Coupled-View Deep Classifier Learning from Multiple Noisy Annotators

Authors

  • Shikun Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Shiming Ge Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yingying Hua Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Chunhui Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Hao Wen CloudWalk Technology Co., Ltd
  • Tengfei Liu Ant Financial Services Group
  • Weiqiang Wang Ant Financial Services Group

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i04.5898

Abstract

Typically, learning a deep classifier from massive cleanly annotated instances is effective but impractical in many real-world scenarios. An alternative is collecting and aggregating multiple noisy annotations for each instance to train the classifier. Inspired by that, this paper proposes to learn deep classifier from multiple noisy annotators via a coupled-view learning approach, where the learning view from data is represented by deep neural networks for data classification and the learning view from labels is described by a Naive Bayes classifier for label aggregation. Such coupled-view learning is converted to a supervised learning problem under the mutual supervision of the aggregated and predicted labels, and can be solved via alternate optimization to update labels and refine the classifiers. To alleviate the propagation of incorrect labels, small-loss metric is proposed to select reliable instances in both views. A co-teaching strategy with class-weighted loss is further leveraged in the deep classifier learning, which uses two networks with different learning abilities to teach each other, and the diverse errors introduced by noisy labels can be filtered out by peer networks. By these strategies, our approach can finally learn a robust data classifier which less overfits to label noise. Experimental results on synthetic and real data demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed approach.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Li, S., Ge, S., Hua, Y., Zhang, C., Wen, H., Liu, T., & Wang, W. (2020). Coupled-View Deep Classifier Learning from Multiple Noisy Annotators. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(04), 4667-4674. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i04.5898

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AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning