Learning to Detect Noisy Labels Using Model-Based Features (2022.findings-emnlp)
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Zhihao Wang, Zongyu Lin, Junjie Wen, Xianxin Chen, Peiqi Liu, Guidong Zheng, Yujun Chen, Zhilin Yang
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to reduce label noise rely on heuristics and sample losses. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that transfers the noise distribution to a clean set and trains a model to distinguish noisy labels from clean ones using model-based features. |
| Outcome: | Empirically, the proposed approach improves over strong baselines on a wide range of tasks including text classification and speech recognition. |
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