Paper explains why small-loss criterion works for learning from noisy labels.
problem Learning from noisy labels in deep learning with limited labeled data.
method Theoretical analysis and reformulation of the small-loss criterion.
result Theoretical explanation and reformulation of the small-loss criterion.
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.
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 …
JoCoR improves deep learning with noisy labels by reducing network diversity.
problem Learning with noisy labels in deep learning.
method JoCoR uses two networks to make predictions, calculates a joint loss with Co-Regularization, and updates both networks simultaneously.
result JoCoR outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in learning with noisy labels.
Training accurate deep neural networks (DNNs) in the presence of noisy labels is an important and challenging task. Though a number of approaches have been proposed for learning with noisy labels, many open issues remain. In this paper, we show that DNN learning with Cross Entropy (CE) exhibits overfitting to noisy lab…
Survey on deep learning robust training methods for noisy labels.
problem Dealing with noisy labels in deep learning models.
method Comprehensive review of 62 robust training methods categorized by their approach.
result Analysis of noise rate estimation and evaluation methodologies.
Bayes classifier cannot be learned from noisy labels without knowing noise distribution.
problem Learning a Bayes classifier from noisy labels when the noise distribution is unknown.
method Demonstrates the identifiability issues and proposes a simple algorithm for learning the Bayes decision rule.
result The Bayes decision rule is generally unidentified and cannot be learned without knowing the noise distribution.
Simple k-NN filtering improves model accuracy on noisy labels.
problem Training models with noisy labels reduces performance and is hard to identify.
method A simple k-nearest neighbor-based filtering approach on the logit layer. result Improves model accuracy compared to recent methods.
ANTIDOTE reduces noisy labels influence during learning.
problem Learning with noisy labels.
method Information-divergence neighborhood relaxation and adversarial training.
result ANTIDOTE outperforms standard cross-entropy loss in noisy label settings.
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.
DynaCor detects noisy labels by learning from corrupted training signals.
problem Label noise in real-world datasets hinders model generalization.
method DynaCor introduces label corruption to indirectly simulate noisy labels and learns to distinguish clean from noisy instances.
result DynaCor outperforms state-of-the-art competitors in noisy label detection.
Paper tackles noisy labels in deep learning networks.
problem Learning with noisy labels in deep neural networks.
method Sparse regularization strategy to approximate one-hot constraint.
result Improves performance of commonly-used loss functions in noisy labels and class imbalance.
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…
New loss function helps models avoid noisy labels, improving robustness.
problem Designing robust models for datasets with noisy labels.
method Introduced a gambler's loss function that encourages models to abstain from learning noisy data points.
result Training with gambler's loss leads to improved robustness and generalization across various tasks.
A new method combines experts' opinions to train regression models with noisy labels.
problem Training regression models with noisy labels from multiple experts.
method Estimate each labeler's expertise and combine opinions using learned weights.
result Empirically outperforms existing techniques on simulated and real data.
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.
Method counters noisy labels by discounting distant samples.
problem Training models with noisy labels in medical and autonomous domains.
method Discounting distant samples from class centroids in latent space.
result Significant improvements in classification accuracy.
This paper examines error bounds for deep learning classifiers with noisy labels.
problem Understanding the performance of classifiers trained on noisy data.
method Derives error bounds for excess risk, decomposing it into statistical and approximation errors. Uses independent block construction for statistical dependencies and vector-valued setting for approximation error.
result Established theoretical results for error bounds in deep learning with noisy labels, mitigating the impact of high-dimensional input spaces.
Paper tackles noisy labels for non-decomposable performance measures.
problem Learning from noisy labels for non-decomposable performance measures.
method Designs algorithms for multiclass non-decomposable performance measures using Frank-Wolfe and Bisection methods, corrected for class-conditional noise.
result Noise-corrected algorithms are Bayes consistent, converging to optimal performance.
Increasing variance of losses improves learning with noisy labels.
problem Learning with noisy labels and the need to penalize variance of losses.
method Designing regularizers based on the label noise transition matrix to increase variance of losses.
result Increasing variance of losses significantly improves generalization ability.
This work explores how neural network architecture affects robustness to noisy labels.
problem The impact of neural network architecture on robustness to noisy labels.
method Formal framework connecting robustness to architecture alignments, measured by predictive power in representations.
result Network robustness to noisy labels improves when its architecture is more aligned with the target function.
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.
New method improves deep learning models in noisy label classification.
problem Improving deep learning models in noisy label classification.
method Analyzes loss and uncertainty changes during training, designs a new robust training method.
result Significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in various deep learning models.
Recently deep neural networks have shown their capacity to memorize training data, even with noisy labels, which hurts generalization performance. To mitigate this issue, we provide a simple but effective baseline method that is robust to noisy labels, even with severe noise. Our objective involves a variance regulariz…
Deep learning with noisy labels is practically challenging, as the capacity of deep models is so high that they can totally memorize these noisy labels sooner or later during training. Nonetheless, recent studies on the memorization effects of deep neural networks show that they would first memorize training data of cl…
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…
This paper improves loss functions for deep learning with noisy labels.
problem Training deep neural networks with noisy labels.
method The paper introduces a normalization technique to make any loss function robust to noisy labels and proposes a framework called Active Passive Loss (APL) to combine robust loss functions.
result The proposed APL framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, especially under high noise rates.
TCR improves DNN robustness to noisy labels with minimal overhead.
problem Training on noisy labeled datasets degrades DNN generalization.
method TCR combines original labels and previous epoch predictions for regularization.
result TCR consistently enhances DNN robustness to label noise.
Proposes coreset method for robust training of neural networks with noisy labels.
problem Overfitting of neural networks trained with noisy labels.
method Selects weighted subsets (coresets) of clean data points to approximate low-rank Jacobian matrix.
result Gradient descent applied to coreset subsets does not overfit noisy labels.
A meta-learning method learns adaptive robust loss functions for noisy labels.
problem Handling robust learning with noisy labels and optimizing hyperparameters.
method Adaptive learning of robust loss hyperparameters through mutual improvement with network parameters.
result Generalized and effective robust loss functions with good generalization capability.
CbMLC improves multi-label classification with noisy labels.
problem Evaluating multi-label classifiers with noisy labels.
method Context-Based Multi-Label Classifier (CbMLC) that handles noisy labels without additional supervision.
result CbMLC yields substantial improvements over previous methods in noisy label settings.
Datasets with significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels present challenges for training accurate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We propose a new perspective for understanding DNN generalization for such datasets, by investigating the dimensionality of the deep representation subspace of training samples. …
Leveraging weak or noisy supervision for building effective machine learning models has long been an important research problem. Its importance has further increased recently due to the growing need for large-scale datasets to train deep learning models. Weak or noisy supervision could originate from multiple sources i…
CrossFilter tackles noisy labels in audio tagging.
problem Noisy labels in large audio datasets.
method CrossFilter framework using multiple representations and multi-task learning.
result Improves audio tagging performance on FSDKaggle2018 and FSDKaggle2019 datasets.
INN method refines clean labeled data from noisy labels.
problem Handling noisy labels in deep neural networks.
method INN method based on memorization effect at neighbor regions.
result INN method resolves memorization effect shortcomings.
Adaptive sampler improves recommendation for implicit feedback data.
problem Challenges in predicting user preferences from implicit feedback data.
method Noisy-label robust learning for adaptive sampler design.
result Significant improvement in recommendation quality on real-world datasets.
A new method selects clean samples to train DNNs with noisy labels.
problem Training deep neural networks with noisy labeled data.
method Adaptive k-set selection to choose clean samples at each epoch.
result The method guarantees performance with a theoretical bound on regret.
Class2Simi reduces noise in noisy label learning by transforming noisy class labels into noisy similarity labels.
problem Learning with noisy labels in supervised and unsupervised settings.
method Transforming noisy class labels into noisy similarity labels, training DNNs from noisy data pairs.
result The noise rate reduction is theoretically guaranteed, making it easier to handle noisy similarity labels.
Resetting from checkpoints improves DNN training with noisy labels.
problem Latent gradient bias induced by noisy labels causes overfitting.
method Stochastic resetting applied to SGD to mitigate latent gradient bias.
result Resetting significantly improves DNN generalization performance.
The paper analyzes how deep neural networks handle noisy labels and finds disparate impacts.
problem Disparate impacts of noisy labels on instances with different representation frequencies.
method Quantifying harms, analyzing solutions, and comparing their impacts on different frequency instances.
result Existing solutions lead to disparate treatments, benefiting higher-frequency instances more.
The paper tackles noisy labels in high-dimensional data, showing low-dimensional intuitions fail and proposing an optimized method.
problem Noisy labels in high-dimensional data classification.
method Linear classifier with a label noisiness aware loss function, using random matrix theory and Gaussian mixture data model.
result The performance of the linear classifier in high-dimension converges to a limit involving scalar statistics of the data, and the optimal classifier in low-dimension fails.
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 (Semi-SL) as a special case of NL. For both types of noise, we argue that the gene…
Given data with noisy labels, over-parameterized deep networks can gradually memorize the data, and fit everything in the end. Although equipped with corrections for noisy labels, many learning methods in this area still suffer overfitting due to undesired memorization. In this paper, to relieve this issue, we propose …
SelectMix improves deep learning robustness against noisy labels.
problem Deep neural networks memorize noisy labels, degrading performance.
method Confidence-guided targeted sample mixing with soft labels.
result SelectMix consistently outperforms baseline methods on noisy label datasets.
Paper tackles noisy labels by compressing feature representations.
problem Learning with noisy labels leads to overfitting and poor generalization.
method Introduces compression inductive bias using Dropout and Nested Dropout.
result Compression helps in combating label noise and improving performance.
MARVEL curbs memorization of noisy labels in deep nets.
problem Noisy labels degrade deep net performance.
method MARVEL tracks classification margins to identify and abandon noisy instances.
result MARVEL outperforms baselines on noisy datasets.
Framework prevents deep learning models from memorizing noisy labels.
problem Deep learning models memorize noisy labels during early learning phase.
method Develops a technique that exploits early learning phase via regularization.
result Framework achieves robustness to noisy annotations on benchmarks and real-world datasets.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful tools in computer vision tasks. However, in many realistic scenarios label noise is prevalent in the training images, and overfitting to these noisy labels can significantly harm the generalization performance of DNNs. We propose a novel technique to identify data with noisy lab…