Combating Label Noise in Deep Learning using Abstention

Sunil Thulasidasan, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Jeff A. Bilmes, Gopinath Chennupati, Jamal Mohd-Yusof

Abstract: We introduce a novel method to combat label noise when training deep neural networks for classification. We propose a loss function that permits abstention during training thereby allowing the DNN ...