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Text Augmentation is an important task for low-resource languages. It helps deal with the problem of data scarcity. A data augmentation strategy is used to deal with the problem of data scarcity. Through the years, much work has been done…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Onkar Litake , Niraj Yagnik , Shreyas Labhsetwar

Nowadays, data augmentation through synthetic data has been widely used in the field of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) to alleviate the problem of data scarcity. However, these synthetic data are mainly used in the pre-training phase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yixuan Wang , Baoxin Wang , Yijun Liu , Qingfu Zhu , Dayong Wu , Wanxiang Che

Test-time augmentation -- the aggregation of predictions across transformed examples of test inputs -- is an established technique to improve the performance of image classification models. Importantly, TTA can be used to improve model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Helen Lu , Divya Shanmugam , Harini Suresh , John Guttag

With the capabilities of understanding and executing natural language instructions, Large language models (LLMs) can potentially act as a powerful tool for textual data augmentation. However, the quality of augmented data depends heavily on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yichuan Li , Kaize Ding , Jianling Wang , Kyumin Lee

In the context of neural machine translation, data augmentation (DA) techniques may be used for generating additional training samples when the available parallel data are scarce. Many DA approaches aim at expanding the support of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena , Miquel Esplà-Gomis , Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz , Felipe Sánchez-Martínez

Data analysis and machine learning are of preeminent importance in the legal domain, especially in tasks like clustering and text classification. In this study, we harnessed the power of natural language processing tools to enhance datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Lucas José Gonçalves Freitas , Thaís Rodrigues , Guilherme Rodrigues , Pamella Edokawa , Ariane Farias

The training of task-oriented dialogue systems is often confronted with the lack of annotated data. In contrast to previous work which augments training data through expensive crowd-sourcing efforts, we propose four different automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Jun Quan , Deyi Xiong

Synthetically-generated data plays an increasingly larger role in training large language models. However, while synthetic data has been found to be useful, studies have also shown that without proper curation it can cause LLM performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Kareem Amin , Sara Babakniya , Alex Bie , Weiwei Kong , Umar Syed , Sergei Vassilvitskii

In this paper, we introduce TextBoost, an efficient one-shot personalization approach for text-to-image diffusion models. Traditional personalization methods typically involve fine-tuning extensive portions of the model, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 NaHyeon Park , Kunhee Kim , Hyunjung Shim

The quality of artificially generated texts has considerably improved with the advent of transformers. The question of using these models to generate learning data for supervised learning tasks naturally arises. In this article, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Vincent Claveau , Antoine Chaffin , Ewa Kijak

Online support groups for smoking cessation are economical and accessible, yet they often face challenges with low user engagement and stigma. The use of an automatic conversational agent would improve engagement by ensuring that all user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Salar Hashemitaheri , Ian Harris

While data augmentation is an important trick to boost the accuracy of deep learning methods in computer vision tasks, its study in natural language tasks is still very limited. In this paper, we present a novel data augmentation method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Jinhua Zhu , Fei Gao , Lijun Wu , Yingce Xia , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Xueqi Cheng , Tie-Yan Liu

Conventional image classifiers are trained by randomly sampling mini-batches of images. To achieve state-of-the-art performance, practitioners use sophisticated data augmentation schemes to expand the amount of training data available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Renkun Ni , Micah Goldblum , Amr Sharaf , Kezhi Kong , Tom Goldstein

Detection of some types of toxic language is hampered by extreme scarcity of labeled training data. Data augmentation - generating new synthetic data from a labeled seed dataset - can help. The efficacy of data augmentation on toxic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mika Juuti , Tommi Gröndahl , Adrian Flanagan , N. Asokan

Gradient boosting remains a strong and widely used method for tabular data learning, but its performance often degrades when training labels are noisy. This behavior is largely related to the way boosting algorithms emphasize samples with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ye Su , Longlong Zhao , Diego Garcia-Gil , Jipeng Guo , Gangchun Zhang , Jinxin Chen , Jinsong Chen

Text augmentation is an effective technique for addressing the problem of insufficient data in natural language processing. However, existing text augmentation methods tend to focus on few-shot scenarios and usually perform poorly on large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Heng Yang , Ke Li

As more and more artificial intelligence (AI) technologies move from the laboratory to real-world applications, the open-set and robustness challenges brought by data from the real world have received increasing attention. Data augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Zhendong Liu , Wenyu Jiang , Min guo , Chongjun Wang

Data augmentation has been shown to effectively improve the performance of multimodal machine learning models. This paper introduces a generative model for data augmentation by leveraging the correlations among multiple modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zixu Wang , Yishu Miao , Lucia Specia

In this paper, we investigate data augmentation for text generation, which we call GenAug. Text generation and language modeling are important tasks within natural language processing, and are especially challenging for low-data regimes. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Steven Y. Feng , Varun Gangal , Dongyeop Kang , Teruko Mitamura , Eduard Hovy

Advances in natural language processing, such as transfer learning from pre-trained language models, have impacted how models are trained for programming language tasks too. Previous research primarily explored code pre-training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Pinzhen Chen , Gerasimos Lampouras