Adding Seemingly Uninformative Labels Helps in Low Data RegimesShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research - International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2020, ML Research Press , 2020, p. 6775-6784Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Evidence suggests that networks trained on large datasets generalize well not solely because of the numerous training examples, but also class diversity which encourages learning of enriched features. This raises the question of whether this remains true when data is scarce – is there an advantage to learning with additional labels in low-data regimes? In this work, we consider a task that requires difficult-to-obtain expert annotations: tumor segmentation in mammography images. We show that, in low-data settings, performance can be improved by complementing the expert annotations with seemingly uninformative labels from non-expert annotators, turning the task into a multi-class problem. We reveal that these gains increase when less expert data is available, and uncover several interesting properties through further studies. We demonstrate our findings on CSAW-S, a new dataset that we introduce here, and confirm them on two public datasets.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ML Research Press , 2020. p. 6775-6784
Series
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research ; 119
National Category
Computer graphics and computer vision
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-373868Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105022421154OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-373868DiVA, id: diva2:2020651
Conference
37th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2020, Virtual, Online, NA, July 13-18, 2020
Note
Not duplicate with diva 1599878
QC 20251211
2025-12-112025-12-112025-12-11Bibliographically approved