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Coresets for Robust Training of Deep Neural Networks against Noisy Labels
Baharan Mirzasoleiman · Kaidi Cao · Jure Leskovec

Thu Dec 10 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PST) @ Poster Session 6 #1879
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Modern neural networks have the capacity to overfit noisy labels frequently found in real-world datasets. Although great progress has been made, existing techniques are limited in providing theoretical guarantees for the performance of the neural networks trained with noisy labels. Here we propose a novel approach with strong theoretical guarantees for robust training of deep networks trained with noisy labels. The key idea behind our method is to select weighted subsets (coresets) of clean data points that provide an approximately low-rank Jacobian matrix. We then prove that gradient descent applied to the subsets do not overfit the noisy labels. Our extensive experiments corroborate our theory and demonstrate that deep networks trained on our subsets achieve a significantly superior performance compared to state-of-the art, e.g., 6% increase in accuracy on CIFAR-10 with 80% noisy labels, and 7% increase in accuracy on mini Webvision.

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Baharan Mirzasoleiman (UCLA)
Kaidi Cao (Stanford University)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University/Pinterest)

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