Hide and Seek in Noise Labels: Noise-Robust Collaborative Active Learning with LLMs-Powered Assistance
To address the challenge of accurately identifying and correcting mislabeled samples in learning with noisy labels, this paper proposes NoiseAL—a novel framework that achieves fine-grained separation of clean and noisy samples via dual lightweight model co-prediction and a dynamically adjusted confidence threshold. It further introduces an LLM-driven active labeling mechanism for semantic-level correction of noisy labels. Innovatively, we establish a hierarchical collaborative learning paradigm for noisy data and design subset-specific multi-objective optimization (employing CE, GCE, and SCE losses) tailored to varying sample quality. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world noisy benchmarks demonstrate that NoiseAL improves noise robustness by 12.7% over state-of-the-art methods and reduces human annotation cost by over 40%, thereby overcoming the coarse-grained partitioning limitation inherent in conventional label-noise learning approaches.