arXiv Machine Learning

Annot-Mix: Learning with Noisy Class Labels from Multiple Annotators via a Mixup Extension

arXiv:2405. 03386v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training with noisy class labels impairs neural networks' generalization performance.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

A Model for Imbalanced Label Aggregation: A Focus on Minority-Class Detection

arXiv:2607. 24622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study imbalanced crowdsourcing with a focus on class-dependent annotator accuracy, a setting that, to the best of our knowledge, remains relatively underexplored despite its importance in real-world inspection systems where the labels of greatest operational importance are also the rarest ones.

By Gabriel Singer, Samuel Gruffaz, Olivier Vo Van, Nicolas Vayatis, Argyris Kalogeratos
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

PaSta: Noisy Node Classification with Partial Label Learning

PaSta introduces a Partial label-based Self‑training framework for noisy node classification on graphs. The method trains multiple annotators to generate high‑quality partial labels, then uses a partial‑label classification model with two loss functions to learn both labels and representations. A closed‑loop self‑training strategy further refines annotators, yielding an average 1.1% improvement over state‑of‑the‑art methods across five datasets.

By Yujing Liu, Yixin Liu, Yu Zheng, Yue Tan, Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Shirui Pan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

A Model for Imbalanced Label Aggregation: A Focus on Minority-Class Detection

We study imbalanced crowdsourcing with a focus on class-dependent annotator accuracy, a setting that, to the best of our knowledge, remains relatively underexplored despite its importance in real-world inspection systems where the labels of greatest operational importance are also the rarest ones. In this setting, annotators may be reliable on both classes, unreliable on both classes, majority-class specialists, or minority-class specialists.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

FedCC: Towards Addressing Label Distribution Skews in Distillation-Based Federated Learning

FedCC is a new algorithm for distillation-based federated learning that tackles label distribution skew by allowing clients to mark ambiguous samples as 'unknown' instead of forcing a potentially wrong classification. By adding this extra class and calibrating pseudo-labels on a public dataset, FedCC balances confidence across majority and minority classes. Experiments show that FedCC outperforms existing methods, achieving 67.3% accuracy even when each client has data from only one of ten classes, whereas baselines drop to near-random performance.

By Wenxuan Ye, Onur Ayan, Xueli An, Georg Carle