  Label noise is ubiquitous in various machine learning scenarios such as
self-labeling with model predictions and erroneous data annotation. Many
existing approaches are based on heuristics such as sample losses, which might
not be flexible enough to achieve optimal solutions. Meta learning based
methods address this issue by learning a data selection function, but can be
hard to optimize. In light of these pros and cons, we propose
Selection-Enhanced Noisy label Training (SENT) that does not rely on meta
learning while having the flexibility of being data-driven. SENT transfers the
noise distribution to a clean set and trains a model to distinguish noisy
labels from clean ones using model-based features. Empirically, on a wide range
of tasks including text classification and speech recognition, SENT improves
performance over strong baselines under the settings of self-training and label
corruption.
