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Poster
Masking: A New Perspective of Noisy Supervision
Bo Han · Jiangchao Yao · Gang Niu · Mingyuan Zhou · Ivor Tsang · Ya Zhang · Masashi Sugiyama

Tue Dec 04 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Room 517 AB #163
in Tue Poster Session B »

It is important to learn various types of classifiers given training data with noisy labels. Noisy labels, in the most popular noise model hitherto, are corrupted from ground-truth labels by an unknown noise transition matrix. Thus, by estimating this matrix, classifiers can escape from overfitting those noisy labels. However, such estimation is practically difficult, due to either the indirect nature of two-step approaches, or not big enough data to afford end-to-end approaches. In this paper, we propose a human-assisted approach called ''Masking'' that conveys human cognition of invalid class transitions and naturally speculates the structure of the noise transition matrix. To this end, we derive a structure-aware probabilistic model incorporating a structure prior, and solve the challenges from structure extraction and structure alignment. Thanks to Masking, we only estimate unmasked noise transition probabilities and the burden of estimation is tremendously reduced. We conduct extensive experiments on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 with three noise structures as well as the industrial-level Clothing1M with agnostic noise structure, and the results show that Masking can improve the robustness of classifiers significantly.

Keywords: Classification · Semi-Supervised Learning

Author Information

Bo Han (RIKEN & UTS)
Jiangchao Yao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Gang Niu (RIKEN)
Mingyuan Zhou (University of Texas at Austin)
Ivor Tsang (University of Technology, Sydney)
Ya Zhang (Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center, Shang hai Jiao Tong University)
Masashi Sugiyama (RIKEN / University of Tokyo)

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