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Searching to Exploit Memorization Effect in Learning from Corrupted Labels

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Quanming Yao, Hansi Yang, Bo Han, Gang Niu, James Kwok

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Sample selection approaches are popular in robust learning from noisy labels. However, how to properly control the selection process so that deep networks can benefit from the memorization effect is a hard problem. In this paper, motivated by the success of automated machine learning (AutoML), we model this issue as a function approximation problem. Specifically, we design a domain-specific search space based on general patterns of the memorization effect and propose a novel Newton algorithm to solve the bi-level optimization problem efficiently. We further provide theoretical analysis of the algorithm, which ensures a good approximation to critical points. Experiments are performed on benchmark data sets. Results demonstrate that the proposed method is much better than the state-of-the-art noisy-label-learning approaches, and also much more efficient than existing AutoML algorithms.

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