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Data augmentation is one of the most prevalent tools in deep learning, underpinning many recent advances, including those from classification, generative models, and representation learning. The standard approach to data augmentation…

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Contrary to most machine learning models, modern deep artificial neural networks typically include multiple components that contribute to regularization. Despite the fact that some (explicit) regularization techniques, such as weight decay…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Alex Hernández-García , Peter König

Scarcity of training data is one of the prominent problems for deep networks which require large amounts data. Data augmentation is a widely used method to increase the number of training samples and their variations. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Hilmi Kumdakcı , Cihan Öngün , Alptekin Temizel

Deterministic policies are often preferred over stochastic ones when implemented on physical systems. They can prevent erratic and harmful behaviors while being easier to implement and interpret. However, in practice, exploration is largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Mahdi Kallel , Debabrota Basu , Riad Akrour , Carlo D'Eramo

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are capable of learning robust representation with different regularization methods and activations as convolutional layers are spatially correlated. Based on this property, a large variety of regional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Devesh Walawalkar , Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Marios Savvides

Efforts to leverage deep learning models in low-resource regimes have led to numerous augmentation studies. However, the direct application of methods such as mixup and cutout to text data, is limited due to their discrete characteristics.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kyohoon Jin , Junho Lee , Juhwan Choi , Sangmin Song , Youngbin Kim

Data augmentation is a technique to improve the generalization ability of machine learning methods by increasing the size of the dataset. However, since every augmentation method is not equally effective for every dataset, you need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Daisuke Oba , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Brian Kenji Iwana

Feature transformation aims to generate new pattern-discriminative feature space from original features to improve downstream machine learning (ML) task performances. However, the discrete search space for the optimal feature explosively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Dongjie Wang , Meng Xiao , Min Wu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou , Yanjie Fu

Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art results in various vision and/or language tasks. Despite the use of large training datasets, most models are trained by iterating over single input-output pairs, discarding the remaining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rita Parada Ramos , Patrícia Pereira , Helena Moniz , Joao Paulo Carvalho , Bruno Martins

This work focuses on enhancing the generalization performance of deep reinforcement learning-based robot navigation in unseen environments. We present a novel data augmentation approach called scenario augmentation, which enables robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shanze Wang , Mingao Tan , Zhibo Yang , Xianghui Wang , Xiaoyu Shen , Hailong Huang , Wei Zhang

Data augmentation methods in combination with deep neural networks have been used extensively in computer vision on classification tasks, achieving great success; however, their use in time series classification is still at an early stage.…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-29 Elizabeth Fons , Paula Dawson , Xiao-jun Zeng , John Keane , Alexandros Iosifidis

Policy gradient methods have shown success in learning control policies for high-dimensional dynamical systems. Their biggest downside is the amount of exploration they require before yielding high-performing policies. In a lifelong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jorge A. Mendez , Boyu Wang , Eric Eaton

Data augmentation is a key practice in machine learning for improving generalization performance. However, finding the best data augmentation hyperparameters requires domain knowledge or a computationally demanding search. We address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Saypraseuth Mounsaveng , Issam Laradji , Ismail Ben Ayed , David Vazquez , Marco Pedersoli

Deep learning has become a popular tool for medical image analysis, but the limited availability of training data remains a major challenge, particularly in the medical field where data acquisition can be costly and subject to privacy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Aghiles Kebaili , Jérôme Lapuyade-Lahorgue , Su Ruan

Data preparation, also called data wrangling, is considered one of the most expensive and time-consuming steps when performing analytics or building machine learning models. Preparing data typically involves collecting and merging data from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michael Glass , Xueqing Wu , Ankita Rajaram Naik , Gaetano Rossiello , Alfio Gliozzo

Pruning is an effective method for compressing Large Language Models, but finding an optimal, non-uniform layer-wise sparsity allocation remains a key challenge. While heuristic methods are fast but yield suboptimal performance, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xin Yuan , Siqi Li , Jiateng Wei , Chengrui Zhu , Yanming Wu , Qingpeng Li , Jiajun Lv , Xiaoke Lan , Jun Chen , Yong Liu

AutoAugment has been a powerful algorithm that improves the accuracy of many vision tasks, yet it is sensitive to the operator space as well as hyper-parameters, and an improper setting may degenerate network optimization. This paper delves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Longhui Wei , An Xiao , Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian

It is difficult to collect data on a large scale in a monocular depth estimation because the task requires the simultaneous acquisition of RGB images and depths. Data augmentation is thus important to this task. However, there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yasunori Ishii , Takayoshi Yamashita

Weak supervision combines the advantages of training on real data with the ability to exploit signal properties. However, training a neural network using weak supervision often requires an excessive amount of signal data, which severely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-23 Zong-En Chen , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Feng-Yang Hsieh

We introduce Network Augmentation (NetAug), a new training method for improving the performance of tiny neural networks. Existing regularization techniques (e.g., data augmentation, dropout) have shown much success on large neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Han Cai , Chuang Gan , Ji Lin , Song Han