Estimating Noisy Class Posterior with Part-level Labels for Noisy Label Learning

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Main Authors: Zhao, Rui, Shi, Bin, Ruan, Jianfei, Pan, Tianze, Dong, Bo
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author Zhao, Rui
Shi, Bin
Ruan, Jianfei
Pan, Tianze
Dong, Bo
author_facet Zhao, Rui
Shi, Bin
Ruan, Jianfei
Pan, Tianze
Dong, Bo
contents In noisy label learning, estimating noisy class posteriors plays a fundamental role for developing consistent classifiers, as it forms the basis for estimating clean class posteriors and the transition matrix. Existing methods typically learn noisy class posteriors by training a classification model with noisy labels. However, when labels are incorrect, these models may be misled to overemphasize the feature parts that do not reflect the instance characteristics, resulting in significant errors in estimating noisy class posteriors. To address this issue, this paper proposes to augment the supervised information with part-level labels, encouraging the model to focus on and integrate richer information from various parts. Specifically, our method first partitions features into distinct parts by cropping instances, yielding part-level labels associated with these various parts. Subsequently, we introduce a novel single-to-multiple transition matrix to model the relationship between the noisy and part-level labels, which incorporates part-level labels into a classifier-consistent framework. Utilizing this framework with part-level labels, we can learn the noisy class posteriors more precisely by guiding the model to integrate information from various parts, ultimately improving the classification performance. Our method is theoretically sound, while experiments show that it is empirically effective in synthetic and real-world noisy benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Estimating Noisy Class Posterior with Part-level Labels for Noisy Label Learning
Zhao, Rui
Shi, Bin
Ruan, Jianfei
Pan, Tianze
Dong, Bo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
In noisy label learning, estimating noisy class posteriors plays a fundamental role for developing consistent classifiers, as it forms the basis for estimating clean class posteriors and the transition matrix. Existing methods typically learn noisy class posteriors by training a classification model with noisy labels. However, when labels are incorrect, these models may be misled to overemphasize the feature parts that do not reflect the instance characteristics, resulting in significant errors in estimating noisy class posteriors. To address this issue, this paper proposes to augment the supervised information with part-level labels, encouraging the model to focus on and integrate richer information from various parts. Specifically, our method first partitions features into distinct parts by cropping instances, yielding part-level labels associated with these various parts. Subsequently, we introduce a novel single-to-multiple transition matrix to model the relationship between the noisy and part-level labels, which incorporates part-level labels into a classifier-consistent framework. Utilizing this framework with part-level labels, we can learn the noisy class posteriors more precisely by guiding the model to integrate information from various parts, ultimately improving the classification performance. Our method is theoretically sound, while experiments show that it is empirically effective in synthetic and real-world noisy benchmarks.
title Estimating Noisy Class Posterior with Part-level Labels for Noisy Label Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05714