Learning with Noisy Labels through Learnable Weighting and Centroid Similarity

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Hauptverfasser: Wani, Farooq Ahmad, Bucarelli, Maria Sofia, Silvestri, Fabrizio
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author Wani, Farooq Ahmad
Bucarelli, Maria Sofia
Silvestri, Fabrizio
author_facet Wani, Farooq Ahmad
Bucarelli, Maria Sofia
Silvestri, Fabrizio
contents We introduce a novel method for training machine learning models in the presence of noisy labels, which are prevalent in domains such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving and have the potential to degrade a model's generalization performance. Inspired by established literature that highlights how deep learning models are prone to overfitting to noisy samples in the later epochs of training, we propose a strategic approach. This strategy leverages the distance to class centroids in the latent space and incorporates a discounting mechanism, aiming to diminish the influence of samples that lie distant from all class centroids. By doing so, we effectively counteract the adverse effects of noisy labels. The foundational premise of our approach is the assumption that samples situated further from their respective class centroid in the initial stages of training are more likely to be associated with noise. Our methodology is grounded in robust theoretical principles and has been validated empirically through extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets. Our results show that our method consistently outperforms the existing state-of-the-art techniques, achieving significant improvements in classification accuracy in the presence of noisy labels. The code for our proposed loss function and supplementary materials is available at https://github.com/wanifarooq/NCOD
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spellingShingle Learning with Noisy Labels through Learnable Weighting and Centroid Similarity
Wani, Farooq Ahmad
Bucarelli, Maria Sofia
Silvestri, Fabrizio
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
We introduce a novel method for training machine learning models in the presence of noisy labels, which are prevalent in domains such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving and have the potential to degrade a model's generalization performance. Inspired by established literature that highlights how deep learning models are prone to overfitting to noisy samples in the later epochs of training, we propose a strategic approach. This strategy leverages the distance to class centroids in the latent space and incorporates a discounting mechanism, aiming to diminish the influence of samples that lie distant from all class centroids. By doing so, we effectively counteract the adverse effects of noisy labels. The foundational premise of our approach is the assumption that samples situated further from their respective class centroid in the initial stages of training are more likely to be associated with noise. Our methodology is grounded in robust theoretical principles and has been validated empirically through extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets. Our results show that our method consistently outperforms the existing state-of-the-art techniques, achieving significant improvements in classification accuracy in the presence of noisy labels. The code for our proposed loss function and supplementary materials is available at https://github.com/wanifarooq/NCOD
title Learning with Noisy Labels through Learnable Weighting and Centroid Similarity
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09470