noisy label learning
Noisy Label Learning with Instance-Dependent Outliers: Identifiability via Crowd Wisdom
The generation of label noise is often modeled as a process involving a probability transition matrix (also interpreted as the annotator confusion matrix) imposed onto the label distribution. Under this model, learning the ground-truth classifier''---i.e., the classifier that can be learned if no noise was present---and the confusion matrix boils down to a model identification problem. Prior works along this line demonstrated appealing empirical performance, yet identifiability of the model was mostly established by assuming an instance-invariant confusion matrix. Having an (occasionally) instance-dependent confusion matrix across data samples is apparently more realistic, but inevitably introduces outliers to the model. Our interest lies in confusion matrix-based noisy label learning with such outliers taken into consideration.