Sample Selection via Contrastive Fragmentation for Noisy Label Regression

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Hauptverfasser: Kim, Chris Dongjoo, Moon, Sangwoo, Moon, Jihwan, Woo, Dongyeon, Kim, Gunhee
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author Kim, Chris Dongjoo
Moon, Sangwoo
Moon, Jihwan
Woo, Dongyeon
Kim, Gunhee
author_facet Kim, Chris Dongjoo
Moon, Sangwoo
Moon, Jihwan
Woo, Dongyeon
Kim, Gunhee
contents As with many other problems, real-world regression is plagued by the presence of noisy labels, an inevitable issue that demands our attention. Fortunately, much real-world data often exhibits an intrinsic property of continuously ordered correlations between labels and features, where data points with similar labels are also represented with closely related features. In response, we propose a novel approach named ConFrag, where we collectively model the regression data by transforming them into disjoint yet contrasting fragmentation pairs. This enables the training of more distinctive representations, enhancing the ability to select clean samples. Our ConFrag framework leverages a mixture of neighboring fragments to discern noisy labels through neighborhood agreement among expert feature extractors. We extensively perform experiments on six newly curated benchmark datasets of diverse domains, including age prediction, price prediction, and music production year estimation. We also introduce a metric called Error Residual Ratio (ERR) to better account for varying degrees of label noise. Our approach consistently outperforms fourteen state-of-the-art baselines, being robust against symmetric and random Gaussian label noise.
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Kim, Chris Dongjoo
Moon, Sangwoo
Moon, Jihwan
Woo, Dongyeon
Kim, Gunhee
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
As with many other problems, real-world regression is plagued by the presence of noisy labels, an inevitable issue that demands our attention. Fortunately, much real-world data often exhibits an intrinsic property of continuously ordered correlations between labels and features, where data points with similar labels are also represented with closely related features. In response, we propose a novel approach named ConFrag, where we collectively model the regression data by transforming them into disjoint yet contrasting fragmentation pairs. This enables the training of more distinctive representations, enhancing the ability to select clean samples. Our ConFrag framework leverages a mixture of neighboring fragments to discern noisy labels through neighborhood agreement among expert feature extractors. We extensively perform experiments on six newly curated benchmark datasets of diverse domains, including age prediction, price prediction, and music production year estimation. We also introduce a metric called Error Residual Ratio (ERR) to better account for varying degrees of label noise. Our approach consistently outperforms fourteen state-of-the-art baselines, being robust against symmetric and random Gaussian label noise.
title Sample Selection via Contrastive Fragmentation for Noisy Label Regression
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17771