An Embedding is Worth a Thousand Noisy Labels

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Autori principali: Di Salvo, Francesco, Doerrich, Sebastian, Rieger, Ines, Ledig, Christian
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Di Salvo, Francesco
Doerrich, Sebastian
Rieger, Ines
Ledig, Christian
author_facet Di Salvo, Francesco
Doerrich, Sebastian
Rieger, Ines
Ledig, Christian
contents The performance of deep neural networks scales with dataset size and label quality, rendering the efficient mitigation of low-quality data annotations crucial for building robust and cost-effective systems. Existing strategies to address label noise exhibit severe limitations due to computational complexity and application dependency. In this work, we propose WANN, a Weighted Adaptive Nearest Neighbor approach that builds on self-supervised feature representations obtained from foundation models. To guide the weighted voting scheme, we introduce a reliability score $η$, which measures the likelihood of a data label being correct. WANN outperforms reference methods, including a linear layer trained with robust loss functions, on diverse datasets of varying size and under various noise types and severities. WANN also exhibits superior generalization on imbalanced data compared to both Adaptive-NNs (ANN) and fixed k-NNs. Furthermore, the proposed weighting scheme enhances supervised dimensionality reduction under noisy labels. This yields a significant boost in classification performance with 10x and 100x smaller image embeddings, minimizing latency and storage requirements. Our approach, emphasizing efficiency and explainability, emerges as a simple, robust solution to overcome inherent limitations of deep neural network training. The code is available at https://github.com/francescodisalvo05/wann-noisy-labels .
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spellingShingle An Embedding is Worth a Thousand Noisy Labels
Di Salvo, Francesco
Doerrich, Sebastian
Rieger, Ines
Ledig, Christian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
The performance of deep neural networks scales with dataset size and label quality, rendering the efficient mitigation of low-quality data annotations crucial for building robust and cost-effective systems. Existing strategies to address label noise exhibit severe limitations due to computational complexity and application dependency. In this work, we propose WANN, a Weighted Adaptive Nearest Neighbor approach that builds on self-supervised feature representations obtained from foundation models. To guide the weighted voting scheme, we introduce a reliability score $η$, which measures the likelihood of a data label being correct. WANN outperforms reference methods, including a linear layer trained with robust loss functions, on diverse datasets of varying size and under various noise types and severities. WANN also exhibits superior generalization on imbalanced data compared to both Adaptive-NNs (ANN) and fixed k-NNs. Furthermore, the proposed weighting scheme enhances supervised dimensionality reduction under noisy labels. This yields a significant boost in classification performance with 10x and 100x smaller image embeddings, minimizing latency and storage requirements. Our approach, emphasizing efficiency and explainability, emerges as a simple, robust solution to overcome inherent limitations of deep neural network training. The code is available at https://github.com/francescodisalvo05/wann-noisy-labels .
title An Embedding is Worth a Thousand Noisy Labels
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14358