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Though data augmentation has become a standard component of deep neural network training, the underlying mechanism behind the effectiveness of these techniques remains poorly understood. In practice, augmentation policies are often chosen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Raphael Gontijo-Lopes , Sylvia J. Smullin , Ekin D. Cubuk , Ethan Dyer

Data augmentation is essential when applying Machine Learning in small-data regimes. It generates new samples following the observed data distribution while increasing their diversity and variability to help researchers and practitioners…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Audrey Poinsot , Alessandro Leite

In recent years, one of the most popular techniques in the computer vision community has been the deep learning technique. As a data-driven technique, deep model requires enormous amounts of accurately labelled training data, which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zihan Yang , Richard O. Sinnott , James Bailey , Qiuhong Ke

Data augmentation plays a pivotal role in enhancing and diversifying training data. Nonetheless, consistently improving model performance in varied learning scenarios, especially those with inherent data biases, remains challenging. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiaoling Zhou , Wei Ye , Zhemg Lee , Rui Xie , Shikun Zhang

The monotone data augmentation (MDA) algorithm has been widely used to impute missing data for longitudinal continuous outcomes. Compared to a full data augmentation approach, the MDA scheme accelerates the mixing of the Markov chain,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Yongqiang Tang

High-dimensional measurements are often correlated which motivates their approximation by factor models. This holds also true when features are engineered via low-dimensional interactions or kernel tricks. This often results in over…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-03 Xiaonan Zhu , Bingyan Wang , Jianqing Fan

We consider the problem of data augmentation, i.e., generating artificial samples to extend a given corpus of training data. Specifically, we propose attributed-guided augmentation (AGA) which learns a mapping that allows to synthesize data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Mandar Dixit , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Nuno Vasconcelos

Underlying data structures, such as symmetries or invariances to transformations, are often exploited to improve the solution of learning tasks. However, embedding these properties in models or learning algorithms can be challenging and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ignacio Hounie , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

As an effective strategy, data augmentation (DA) alleviates data scarcity scenarios where deep learning techniques may fail. It is widely applied in computer vision then introduced to natural language processing and achieves improvements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Bohan Li , Yutai Hou , Wanxiang Che

Recent years have seen the introduction of a range of methods for post-hoc explainability of image classifier predictions. However, these post-hoc explanations may not always be faithful to classifier predictions, which poses a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Ruiwen Li , Zhibo Zhang , Jiani Li , Chiheb Trabelsi , Scott Sanner , Jongseong Jang , Yeonjeong Jeong , Dongsub Shim

Data augmentation methods are commonly integrated into the training of anomaly detection models. Previous approaches have primarily focused on replicating real-world anomalies or enhancing diversity, without considering that the standard of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiang Lin , Yaping Yan

Data augmentation is a series of techniques that generate high-quality artificial data by manipulating existing data samples. By leveraging data augmentation techniques, AI models can achieve significantly improved applicability in tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zaitian Wang , Pengfei Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Pengyang Wang , Yanjie Fu , Chang-Tien Lu , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jian Pei , Yuanchun Zhou

Data augmentation (DA) is commonly used during model training, as it significantly improves test error and model robustness. DA artificially expands the training set by applying random noise, rotations, crops, or even adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Shashank Rajput , Zhili Feng , Zachary Charles , Po-Ling Loh , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Data augmentation is a crucial regularization technique for deep neural networks, particularly in medical image classification. Mainstream data augmentation (DA) methods are usually applied at the image level. Due to the specificity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yaoyao Zhu , Xiuding Cai , Xueyao Wang , Xiaoqing Chen , Yu Yao , Zhongliang Fu

Data augmentation is commonly used to encode invariances in learning methods. However, this process is often performed in an inefficient manner, as artificial examples are created by applying a number of transformations to all points in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Michael Kuchnik , Virginia Smith

In this work, we consider the problem of imbalanced data in a regression framework when the imbalanced phenomenon concerns continuous or discrete covariates. Such a situation can lead to biases in the estimates. In this case, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-21 Samuel Stocksieker , Denys Pommeret , Arthur Charpentier

Data augmentation is an effective and universal technique for improving generalization performance of deep neural networks. It could enrich diversity of training samples that is essential in medical image segmentation tasks because 1) the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Ju Xu , Mengzhang Li , Zhanxing Zhu

Automatic data augmentation (AutoDA) plays an important role in enhancing the generalization of neural networks. However, mainstream AutoDA methods often encounter two challenges: either the search process is excessively time-consuming,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Anqi Xiao , Weichen Yu , Hongyuan Yu

Scaling laws dictate that the performance of AI models is proportional to the amount of available data. Data augmentation is a promising solution to expanding the dataset size. Traditional approaches focused on augmentation using rotation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Fazle Rahat , M Shifat Hossain , Md Rubel Ahmed , Sumit Kumar Jha , Rickard Ewetz

Automatic machine learning (\AML) is a family of techniques to automate the process of training predictive models, aiming to both improve performance and make machine learning more accessible. While many recent works have focused on aspects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Nadiia Chepurko , Ryan Marcus , Emanuel Zgraggen , Raul Castro Fernandez , Tim Kraska , David Karger