GCI-ViTAL: Gradual Confidence Improvement with Vision Transformers for Active Learning on Label Noise

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Main Authors: Mots'oehli, Moseli, Baek, kyungim
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author Mots'oehli, Moseli
Baek, kyungim
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Baek, kyungim
contents Active learning aims to train accurate classifiers while minimizing labeling costs by strategically selecting informative samples for annotation. This study focuses on image classification tasks, comparing AL methods on CIFAR10, CIFAR100, Food101, and the Chest X-ray datasets under varying label noise rates. We investigate the impact of model architecture by comparing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformer (ViT)-based models. Additionally, we propose a novel deep active learning algorithm, GCI-ViTAL, designed to be robust to label noise. GCI-ViTAL utilizes prediction entropy and the Frobenius norm of last-layer attention vectors compared to class-centric clean set attention vectors. Our method identifies samples that are both uncertain and semantically divergent from typical images in their assigned class. This allows GCI-ViTAL to select informative data points even in the presence of label noise while flagging potentially mislabeled candidates. Label smoothing is applied to train a model that is not overly confident about potentially noisy labels. We evaluate GCI-ViTAL under varying levels of symmetric label noise and compare it to five other AL strategies. Our results demonstrate that using ViTs leads to significant performance improvements over CNNs across all AL strategies, particularly in noisy label settings. We also find that using the semantic information of images as label grounding helps in training a more robust model under label noise. Notably, we do not perform extensive hyperparameter tuning, providing an out-of-the-box comparison that addresses the common challenge practitioners face in selecting models and active learning strategies without an exhaustive literature review on training and fine-tuning vision models on real-world application data.
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spellingShingle GCI-ViTAL: Gradual Confidence Improvement with Vision Transformers for Active Learning on Label Noise
Mots'oehli, Moseli
Baek, kyungim
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Active learning aims to train accurate classifiers while minimizing labeling costs by strategically selecting informative samples for annotation. This study focuses on image classification tasks, comparing AL methods on CIFAR10, CIFAR100, Food101, and the Chest X-ray datasets under varying label noise rates. We investigate the impact of model architecture by comparing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformer (ViT)-based models. Additionally, we propose a novel deep active learning algorithm, GCI-ViTAL, designed to be robust to label noise. GCI-ViTAL utilizes prediction entropy and the Frobenius norm of last-layer attention vectors compared to class-centric clean set attention vectors. Our method identifies samples that are both uncertain and semantically divergent from typical images in their assigned class. This allows GCI-ViTAL to select informative data points even in the presence of label noise while flagging potentially mislabeled candidates. Label smoothing is applied to train a model that is not overly confident about potentially noisy labels. We evaluate GCI-ViTAL under varying levels of symmetric label noise and compare it to five other AL strategies. Our results demonstrate that using ViTs leads to significant performance improvements over CNNs across all AL strategies, particularly in noisy label settings. We also find that using the semantic information of images as label grounding helps in training a more robust model under label noise. Notably, we do not perform extensive hyperparameter tuning, providing an out-of-the-box comparison that addresses the common challenge practitioners face in selecting models and active learning strategies without an exhaustive literature review on training and fine-tuning vision models on real-world application data.
title GCI-ViTAL: Gradual Confidence Improvement with Vision Transformers for Active Learning on Label Noise
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05939