arXiv:2606. 08718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Deep Active Learning (DAL) effectively reduces human annotation costs, its efficacy is constrained by human annotation errors.
By Md Abdullah Al Forhad, Weishi Shi
arXiv:2511. 14117v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Supervised classifiers output a distribution over classes but are typically trained against a single label obtained by collapsing multiple annotators into a majority vote.
By Agamdeep Singh, Ashish Tiwari, Hosein Hasanbeig, Priyanshu Gupta
arXiv:2607. 18465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crowdsourced labeling provides valuable labeled data for domains across natural language processing, computer vision, and video.
By Ju Chen, Sijia Xu, Jun Feng, Zhiqiang Gao, Zhengyi Yang
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
Noisy node classification problem is a fundamental yet challenging task for real-world graph-related web services, where node labels are often corrupted or unreliable due to weak supervision or automa...
Crowdsourced labeling provides valuable labeled data for domains across natural language processing, computer vision, and video. Label aggregation aims to infer latent true labels from noisy and biased annotations, with the key lying in annotator reliability estimation.
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
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:2604. 13899v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Instruction-tuned LLMs can annotate thousands of instances at low cost.
By Ahmad Dawar Hakimi, Lea Hirlimann, Isabelle Augenstein, Hinrich Sch\"utze
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
arXiv:2604.13899v5 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Annotating data remains a costly bottleneck for supervised NLP. Active learning (AL) reduces the number of human labels needed by selecting o...
By Ahmad Dawar Hakimi, Lea Hirlimann, Isabelle Augenstein, Hinrich Sch\"utze
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.
By Shadman Islam, Agustinus Kristiadi, Mostafa Milani