Cleanlab
Detects label errors, outliers, and duplicates in machine learning datasets using confident learning.
About
Built on the confident learning research published in JAIR in 2021, Cleanlab estimates which labels in a dataset are wrong by comparing them against a model's out-of-sample predicted probabilities, with provable guarantees on label noise estimation. The library's Datalab interface audits any dataset for label errors, outliers, near duplicates, and drift, and works with text, image, audio, and tabular data across classification, multi-label, token classification, regression, segmentation, and object detection tasks. It is deliberately model agnostic: predictions can come from PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, or any framework that outputs probabilities. Installation is a plain pip, uv, or conda install on Python 3.10 or newer, everything runs locally on CPU, and the code is Apache 2.0 licensed, while the company behind it sells hosted products for automated data curation. With 11,600 GitHub stars and wide citation in data-centric AI work, it is the standard first pass for teams who suspect their training set or benchmark contains mislabeled examples.
Should you use Cleanlab?
Pick it when
Use it when you have a labeled classification, tagging, or detection dataset plus a model that outputs probabilities, and you suspect some labels are wrong. It runs on CPU and slots in as an audit step before retraining or publishing a benchmark.
Look elsewhere when
Its label checks need out-of-sample predicted probabilities, so you must train or cross-validate a model first; for filtering web-scale unlabeled corpora use DataTrove or Data-Juicer. It has no labeling UI, so fixes happen in a tool like Label Studio.
Alternatives to Cleanlab
- Label Studio
Gives humans a UI to relabel and review items, but has no built-in statistical ranking of which of thousands of existing labels are likely wrong.
- FiftyOne
Visual app for exploring image and video datasets, embeddings, and annotation mistakes, but vision only; Cleanlab also audits text, tabular, and audio labels without a UI.
- Snorkel
Creates labels from heuristic labeling functions when you have few labels; Cleanlab audits labels you already have. Snorkel's repo is in maintenance mode.
- Data-Juicer
Filters and dedupes unlabeled multimodal corpora at Ray scale, a corpus-cleaning job rather than checking each label against a model's predictions.
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Details
- Category
- Datasets & Training
- Price
- Freemium
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/5)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Added
- Jul 29, 2026