Summary of Can We Treat Noisy Labels As Accurate?, by Yuxiang Zheng et al.
Can We Treat Noisy Labels as Accurate?
by Yuxiang Zheng, Zhongyi Han, Yilong Yin, Xin Gao, Tongliang Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed EchoAlign framework tackles the issue of noisy labels in machine learning by modifying instance features to align with inaccurate labels, rather than trying to correct the labels themselves. This approach consists of two components: EchoMod, which uses controllable generative models to modify instances while preserving their intrinsic characteristics, and EchoSelect, which selects a significant portion of clean original instances based on feature similarity distributions. The integrated method achieves remarkable results in environments with instance-dependent noise, outperforming previous state-of-the-art techniques. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary EchoAlign is a new way to deal with noisy labels in machine learning. Normally, we try to fix the bad labels, but EchoAlign takes a different approach. It changes the features of the instances that have bad labels so they match those bad labels better. This helps make sure that the model learns from the good data and doesn’t get tricked by the bad data. The new method has two parts: one that makes the changes to the instances, called EchoMod, and another that picks out the best samples to use, called EchoSelect. This combination works really well and beats other methods at handling noisy labels. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
