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Towards Continual Expansion of Data Coverage: Automatic Text-guided Edge-case Synthesis

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-04-28 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The performance of deep neural networks is strongly influenced by the quality of their training data. However, mitigating dataset bias by manually curating challenging edge cases remains a major bottleneck. To address this, we propose an automated pipeline for text-guided edge-case synthesis. Our approach employs a Large Language Model, fine-tuned via preference learning, to rephrase image captions into diverse textual prompts that steer a Text-to-Image model toward generating difficult visual scenarios. Evaluated on the FishEye8K object detection benchmark, our method achieves superior robustness, surpassing both naive augmentation and manually engineered prompts. This work establishes a scalable framework that shifts data curation from manual effort to automated, targeted synthesis, offering a promising direction for developing more reliable and continuously improving AI systems. Code is available at https://github.com/gokyeongryeol/ATES.

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@article{arxiv.2509.26158,
  title  = {Towards Continual Expansion of Data Coverage: Automatic Text-guided Edge-case Synthesis},
  author = {Kyeongryeol Go},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.26158},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted in CVPR 2026 Workshop on How Do Vision Models Work

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