↗

ExpertNet uses noisy labels to improve deep learning robustness.

problem Improving deep learning robustness against noisy labels.
method ExpertNet framework combining Amateur and Expert models, iteratively learning from noisy labels and images.
result ExpertNet achieves robust classification with as little as 20-50% training data, outperforming state-of-the-art models.

Embodied cognition states that semantics is encoded in the brain as firing patterns of neural circuits, which are learned according to the statistical structure of human multimodal experience. However, each human brain is idiosyncratically biased, according to its subjective experience history, making this biological s…

2019-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimal allocation of human effort to correct AI assessments in decision-making.

problem How to allocate costly human effort to correct noisy or biased AI-generated assessments.
method Decision-theoretic framework treating AI assessments as signals and human judgments as costly information. Developed estimation procedures under nonparametric and linear models.
result Our approach substantially outperforms LLM-only predictions and achieves performance comparable to full human review while using only 20-30% of the human information.

Human decision-making underlies all economic behavior. For the past four decades, human decision-making under uncertainty has continued to be explained by theoretical models based on prospect theory, a framework that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. However, theoretical models of this kind have develop…

2019-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

SANE improves exploration of noisy, multimodal functions by finding multiple optima.

problem Finding multiple optima in noisy, non-differentiable functions.
method Strategic Autonomous Non-Smooth Exploration (SANE) with a cost-driven acquisition function and human knowledge gate.
result SANE outperforms classical Bayesian optimization in discovering multiple optima.

Neural algorithms optimize arm selection with human preference feedback for complex reward functions.

problem Optimizing arm selection with noisy human preference feedback for complex, non-linear reward functions.
method Neural network to estimate reward function using preference feedback, upper confidence bound and Thompson sampling algorithms.
result Sub-linear regret guarantees for efficient arm selection in contextual dueling bandits.

RLHF uses human feedback to train AI models, posing statistical challenges.

problem Aligning AI models with human preferences using noisy, subjective feedback.
method Supervised fine-tuning, reward modeling, policy optimization, statistical ideas.
result Statistical methods for reward function learning and policy optimization.

EBRM improves robustness and generalization of language model rewards.

problem Challenges in capturing complex human preferences and generalizing to unseen data in reward models.
method Energy-Based Reward Model (EBRM) that models reward distribution explicitly, using conflict-aware data filtering, label-noise-aware contrastive training, and hybrid initialization.
result Significant improvements in robustness and generalization, up to 5.97% improvement in safety-critical alignment tasks.

The problem of finding the vertex correspondence between two noisy graphs with different number of vertices where the smaller graph is still large has many applications in social networks, neuroscience, and computer vision. We propose a solution to this problem via a graph matching matched filter: centering and padding…

2018-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

As humans we are driven by a strong desire for seeking novelty in our world. Also upon observing a novel pattern we are capable of refining our understanding of the world based on the new information---humans can discover their world. The outstanding ability of the human mind for discovery has led to many breakthroughs…

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies how to allocate human validation in AI-assisted tasks to minimize errors.

problem Heterogeneous reliability of AI-generated signals across tasks, products, and customer segments.
method Tuned prediction-powered inference, upper confidence bounds policy, Neyman square-root rule.
result The proposed policy outperforms uniform and epsilon-greedy allocation, closing most of the gap to the oracle when reliability is heterogeneous.

The study examines backward compatibility issues in ML systems, especially with noisy data.

problem Backward compatibility challenges in ML systems, especially with noisy data.
method Empirical analysis of ML systems across different architectures and datasets, focusing on data shifts and noise.
result Backward compatibility issues arise even without data shift due to optimization stochasticity and training on large-scale noisy datasets can significantly decrease compatibility.

Poultry farms are an important contributor to the human food chain. Worldwide, humankind keeps an enormous number of domesticated birds (e.g. chickens) for their eggs and their meat, providing rich sources of low-fat protein. However, around the world, there have been growing concerns about the quality of life for the …

2018-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

CausalRM models rewards from user feedback, overcoming noise and bias.

problem Aligning language models with user preferences from noisy, biased feedback.
method Causal-theoretic reward modeling framework addressing noise and bias in observational feedback.
result CausalRM learns accurate reward signals from noisy and biased observational feedback.

Deep reinforcement learning methods traditionally struggle with tasks where environment rewards are particularly sparse. One successful method of guiding exploration in these domains is to imitate trajectories provided by a human demonstrator. However, these demonstrations are typically collected under artificial condi…

2018-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

In human perception and cognition, a fundamental operation that brains perform is interpretation: constructing coherent neural states from noisy, incomplete, and intrinsically ambiguous evidence. The problem of interpretation is well matched to an early and often overlooked architecture, the attractor network---a recur…

2019-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2012-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

S4 learns new self-supervision automatically, improving accuracy with less human effort.

problem Lack of direct supervision in machine learning.
method Combines deep learning and probabilistic logic to automatically generate and verify new self-supervision.
result S4 can automatically propose accurate self-supervision, matching supervised methods with less human effort.

We consider the problem of learning the weighted edges of a graph by observing the noisy times of infection for multiple epidemic cascades on this graph. Past work has considered this problem when the cascade information, i.e., infection times, are known exactly. Though the noisy setting is well motivated by many epide…

2019-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New method estimates tensors from noisy data with missing entries.

problem Tensor estimation from noisy observations with missing entries.
method Sign series representation for tensor completion, addressing low- and high-rank signals.
result Excess risk bounds, estimation error rates, and sample complexities established.

We introduce NoisyNet, a deep reinforcement learning agent with parametric noise added to its weights, and show that the induced stochasticity of the agent's policy can be used to aid efficient exploration. The parameters of the noise are learned with gradient descent along with the remaining network weights. NoisyNet …

2017-06-30abs ↗pdf ↗