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most citedTo Smooth or Not? When Label Smoothing Meets Noisy Labels

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cs.LG2026

CARPRT: Class-Aware Zero-Shot Prompt Reweighting for Black-Box Vision-Language Models

Ruijiang Dong, Zesheng Ye, Jianzhong Qi +4

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) enable zero-shot image classification by computing the similarity score between an image and textual descriptions, typically formed by ins…

cs.LG2026

Embracing Biased Transition Matrices for Complementary-Label Learning with Many Classes

Tan-Ha Mai, Chao-Kai Chiang, Han-Hwa Shih +3

Complementary-label learning (CLL) is a weakly supervised paradigm where instances are labeled with classes they do not belong to. Despite a decade of research, CLL methods remain…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

Are Multimodal Large Language Models Good Annotators for Image Tagging?

Ming-Kun Xie, Jia-Hao Xiao, Zhiqiang Kou +3

Image tagging, a fundamental vision task, traditionally relies on human-annotated datasets to train multi-label classifiers, which incurs significant labor and costs. While Multimo…

cs.LG2025

Understanding Negative Learning in Large Language Model Fine-tuning

Yue Wang, Qizhou Wang, Zizhuo Zhang +3

Negative learning has never been more important than it is today, particularly in large language model (LLM) fine-tuning, where it underpins machine unlearning, preference- and rew…

cs.LG2025

From Coefficients to Directions: Rethinking Model Merging with Directional Alignment

Zhikang Chen, Sen Cui, Deheng Ye +5

Model merging has emerged as a practical paradigm for integrating multiple independently trained models into a single model without joint retraining. Previous studies have demonstr…

cs.CL2025

Rethinking Toxicity Evaluation in Large Language Models: A Multi-Label Perspective

Zhiqiang Kou, Junyang Chen, Xin-Qiang Cai +8

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results across a range of natural language processing tasks, but their potential to generate harmful content has raised seriou…

cs.LG2025

When and Why Does Multi-Agent Debate Fail and Does It Really Underperform?

Yongqiang Chen, Gang Niu, James Cheng +2

Multi-agent debate (MAD) was proposed as a promising approach for ensembling the wisdom of multiple large language models (LLMs) to improve reasoning and provide effective supervis…

cs.LG2025

Towards Understanding Valuable Preference Data for Large Language Model Alignment

Zizhuo Zhang, Qizhou Wang, Shanshan Ye +4

Large language model (LLM) alignment is typically achieved through learning from human preference comparisons, making the quality of preference data critical to its success. Existi…

cs.LG2025

Rethinking Consistent Multi-Label Classification Under Inexact Supervision

Wei Wang, Tianhao Ma, Ming-Kun Xie +2

Partial multi-label learning and complementary multi-label learning are two popular weakly supervised multi-label classification paradigms that aim to alleviate the high annotation…

cs.CV2025

What Makes "Good" Distractors for Object Hallucination Evaluation in Large Vision-Language Models?

Ming-Kun Xie, Jia-Hao Xiao, Gang Niu +4

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), empowered by the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), have achieved impressive performance across domains. Despite the great advances in L…

cs.CV2025

Robust Multi-View Learning via Representation Fusion of Sample-Level Attention and Alignment of Simulated Perturbation

Jie Xu, Na Zhao, Gang Niu +2

Recently, multi-view learning (MVL) has garnered significant attention due to its ability to fuse discriminative information from multiple views. However, real-world multi-view dat…

cs.LG2025

Accurate Forgetting for Heterogeneous Federated Continual Learning

Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi, Sen Cui, Jingfeng Zhang +6

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in federated learning (FL). However, the contexts in which clients engage in sequential learning remain under-explored. Bridging F…

cs.LG2025

Label Distribution Learning with Biased Annotations by Learning Multi-Label Representation

Zhiqiang Kou, Si Qin, Hailin Wang +6

Multi-label learning (MLL) has gained attention for its ability to represent real-world data. Label Distribution Learning (LDL), an extension of MLL to learning from label distribu…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

In-context Demonstration Matters: On Prompt Optimization for Pseudo-Supervision Refinement

Zhen-Yu Zhang, Jiandong Zhang, Huaxiu Yao +2

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success across diverse tasks, and fine-tuning is sometimes needed to further enhance generation quality. Most existing methods rely…

cs.LG2024

Dual-Decoupling Learning and Metric-Adaptive Thresholding for Semi-Supervised Multi-Label Learning

Jia-Hao Xiao, Ming-Kun Xie, Heng-Bo Fan +3

Semi-supervised multi-label learning (SSMLL) is a powerful framework for leveraging unlabeled data to reduce the expensive cost of collecting precise multi-label annotations. Unlik…

cs.LG2024

Towards Effective Evaluations and Comparisons for LLM Unlearning Methods

Qizhou Wang, Bo Han, Puning Yang +3

The imperative to eliminate undesirable data memorization underscores the significance of machine unlearning for large language models (LLMs). Recent research has introduced a seri…

cs.LG2021★ 16 cited

To Smooth or Not? When Label Smoothing Meets Noisy Labels

Jiaheng Wei, Hangyu Liu, Tongliang Liu +3

Label smoothing (LS) is an arising learning paradigm that uses the positively weighted average of both the hard training labels and uniformly distributed soft labels. It was shown…

cs.LG2021★ 16 cited

Meta Discovery: Learning to Discover Novel Classes given Very Limited Data

Haoang Chi, Feng Liu, Bo Han +6

In novel class discovery (NCD), we are given labeled data from seen classes and unlabeled data from unseen classes, and we train clustering models for the unseen classes. However,…