Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on large-scale datasets have exhibited significant performance in image classification. Many large-scale datasets are collected from websites, however they tend to contain inaccurate labels that are termed as noisy labels. Training on such noisy labeled datasets causes performance degradation because DNNs easily overfit to noisy labels. To overcome this problem, we propose a joint optimization framework of learning DNN parameters and estimating true labels. Our framework can correct labels during training by alternating update of network parameters and labels. We conduct experiments on the noisy CIFAR-10 datasets and the Clothing1M dataset.The results indicate that our approach significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.

Training accurate deep neural networks (DNNs) in the presence of noisy labels is an important and challenging task. Though a number of approaches have been proposed for learning with noisy labels, many open issues remain. In this paper, we show that DNN learning with Cross Entropy (CE) exhibits overfitting to noisy labels on some classes ("easy" classes), but more surprisingly, it also suffers from significant under learning on some other classes ("hard" classes). Intuitively, CE requires an extra term to facilitate learning of hard classes, and more importantly, this term should be noise tolerant, so as to avoid overfitting to noisy labels. Inspired by the symmetric KL-divergence, we propose the approach of Symmetric cross entropy Learning (SL), boosting CE symmetrically with a noise robust counterpart Reverse Cross Entropy (RCE). Our proposed SL approach simultaneously addresses both the under learning and overfitting problem of CE in the presence of noisy labels. We provide a theoretical analysis of SL and also empirically show, on a range of benchmark and real-world datasets, that SL outperforms state-of-the-art methods. We also show that SL can be easily incorporated into existing methods in order to further enhance their performance.

不完美的标签在现实世界数据集中无处不在，严重损害了模型性能。几个最近处理嘈杂标签的有效方法有两个关键步骤：1）将样品分开通过培训丢失，2）使用半监控方法在错误标记的集合中生成样本的伪标签。然而，由于硬样品和噪声之间的类似损失分布，目前的方法总是损害信息性的硬样品。在本文中，我们提出了PGDF（先前引导的去噪框架），通过生成样本的先验知识来学习深层模型来抑制噪声的新框架，这被集成到分割样本步骤和半监督步骤中。我们的框架可以将更多信息性硬清洁样本保存到干净标记的集合中。此外，我们的框架还通过抑制当前伪标签生成方案中的噪声来促进半监控步骤期间伪标签的质量。为了进一步增强硬样品，我们在训练期间在干净的标记集合中重新重量样品。我们使用基于CiFar-10和CiFar-100的合成数据集以及现实世界数据集WebVision和服装1M进行了评估了我们的方法。结果表明了最先进的方法的大量改进。

Annotating the dataset with high-quality labels is crucial for performance of deep network, but in real world scenarios, the labels are often contaminated by noise. To address this, some methods were proposed to automatically split clean and noisy labels, and learn a semi-supervised learner in a Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL) framework. However, they leverage a handcrafted module for clean-noisy label splitting, which induces a confirmation bias in the semi-supervised learning phase and limits the performance. In this paper, we for the first time present a learnable module for clean-noisy label splitting, dubbed SplitNet, and a novel LNL framework which complementarily trains the SplitNet and main network for the LNL task. We propose to use a dynamic threshold based on a split confidence by SplitNet to better optimize semi-supervised learner. To enhance SplitNet training, we also present a risk hedging method. Our proposed method performs at a state-of-the-art level especially in high noise ratio settings on various LNL benchmarks.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success in a variety of applications across many disciplines. Yet, their superior performance comes with the expensive cost of requiring correctly annotated large-scale datasets. Moreover, due to DNNs' rich capacity, errors in training labels can hamper performance. To combat this problem, mean absolute error (MAE) has recently been proposed as a noise-robust alternative to the commonly-used categorical cross entropy (CCE) loss. However, as we show in this paper, MAE can perform poorly with DNNs and challenging datasets. Here, we present a theoretically grounded set of noise-robust loss functions that can be seen as a generalization of MAE and CCE. Proposed loss functions can be readily applied with any existing DNN architecture and algorithm, while yielding good performance in a wide range of noisy label scenarios. We report results from experiments conducted with CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and FASHION-MNIST datasets and synthetically generated noisy labels.

嘈杂的标签损坏了深网络的性能。为了稳健的学习，突出的两级管道在消除可能的不正确标签和半监督培训之间交替。然而，丢弃观察到的标签的部分可能导致信息丢失，尤其是当腐败不是完全随机的时，例如依赖类或实例依赖。此外，从代表性两级方法Dividemix的训练动态，我们确定了确认偏置的统治：伪标签未能纠正相当大量的嘈杂标签，因此累积误差。为了充分利用观察到的标签和减轻错误的校正，我们提出了强大的标签翻新（鲁棒LR）-a新的混合方法，该方法集成了伪标签和置信度估计技术来翻新嘈杂的标签。我们表明我们的方法成功减轻了标签噪声和确认偏差的损害。结果，它跨数据集和噪声类型实现最先进的结果。例如，强大的LR在真实世界嘈杂的数据集网络VIVION上以前最好的绝对高度提高了4.5％的绝对顶级精度改进。

深神经网络（DNN）的记忆效果在许多最先进的标签噪声学习方法中起着枢轴作用。为了利用这一财产，通常采用早期停止训练早期优化的伎俩。目前的方法通常通过考虑整个DNN来决定早期停止点。然而，DNN可以被认为是一系列层的组成，并且发现DNN中的后一个层对标签噪声更敏感，而其前同行是非常稳健的。因此，选择整个网络的停止点可以使不同的DNN层对抗彼此影响，从而降低最终性能。在本文中，我们建议将DNN分离为不同的部位，逐步培训它们以解决这个问题。而不是早期停止，它一次列举一个整体DNN，我们最初通过用相对大量的时期优化DNN来训练前DNN层。在培训期间，我们通过使用较少数量的时期使用较少的地层来逐步培训后者DNN层，以抵消嘈杂标签的影响。我们将所提出的方法术语作为渐进式早期停止（PES）。尽管其简单性，与早期停止相比，PES可以帮助获得更有前景和稳定的结果。此外，通过将PE与现有的嘈杂标签培训相结合，我们在图像分类基准上实现了最先进的性能。

深度学习在大量大数据的帮助下取得了众多域中的显着成功。然而，由于许多真实情景中缺乏高质量标签，数据标签的质量是一个问题。由于嘈杂的标签严重降低了深度神经网络的泛化表现，从嘈杂的标签（强大的培训）学习是在现代深度学习应用中成为一项重要任务。在本调查中，我们首先从监督的学习角度描述了与标签噪声学习的问题。接下来，我们提供62项最先进的培训方法的全面审查，所有这些培训方法都按照其方法论差异分为五个群体，其次是用于评估其优越性的六种性质的系统比较。随后，我们对噪声速率估计进行深入分析，并总结了通常使用的评估方法，包括公共噪声数据集和评估度量。最后，我们提出了几个有前途的研究方向，可以作为未来研究的指导。所有内容将在https://github.com/songhwanjun/awesome-noisy-labels提供。

Deep neural networks are known to be annotation-hungry. Numerous efforts have been devoted to reducing the annotation cost when learning with deep networks. Two prominent directions include learning with noisy labels and semi-supervised learning by exploiting unlabeled data. In this work, we propose DivideMix, a novel framework for learning with noisy labels by leveraging semi-supervised learning techniques. In particular, DivideMix models the per-sample loss distribution with a mixture model to dynamically divide the training data into a labeled set with clean samples and an unlabeled set with noisy samples, and trains the model on both the labeled and unlabeled data in a semi-supervised manner. To avoid confirmation bias, we simultaneously train two diverged networks where each network uses the dataset division from the other network. During the semi-supervised training phase, we improve the MixMatch strategy by performing label co-refinement and label co-guessing on labeled and unlabeled samples, respectively. Experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate substantial improvements over state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/LiJunnan1992/DivideMix.

Deep Learning with noisy labels is a practically challenging problem in weakly supervised learning. The stateof-the-art approaches "Decoupling" and "Co-teaching+" claim that the "disagreement" strategy is crucial for alleviating the problem of learning with noisy labels. In this paper, we start from a different perspective and propose a robust learning paradigm called JoCoR, which aims to reduce the diversity of two networks during training. Specifically, we first use two networks to make predictions on the same mini-batch data and calculate a joint loss with Co-Regularization for each training example. Then we select small-loss examples to update the parameters of both two networks simultaneously. Trained by the joint loss, these two networks would be more and more similar due to the effect of Co-Regularization. Extensive experimental results on corrupted data from benchmark datasets including MNIST, CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and Clothing1M demonstrate that JoCoR is superior to many state-of-the-art approaches for learning with noisy labels.

Despite being robust to small amounts of label noise, convolutional neural networks trained with stochastic gradient methods have been shown to easily fit random labels. When there are a mixture of correct and mislabelled targets, networks tend to fit the former before the latter. This suggests using a suitable two-component mixture model as an unsupervised generative model of sample loss values during training to allow online estimation of the probability that a sample is mislabelled. Specifically, we propose a beta mixture to estimate this probability and correct the loss by relying on the network prediction (the so-called bootstrapping loss). We further adapt mixup augmentation to drive our approach a step further. Experiments on CIFAR-10/100 and TinyImageNet demonstrate a robustness to label noise that substantially outperforms recent state-of-the-art. Source code is available at https://git.io/fjsvE.

The existence of label noise imposes significant challenges (e.g., poor generalization) on the training process of deep neural networks (DNN). As a remedy, this paper introduces a permutation layer learning approach termed PermLL to dynamically calibrate the training process of the DNN subject to instance-dependent and instance-independent label noise. The proposed method augments the architecture of a conventional DNN by an instance-dependent permutation layer. This layer is essentially a convex combination of permutation matrices that is dynamically calibrated for each sample. The primary objective of the permutation layer is to correct the loss of noisy samples mitigating the effect of label noise. We provide two variants of PermLL in this paper: one applies the permutation layer to the model's prediction, while the other applies it directly to the given noisy label. In addition, we provide a theoretical comparison between the two variants and show that previous methods can be seen as one of the variants. Finally, we validate PermLL experimentally and show that it achieves state-of-the-art performance on both real and synthetic datasets.

深度学习的最新进展依赖于大型标签的数据集来培训大容量模型。但是，以时间和成本效益的方式收集大型数据集通常会导致标签噪声。我们提出了一种从嘈杂的标签中学习的方法，该方法利用特征空间中的训练示例之间的相似性，鼓励每个示例的预测与其最近的邻居相似。与使用多个模型或不同阶段的训练算法相比，我们的方法采用了简单，附加的正规化项的形式。它可以被解释为经典的，偏置标签传播算法的归纳版本。我们在数据集上彻底评估我们的方法评估合成（CIFAR-10，CIFAR-100）和现实（迷你网络，网络vision，Clotsing1m，Mini-Imagenet-Red）噪声，并实现竞争性或最先进的精度，在所有人之间。

We approach the problem of improving robustness of deep learning algorithms in the presence of label noise. Building upon existing label correction and co-teaching methods, we propose a novel training procedure to mitigate the memorization of noisy labels, called CrossSplit, which uses a pair of neural networks trained on two disjoint parts of the dataset. CrossSplit combines two main ingredients: (i) Cross-split label correction. The idea is that, since the model trained on one part of the data cannot memorize example-label pairs from the other part, the training labels presented to each network can be smoothly adjusted by using the predictions of its peer network; (ii) Cross-split semi-supervised training. A network trained on one part of the data also uses the unlabeled inputs of the other part. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Tiny-ImageNet and mini-WebVision datasets demonstrate that our method can outperform the current state-of-the-art up to 90% noise ratio.

Modeling noise transition matrix is a kind of promising method for learning with label noise. Based on the estimated noise transition matrix and the noisy posterior probabilities, the clean posterior probabilities, which are jointly called Label Distribution (LD) in this paper, can be calculated as the supervision. To reliably estimate the noise transition matrix, some methods assume that anchor points are available during training. Nonetheless, if anchor points are invalid, the noise transition matrix might be poorly learned, resulting in poor performance. Consequently, other methods treat reliable data points, extracted from training data, as pseudo anchor points. However, from a statistical point of view, the noise transition matrix can be inferred from data with noisy labels under the clean-label-domination assumption. Therefore, we aim to estimate the noise transition matrix without (pseudo) anchor points. There is evidence showing that samples are more likely to be mislabeled as other similar class labels, which means the mislabeling probability is highly correlated with the inter-class correlation. Inspired by this observation, we propose an instance-specific Label Distribution Regularization (LDR), in which the instance-specific LD is estimated as the supervision, to prevent DCNNs from memorizing noisy labels. Specifically, we estimate the noisy posterior under the supervision of noisy labels, and approximate the batch-level noise transition matrix by estimating the inter-class correlation matrix with neither anchor points nor pseudo anchor points. Experimental results on two synthetic noisy datasets and two real-world noisy datasets demonstrate that our LDR outperforms existing methods.

使用嘈杂标签（LNL）学习旨在设计策略来通过减轻模型过度适应嘈杂标签的影响来提高模型性能和概括。 LNL的主要成功在于从大量嘈杂数据中识别尽可能多的干净样品，同时纠正错误分配的嘈杂标签。最近的进步采用了单个样品的预测标签分布来执行噪声验证和嘈杂的标签校正，很容易产生确认偏差。为了减轻此问题，我们提出了邻里集体估计，其中通过将其与其功能空间最近的邻居进行对比，重新估计了候选样本的预测性可靠性。具体而言，我们的方法分为两个步骤：1）邻域集体噪声验证，将所有训练样品分为干净或嘈杂的子集，2）邻里集体标签校正到Relabel嘈杂样品，然后使用辅助技术来帮助进一步的模型优化。 。在四个常用基准数据集（即CIFAR-10，CIFAR-100，Clothing-1M和WebVision-1.0）上进行了广泛的实验，这表明我们提出的方法非常优于最先进的方法。

深度学习在许多领域取得了许多显着的成就，但数据集中有嘈杂的标签。使用嘈杂的标签方法共同教学和共同教学的最先进的学习+通过双网络之间的相互信息面对嘈杂的标签。但是，双网络始终倾向于收敛，这会削弱双网机制以抵抗嘈杂标签。在本文中，我们以端到端的方式提出了一个名为MLC的耐噪声框架。它通过不同的正则化来调整双网络，以确保机制的有效性。此外，我们根据双网络之间的协议纠正标签分布。提出的方法可以利用嘈杂的数据来提高网络的准确性，概括和鲁棒性。我们在模拟嘈杂的数据集MNIST，CIFAR-10和现实世界嘈杂的数据集服装上测试了提出的方法。1M。实验结果表明，我们的方法优于先前的最新方法。此外，我们的方法是无网络的，因此它适用于许多任务。我们的代码可以在https://github.com/jiarunliu/mlc上找到。

使用嘈杂的标签学习是一场实际上有挑战性的弱势监督。在现有文献中，开放式噪声总是被认为是有毒的泛化，类似于封闭式噪音。在本文中，我们经验证明，开放式嘈杂标签可能是无毒的，甚至有利于对固有的嘈杂标签的鲁棒性。灵感来自观察，我们提出了一种简单而有效的正则化，通过将具有动态噪声标签（ODNL）引入培训的开放式样本。使用ODNL，神经网络的额外容量可以在很大程度上以不干扰来自清洁数据的学习模式的方式消耗。通过SGD噪声的镜头，我们表明我们的方法引起的噪音是随机方向，无偏向，这可能有助于模型收敛到最小的最小值，具有卓越的稳定性，并强制执行模型以产生保守预测-of-分配实例。具有各种类型噪声标签的基准数据集的广泛实验结果表明，所提出的方法不仅提高了许多现有的强大算法的性能，而且即使在标签噪声设置中也能实现分配异点检测任务的显着改进。

深神经网络（DNN）的记忆效应在最近的标签噪声学习方法中起关键作用。为了利用这种效果，已经广泛采用了基于模型预测的方法，该方法旨在利用DNN在学习的早期阶段以纠正嘈杂标签的效果。但是，我们观察到该模型在标签预测期间会犯错误，从而导致性能不令人满意。相比之下，在学习早期阶段产生的特征表现出更好的鲁棒性。受到这一观察的启发，在本文中，我们提出了一种基于特征嵌入的新方法，用于用标签噪声，称为标签NoissiLution（Lend）。要具体而言，我们首先根据当前的嵌入式特征计算一个相似性矩阵，以捕获训练数据的局部结构。然后，附近标记的数据（\ textIt {i.e。}，标签噪声稀释）使错误标记的数据携带的嘈杂的监督信号淹没了，其有效性是由特征嵌入的固有鲁棒性保证的。最后，带有稀释标签的培训数据进一步用于培训强大的分类器。从经验上讲，我们通过将我们的贷款与几种代表性的强大学习方法进行比较，对合成和现实世界嘈杂数据集进行了广泛的实验。结果验证了我们贷款的有效性。

作为标签噪声，最受欢迎的分布变化之一，严重降低了深度神经网络的概括性能，具有嘈杂标签的强大训练正在成为现代深度学习中的重要任务。在本文中，我们提出了我们的框架，在子分类器（ALASCA）上创造了自适应标签平滑，该框架提供了具有理论保证和可忽略的其他计算的可靠特征提取器。首先，我们得出标签平滑（LS）会产生隐式Lipschitz正则化（LR）。此外，基于这些推导，我们将自适应LS（ALS）应用于子分类器架构上，以在中间层上的自适应LR的实际应用。我们对ALASCA进行了广泛的实验，并将其与以前的几个数据集上的噪声燃烧方法相结合，并显示我们的框架始终优于相应的基线。