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Hate speech is one of the main threats posed by the widespread use of social networks, despite efforts to limit it. Although attention has been devoted to this issue, the lack of datasets and case studies centered around scarcely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Camilla Casula , Sara Tonelli

This paper tackles one of the greatest limitations in Machine Learning: Data Scarcity. Specifically, we explore whether high accuracy classifiers can be built from small datasets, utilizing a combination of data augmentation techniques and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Chetanya Rastogi , Nikka Mofid , Fang-I Hsiao

Despite the fact that data imbalance is becoming more and more common in real-world Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) applications, it has not been studied extensively in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Judith Gaspers , Quynh Do , Fabian Triefenbach

Recurrence data arise from multi-disciplinary domains spanning reliability, cyber security, healthcare, online retailing, etc. This paper investigates an additive-tree-based approach, known as Boost-R (Boosting for Recurrence Data), for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Xiao Liu , Rong Pan

Current techniques face difficulties in generating motions from intricate semantic descriptions, primarily due to insufficient semantic annotations in datasets and weak contextual understanding. To address these issues, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xin He , Shaoli Huang , Xiaohang Zhan , Chao Weng , Ying Shan

Many recent approaches to structured NLP tasks use an autoregressive language model $M$ to map unstructured input text $x$ to output text $y$ representing structured objects (such as tuples, lists, trees, code, etc.), where the desired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Marija Šakota , Robert West

Deep learning has achieved remarkable results in many computer vision tasks. Deep neural networks typically rely on large amounts of training data to avoid overfitting. However, labeled data for real-world applications may be limited. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Suorong Yang , Weikang Xiao , Mengchen Zhang , Suhan Guo , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

The performance of generative adversarial networks (GANs) heavily deteriorates given a limited amount of training data. This is mainly because the discriminator is memorizing the exact training set. To combat it, we propose Differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shengyu Zhao , Zhijian Liu , Ji Lin , Jun-Yan Zhu , Song Han

We consider the problem of classification in a comparison-based setting: given a set of objects, we only have access to triplet comparisons of the form "object $x_i$ is closer to object $x_j$ than to object $x_k$." In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-30 Michaël Perrot , Ulrike von Luxburg

Mixup is the latest data augmentation technique that linearly interpolates input examples and the corresponding labels. It has shown strong effectiveness in image classification by interpolating images at the pixel level. Inspired by this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Lichao Sun , Congying Xia , Wenpeng Yin , Tingting Liang , Philip S. Yu , Lifang He

Semi-supervised learning lately has shown much promise in improving deep learning models when labeled data is scarce. Common among recent approaches is the use of consistency training on a large amount of unlabeled data to constrain model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Qizhe Xie , Zihang Dai , Eduard Hovy , Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le

Data augmentation forms the cornerstone of many modern machine learning training pipelines; yet, the mechanisms by which it works are not clearly understood. Much of the research on data augmentation (DA) has focused on improving existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Damien A. Dablain , Nitesh V. Chawla

Test cases are indispensable for conducting effective fault localization (FL). However, test cases in practice are severely class imbalanced, i.e. the number of failing test cases (i.e. minority class) is much less than that of passing ones…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shihao Fu , Yan Lei

Data augmentation is a necessity to enhance data efficiency in deep learning. For vision-language pre-training, data is only augmented either for images or for text in previous works. In this paper, we present MixGen: a joint data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Xiaoshuai Hao , Yi Zhu , Srikar Appalaraju , Aston Zhang , Wanqian Zhang , Bo Li , Mu Li

Despite the rapid growth in model architecture, the scarcity of large parallel corpora remains the main bottleneck in Neural Machine Translation. Data augmentation is a technique that enhances the performance of data-hungry models by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Seokjin Oh , Su Ah Lee , Woohwan Jung

Instruction fine-tuning is crucial in NLP tasks, enhancing pretrained models' instruction-following capabilities and task-specific performance. However, obtaining high-quality fine-tuning data for large models is challenging due to data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Liang Yue , Yihong Tang , Kehai Chen , Jie Liu , Min Zhang

Numerous studies attempt to mitigate classification bias caused by class imbalance. However, existing studies have yet to explore the collaborative optimization of imbalanced learning and model training. This constraint hinders further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chuantao Li , Zhi Li , Jiahao Xu , Jie Li , Sheng Li

Real world datasets contain incorrectly labeled instances that hamper the performance of the model and, in particular, the ability to generalize out of distribution. Also, each example might have different contribution towards learning.…

In this work, we examine methods for data augmentation for text-based tasks such as neural machine translation (NMT). We formulate the design of a data augmentation policy with desirable properties as an optimization problem, and derive a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Xinyi Wang , Hieu Pham , Zihang Dai , Graham Neubig

Supervised deep learning methods for segmentation require large amounts of labelled training data, without which they are prone to overfitting, not generalizing well to unseen images. In practice, obtaining a large number of annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Krishna Chaitanya , Neerav Karani , Christian Baumgartner , Olivio Donati , Anton Becker , Ender Konukoglu