arXiv Machine Learning

Benchmarking Instance-Dependent Label Noise with Controlled Corruptions

arXiv:2606. 14965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic instance-dependent label noise (IDN) benchmarks are widely used to evaluate noisy-label learning methods, yet existing approaches typically generate noise through imperfect annotators or classifier raters, leaving the source of ambiguity implicit.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 24

Benchmarking noisy label detection methods

arXiv:2510.16211v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Label noise is a common problem in real-world datasets, affecting both model training and validation. Clean data are essential for achieving strong...

By Henrique Pickler, Jorge K. S. Kamassury, Danilo Silva
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Forget or Fine-tune? A Comparative Study of Machine Unlearning Strategies for Noisy Label Correction

The paper compares five machine unlearning (MU) methods—NegGrad, Fine‑Tuning (FT), Random Labeling (RL), SalUn, and MUNBa—on noisy‑label correction across CIFAR‑10, CIFAR‑100, and Food‑101N. Results show that the best MU strategy depends on the noise type: FT works well for most closed‑set noise, RL and SalUn are robust and nearly match retraining accuracy under instance‑dependent noise, while MUNBa excels only under extreme symmetric noise. In open‑set noise, retraining on the cleaned data actually hurts performance, indicating that approximating retraining is not suitable in that regime, yet all MU methods still achieve near‑retraining accuracy on Food‑101N with much lower runtime.

By Jo\~ao L. P. Santana, Filipe R. Cordeiro
arXiv AI
Jun 2

STABLEVAL: Disagreement-Aware and Stable Evaluation of AI Systems

arXiv:2605. 02122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human evaluation remains the primary standard for assessing modern AI systems, yet annotator disagreement, bias, and variability make system rankings fragile under standard majority vote aggregation.

By Akash Bonagiri, Gerard Janno Anderias, Saee Patil, Angelina Lai, Devang Borkar, Gezheng Kang, Ishant Gandhi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun