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Re:Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image rec... by s1t5 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:00PM (#22891877)
In one of his fastai videos Jeremy Howard makes the point that wrong labels can act as regularization and you shouldn't worry too much about them. I'm a bit skeptical as to how far you can push this but you certainly don't need perfect labelling.
Re:Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image rec... by groar on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:31PM (#22892128)
That is true up to a certain point (for instance, in my experience, having bounding boxes that are not pixel-perfect acts as a regularizer), but there is also a good chance that you are mislabelling edge cases, situations that happen rarely, and that definitely hurts the performance of the neural network to make a correct prediction on these difficult / uncommon scenarios.
Re:Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image rec... by kingvash on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:15PM (#22893056)
We did some interesting experiments with Go where we inverted the label of who won and measured what impact that had on the final model. This is a binary label so it's probably more impactful (it's the only signal we are measuring)

From memory it had only a small impact (2% strength) with ~7% of results flipped, at 4% it was hard to measure the impact (<1%)

Re:Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image rec... by strbean on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:30PM (#22893769)
Also, this is applies to mislabeled data in your training set, right? Not a good thing if it is in your test set.