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On a typical supervised ML project, why is data labeling treated as a first-class engineering problem?

Because labels are usually the most expensive, slowest part, and a model can only be as good as the labels it learned from, The model is often the cheap part. Getting correct labels is expensive and slow, and wrong labels teach the model the wrong thing, so a model can never beat the quality of its answer key.

Your crowdsourced sentiment labels have a Fleiss' kappa of 0.3 (weak agreement). What is the right first move?

Stop and fix the annotation guidelines, since low agreement usually means the label definitions are unclear, Low inter-annotator agreement is almost always a guidelines problem, not a people problem. Annotators do not share the same definition, so the fix is a clearer rulebook with worked examples for the edge cases before you scale up.

What is the core idea of weak supervision (as used in Snorkel)?

Write several noisy labeling functions and let a model learn their accuracies and combine them into probabilistic labels for the whole dataset, Weak supervision replaces hand-labeling every row with a handful of noisy rules that may be wrong or abstain. A label model learns each function's accuracy without ground truth and combines them into soft labels, letting you label millions of rows in minutes.

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