Cleanlab
What it is: ML-powered data cleaning library. Automatically finds label errors, outliers, and near-duplicates in your training data using machine learning confidence scores.
What It Does Best
Finding mislabeled data. Uses cross-validation and model uncertainty to identify training examples with wrong labels. Works with any ML framework.
Data-centric AI. Improve model performance by fixing data rather than tweaking hyperparameters. Often gives bigger gains than model optimization.
Works with existing models. Integrates with scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face. No need to change your workflow.
Pricing
Open source: Free, AGPL license
Cleanlab Studio: Paid hosted platform with GUI
When to Use It
โ Training ML models with human-labeled data
โ Model underperforming and you suspect bad labels
โ Working with crowdsourced or noisy datasets
โ Computer vision or NLP classification tasks
When NOT to Use It
โ No labeled data (unsupervised learning)
โ Very small datasets (need enough data for cross-validation)
โ Time-series or regression problems (optimized for classification)
Bottom line: Game-changer for ML practitioners. Fixing data quality beats tuning hyperparameters. If you're training classifiers, run cleanlab to find and fix mislabeled examples.