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Labeling time series data is an expensive task because of domain expertise and dynamic nature of the data. Hence, we often have to deal with limited labeled data settings. Data augmentation techniques have been successfully deployed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Karan Aggarwal , Jaideep Srivastava

This paper presents MixText, a semi-supervised learning method for text classification, which uses our newly designed data augmentation method called TMix. TMix creates a large amount of augmented training samples by interpolating text in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jiaao Chen , Zichao Yang , Diyi Yang

The Mixup method (Zhang et al. 2018), which uses linearly interpolated data, has emerged as an effective data augmentation tool to improve generalization performance and the robustness to adversarial examples. The motivation is to curtail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Minjin Kim , Young-geun Kim , Dongha Kim , Yongdai Kim , Myunghee Cho Paik

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT), data augmentation methods such as back-translation have proven their effectiveness in improving translation performance. In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation approach for NMT, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Chang Jin , Shigui Qiu , Nini Xiao , Hao Jia

MixUp is a recently proposed data-augmentation scheme, which linearly interpolates a random pair of training examples and correspondingly the one-hot representations of their labels. Training deep neural networks with such additional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Hongyu Guo , Yongyi Mao , Richong Zhang

Mixup is a regularization technique that artificially produces new samples using convex combinations of original training points. This simple technique has shown strong empirical performance, and has been heavily used as part of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Arslan Chaudhry , Aditya Krishna Menon , Andreas Veit , Sadeep Jayasumana , Srikumar Ramalingam , Sanjiv Kumar

In many machine learning applications, it is important for the model to provide confidence scores that accurately capture its prediction uncertainty. Although modern learning methods have achieved great success in predictive accuracy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Linjun Zhang , Zhun Deng , Kenji Kawaguchi , James Zou

As Deep Neural Networks have achieved thrilling breakthroughs in the past decade, data augmentations have garnered increasing attention as regularization techniques when massive labeled data are unavailable. Among existing augmentations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Xin Jin , Hongyu Zhu , Siyuan Li , Zedong Wang , Zicheng Liu , Juanxi Tian , Chang Yu , Huafeng Qin , Stan Z. Li

In this technique report, we aim to mitigate the overfitting problem of natural language by applying data augmentation methods. Specifically, we attempt several types of noise to perturb the input word embedding, such as Gaussian noise,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Dongxu Zhang , Zhichao Yang

Word embeddings are now a standard technique for inducing meaning representations for words. For getting good representations, it is important to take into account different senses of a word. In this paper, we propose a mixture model for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Dai Quoc Nguyen , Dat Quoc Nguyen , Ashutosh Modi , Stefan Thater , Manfred Pinkal

We study the effect of different approaches to text augmentation. To do this we use 3 datasets that include social media and formal text in the form of news articles. Our goal is to provide insights for practitioners and researchers on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Vukosi Marivate , Tshephisho Sefara

Despite their empirical success, neural networks still have difficulty capturing compositional aspects of natural language. This work proposes a simple data augmentation approach to encourage compositional behavior in neural models for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Demi Guo , Yoon Kim , Alexander M. Rush

Image classification with deep neural networks has seen a surge of technological breakthroughs with promising applications in areas such as face recognition, medical imaging, and autonomous driving. In engineering problems, however, such as…

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With the rapid development of deep learning, automatic modulation recognition (AMR), as an important task in cognitive radio, has gradually transformed from traditional feature extraction and classification to automatic classification by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Xinjie Xu , Zhuangzhi Chen , Dongwei Xu , Huaji Zhou , Shanqing Yu , Shilian Zheng , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Learning in weight spaces, where neural networks process the weights of other deep neural networks, has emerged as a promising research direction with applications in various fields, from analyzing and editing neural fields and implicit…

MixUp is a data augmentation strategy where additional samples are generated during training by combining random pairs of training samples and their labels. However, selecting random pairs is not potentially an optimal choice. In this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Seo Yeon Park , Cornelia Caragea

Determining sentence pair similarity is crucial for various NLP tasks. A common technique to address this is typically evaluated on a continuous semantic textual similarity scale from 0 to 5. However, based on a linguistic observation in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wuttikorn Ponwitayarat , Peerat Limkonchotiwat , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich , Sarana Nutanong

This paper proposes an approach to cross-language sentence selection in a low-resource setting. It uses data augmentation and negative sampling techniques on noisy parallel sentence data to directly learn a cross-lingual embedding-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Yanda Chen , Chris Kedzie , Suraj Nair , Petra Galuščáková , Rui Zhang , Douglas W. Oard , Kathleen McKeown

Data augmentation is an essential technique in natural language processing (NLP) for enriching training datasets by generating diverse samples. This process is crucial for improving the robustness and generalization capabilities of NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zaitian Wang , Jinghan Zhang , Xinhao Zhang , Kunpeng Liu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

Learning sentence embeddings in an unsupervised manner is fundamental in natural language processing. Recent common practice is to couple pre-trained language models with unsupervised contrastive learning, whose success relies on augmenting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Can Xu , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang