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Mixup is a powerful data augmentation method that interpolates between two or more examples in the input or feature space and between the corresponding target labels. Many recent mixup methods focus on cutting and pasting two or more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shashanka Venkataramanan , Ewa Kijak , Laurent Amsaleg , Yannis Avrithis

In recent years, mixup regularization has gained popularity as an effective way to improve the generalization performance of deep learning models by training on convex combinations of training data. While many mixup variants have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yousef El-Laham , Niccolò Dalmasso , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Vamsi K. Potluru , Manuela Veloso

Deep neural networks excel at learning the training data, but often provide incorrect and confident predictions when evaluated on slightly different test examples. This includes distribution shifts, outliers, and adversarial examples. To…

Fair and trustworthy AI is becoming ever more important in both machine learning and legal domains. One important consequence is that decision makers must seek to guarantee a 'fair', i.e., non-discriminatory, algorithmic decision procedure.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Meike Zehlike , Alex Loosley , Håkan Jonsson , Emil Wiedemann , Philipp Hacker

Mixup style data augmentation algorithms have been widely adopted in various tasks as implicit network regularization on representation learning to improve model generalization, which can be achieved by a linear interpolation of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Kangjun Liu , Ke Chen , Lihua Guo , Yaowei Wang , Kui Jia

Mixup is a popular data augmentation technique based on taking convex combinations of pairs of examples and their labels. This simple technique has been shown to substantially improve both the robustness and the generalization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Linjun Zhang , Zhun Deng , Kenji Kawaguchi , Amirata Ghorbani , James Zou

Mixup is a popular data augmentation technique for training deep neural networks where additional samples are generated by linearly interpolating pairs of inputs and their labels. This technique is known to improve the generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yingtian Zou , Vikas Verma , Sarthak Mittal , Wai Hoh Tang , Hieu Pham , Juho Kannala , Yoshua Bengio , Arno Solin , Kenji Kawaguchi

Despite a surge of recent advances in promoting machine Learning (ML) fairness, the existing mainstream approaches mostly require retraining or finetuning the entire weights of the neural network to meet the fairness criteria. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Guanhua Zhang , Yihua Zhang , Yang Zhang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang

Mixup refers to interpolation-based data augmentation, originally motivated as a way to go beyond empirical risk minimization (ERM). Yet, its extensions focus on the definition of interpolation and the space where it takes place, while the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Shashanka Venkataramanan , Ewa Kijak , Laurent Amsaleg , Yannis Avrithis

Mixup, a recent proposed data augmentation method through linearly interpolating inputs and modeling targets of random samples, has demonstrated its capability of significantly improving the predictive accuracy of the state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Hongyu Guo , Yongyi Mao , Richong Zhang

Context: Machine learning software can generate models that inappropriately discriminate against specific protected social groups (e.g., groups based on gender, ethnicity, etc). Motivated by those results, software engineering researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Kewen Peng , Joymallya Chakraborty , Tim Menzies

The issue of fairness in machine learning stems from the fact that historical data often displays biases against specific groups of people which have been underprivileged in the recent past, or still are. In this context, one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mattia Cerrato , Marius Köppel , Alexander Segner , Stefan Kramer

We consider the problem of producing fair probabilistic classifiers for multi-class classification tasks. We formulate this problem in terms of "projecting" a pre-trained (and potentially unfair) classifier onto the set of models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Wael Alghamdi , Hsiang Hsu , Haewon Jeong , Hao Wang , P. Winston Michalak , Shahab Asoodeh , Flavio P. Calmon

Data augmentation with \textbf{Mixup} has been proven an effective method to regularize the current deep neural networks. Mixup generates virtual samples and corresponding labels at once through linear interpolation. However, this one-stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xiangjin Xie , Yangning Li , Wang Chen , Kai Ouyang , Li Jiang , Haitao Zheng

In algorithmically fair prediction problems, a standard goal is to ensure the equality of fairness metrics across multiple overlapping groups simultaneously. We reconsider this standard fair classification problem using a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Forest Yang , Moustapha Cisse , Sanmi Koyejo

Mixup is a data augmentation technique that creates new examples as convex combinations of training points and labels. This simple technique has empirically shown to improve the accuracy of many state-of-the-art models in different settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Luigi Carratino , Moustapha Cissé , Rodolphe Jenatton , Jean-Philippe Vert

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

Mixup is a widely adopted data augmentation technique known for enhancing the generalization of machine learning models by interpolating between data points. Despite its success and popularity, limited attention has been given to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Chungpa Lee , Jongho Im , Joseph H. T. Kim

Algorithmic fairness plays an important role in machine learning and imposing fairness constraints during learning is a common approach. However, many datasets are imbalanced in certain label classes (e.g. "healthy") and sensitive subgroups…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Zhun Deng , Jiayao Zhang , Linjun Zhang , Ting Ye , Yates Coley , Weijie J. Su , James Zou

In this paper, we propose an innovative approach to thoroughly explore dataset features that introduce bias in downstream machine-learning tasks. Depending on the data format, we use different techniques to map instances into a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Samira Maghool , Paolo Ceravolo