arXiv Machine Learning

Hard Cases, Bad Labels: Testing Error Exposure and Error Location in Uncertainty Sampling Under Bounded Label Noise

arXiv:2608. 13601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active learning can reduce labeling cost by selecting informative examples, but the most uncertain examples may also be the hardest to label correctly.

arXiv AI
6d ago

Different Corruptions, Different Signals: Uncertainty and Loss in Federated Data Quality

The paper investigates how two signals—input‑conditional uncertainty and prediction‑label loss—detect different types of data corruption in federated learning. Experiments on ResNet‑20 with CIFAR‑10 and SVHN show that prediction‑label loss excels at spotting persistent random label flips, while expected‑entropy uncertainty better identifies additive image noise. The authors argue that effective federated data‑quality assessment must match the chosen signal to the specific corruption type rather than rely solely on uncertainty measures.

By Bradley Scott, Zeqi Luo, Edmond S. L. Ho
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