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Towards robust learning with different label noise distributions

Ortego, Diego orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-1011-3610, Arazo, Eric, Albert, Paul, O'Connor, Noel E. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-4033-9135 and McGuinness, Kevin orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1336-6477 (2021) Towards robust learning with different label noise distributions. In: International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2020, 10-15 Jan 2021, Milan, Italy (Online).

Abstract
Noisy labels are an unavoidable consequence of labeling processes and detecting them is an important step towards preventing performance degradations in Convolutional Neural Networks. Discarding noisy labels avoids a harmful memorization, while the associated image content can still be exploited in a semi-supervised learning (SSL) setup. Clean samples are usually identified using the small loss trick, i.e. they exhibit a low loss. However, we show that different noise distributions make the application of this trick less straightforward and propose to continuously relabel all images to reveal a discriminative loss against multiple distributions. SSL is then applied twice, once to improve the clean-noisy detection and again for training the final model. We design an experimental setup based on ImageNet32/64 for better understanding the consequences of representation learning with differing label noise distributions and find that non-uniform out-of-distribution noise better resembles real-world noise and that in most cases intermediate features are not affected by label noise corruption. Experiments in CIFAR-10/100, ImageNet32/64 and WebVision (real-world noise) demonstrate that the proposed label noise Distribution Robust Pseudo-Labeling (DRPL) approach gives substantial improvements over recent state-of-the-art. Code is available at https://git.io/JJ0PV.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial intelligence
Computer Science > Image processing
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering
Research Institutes and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2020. . ICPR.
Publisher:ICPR
Official URL:https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/index.php/confe...
Copyright Information:© 2020 The Authors
ID Code:25086
Deposited On:11 Jan 2021 11:54 by Diego Ortego Hernández . Last Modified 04 Nov 2021 15:10
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