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We describe the task of sentence expansion and enhancement, in which a sentence provided by a human is expanded in some creative way. The expansion should be understandable, believably grammatical, and optimally meaning-preserving. Sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Yuri Safovich , Amos Azaria

Manipulating data, such as weighting data examples or augmenting with new instances, has been increasingly used to improve model training. Previous work has studied various rule- or learning-based approaches designed for specific types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Zhiting Hu , Bowen Tan , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Tom Mitchell , Eric P. Xing

Data augmentation (DA) techniques aim to increase data variability, and thus train deep networks with better generalisation. The pioneering AutoAugment automated the search for optimal DA policies with reinforcement learning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Yonggang Li , Guosheng Hu , Yongtao Wang , Timothy Hospedales , Neil M. Robertson , Yongxin Yang

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

The recent advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred considerable research interest in extending their linguistic capabilities beyond text to other modalities, which leads to emergence of speech-based LLMs (SpeechLMs) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yansong Liu , Jiateng Li , Yuan Liu

Neural language models are often trained with maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), where the next word is generated conditioned on the ground-truth word tokens. During testing, however, the model is instead conditioned on previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Guoyin Wang , Chunyuan Li , Jianqiao Li , Hao Fu , Yuh-Chen Lin , Liqun Chen , Yizhe Zhang , Chenyang Tao , Ruiyi Zhang , Wenlin Wang , Dinghan Shen , Qian Yang , Lawrence Carin

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

Handwritten text and scene text suffer from various shapes and distorted patterns. Thus training a robust recognition model requires a large amount of data to cover diversity as much as possible. In contrast to data collection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Canjie Luo , Yuanzhi Zhu , Lianwen Jin , Yongpan Wang

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

The ability of generative language models (GLMs) to generate text has improved considerably in the last few years, enabling their use for generative data augmentation. In this work, we propose CONDA, an approach to further improve GLMs'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Dheeraj Mekala , Tu Vu , Timo Schick , Jingbo Shang

Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is the predominant algorithm for training text generation models. This paradigm relies on direct supervision examples, which is not applicable to many emerging applications, such as generating adversarial…

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In recent years, the use of large language models (LLMs) for text classification has attracted widespread attention. Despite this, the classification accuracy of LLMs has not yet universally surpassed that of smaller models. LLMs can…

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Machine learning (ML) on tabular data is ubiquitous, yet obtaining abundant high-quality tabular data for model training remains a significant obstacle. Numerous works have focused on tabular data augmentation (TDA) to enhance the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Lingxi Cui , Huan Li , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

A common training approach for language models involves using a large-scale language model to expand a human-provided dataset, which is subsequently used for model training.This method significantly reduces training costs by eliminating the…

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A recurring problem faced when training neural networks is that there is typically not enough data to maximize the generalization capability of deep neural networks(DNN). There are many techniques to address this, including data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Joseph Lemley , Shabab Bazrafkan , Peter Corcoran

Data augmentation is a widely used technique in machine learning to improve model performance. However, existing data augmentation techniques in natural language understanding (NLU) may not fully capture the complexity of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zhengqing Yuan , Xiaolong Zhang , Yue Wang , Xuecong Hou , Huiwen Xue , Zhuanzhe Zhao , Yongming Liu

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

Text data augmentation is a widely used strategy for mitigating data sparsity in natural language processing (NLP), particularly in low-resource settings where limited samples hinder effective semantic modeling. While augmentation can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Payal Bhattad , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao , Anju Gupta

Data augmentation is proven to be effective in many NLU tasks, especially for those suffering from data scarcity. In this paper, we present a powerful and easy to deploy text augmentation framework, Data Boost, which augments data through…

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