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In practice, it is common to find oneself with far too little text data to train a deep neural network. This "Big Data Wall" represents a challenge for minority language communities on the Internet, organizations, laboratories and companies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Claude Coulombe

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Brandon Trabucco , Kyle Doherty , Max Gurinas , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

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

Deep artificial neural networks require a large corpus of training data in order to effectively learn, where collection of such training data is often expensive and laborious. Data augmentation overcomes this issue by artificially inflating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Luke Taylor , Geoff Nitschke

Data augmentation is a widely used training trick in deep learning to improve the network generalization ability. Despite many encouraging results, several recent studies did point out limitations of the conventional data augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yi Xu , Asaf Noy , Ming Lin , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Data augmentation is an effective performance enhancement in neural machine translation (NMT) by generating additional bilingual data. In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation enhancement strategy for neural machine translation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Sufeng Duan , Hai Zhao , Dongdong Zhang , Rui Wang

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

This paper presents a novel data augmentation technique for text-to-speech (TTS), that allows to generate new (text, audio) training examples without requiring any additional data. Our goal is to increase diversity of text conditionings…

Data scarcity is a problem that occurs in languages and tasks where we do not have large amounts of labeled data but want to use state-of-the-art models. Such models are often deep learning models that require a significant amount of data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Domagoj Pluščec , Jan Šnajder

Data availability is a bottleneck during early stages of development of new capabilities for intelligent artificial agents. We investigate the use of text generation techniques to augment the training data of a popular commercial artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Nikolaos Malandrakis , Minmin Shen , Anuj Goyal , Shuyang Gao , Abhishek Sethi , Angeliki Metallinou

Data augmentation methods have been shown to be a fundamental technique to improve generalization in tasks such as image, text and audio classification. Recently, automated augmentation methods have led to further improvements on image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Elizabeth Fons , Paula Dawson , Xiao-jun Zeng , John Keane , Alexandros Iosifidis

In the field of text data augmentation, rule-based methods are widely adopted for real-world applications owing to their cost-efficiency. However, conventional rule-based approaches suffer from the possibility of losing the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Juhwan Choi , YoungBin Kim

Data augmentation is an effective technique for improving the performance of machine learning models. However, it has not been explored as extensively in natural language processing (NLP) as it has in computer vision. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Himmet Toprak Kesgin , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali

Data augmentation is commonly used to encode invariances in learning methods. However, this process is often performed in an inefficient manner, as artificial examples are created by applying a number of transformations to all points in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Michael Kuchnik , Virginia Smith

Dynamic data selection aims to accelerate training with lossless performance. However, reducing training data inherently limits data diversity, potentially hindering generalization. While data augmentation is widely used to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Suorong Yang , Peng Ye , Furao Shen , Dongzhan Zhou

Data augmentation policies drastically improve the performance of image recognition tasks, especially when the policies are optimized for the target data and tasks. In this paper, we propose to optimize image recognition models and data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ryuichiro Hataya , Jan Zdenek , Kazuki Yoshizoe , Hideki Nakayama

Data augmentation is an essential part of the training process applied to deep learning models. The motivation is that a robust training process for deep learning models depends on large annotated datasets, which are expensive to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Toan Tran , Trung Pham , Gustavo Carneiro , Lyle Palmer , Ian Reid

We propose a training-free approach to improve sentence embeddings leveraging test-time compute by applying generative text models for data augmentation at inference time. Unlike conventional data augmentation that utilises synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Manuel Frank , Haithem Afli

Augmenting training datasets has been shown to improve the learning effectiveness for several computer vision tasks. A good augmentation produces an augmented dataset that adds variability while retaining the statistical properties of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Tom Ching LingChen , Ava Khonsari , Amirreza Lashkari , Mina Rafi Nazari , Jaspreet Singh Sambee , Mario A. Nascimento

In this paper, we explore and compare multiple solutions to the problem of data augmentation in image classification. Previous work has demonstrated the effectiveness of data augmentation through simple techniques, such as cropping,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Luis Perez , Jason Wang