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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

Data augmentation is widely utilized as an effective technique to enhance the generalization performance of deep models. However, data augmentation may inevitably introduce distribution shifts and noises, which significantly constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Suorong Yang , Hongchao Yang , Suhan Guo , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

In this paper, we present an effective data augmentation framework leveraging the Large Language Model (LLM) and Diffusion Model (DM) to tackle the challenges inherent in data-scarce scenarios. Recently, DMs have opened up the possibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Kyuheon Jung , Yongdeuk Seo , Seongwoo Cho , Jaeyoung Kim , Hyun-seok Min , Sungchul Choi

Data augmentation has proven widely effective in computer vision. In Natural Language Processing (NLP) data augmentation remains an area of active research. There is no widely accepted augmentation technique that works well across tasks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Isabel Garcia Pietri , Kineret Stanley

Data augmentation is essential to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many deep learning applications. However, the most effective augmentation techniques become computationally prohibitive for even medium-sized datasets. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tian Yu Liu , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Tabular data is prevalent in many critical domains, yet it is often challenging to acquire in large quantities. This scarcity usually results in poor performance of machine learning models on such data. Data augmentation, a common strategy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Andrei Margeloiu , Adrián Bazaga , Nikola Simidjievski , Pietro Liò , Mateja Jamnik

Data augmentation, a cornerstone technique in deep learning, is crucial in enhancing model performance, especially with scarce labeled data. While traditional techniques are effective, their reliance on hand-crafted methods limits their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mucong Ding , Bang An , Yuancheng Xu , Anirudh Satheesh , Furong Huang

Meta-training, which fine-tunes the language model (LM) on various downstream tasks by maximizing the likelihood of the target label given the task instruction and input instance, has improved the zero-shot task generalization performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Seonghyeon Ye , Doyoung Kim , Joel Jang , Joongbo Shin , Minjoon Seo

Data augmentation is an effective way to diversify corpora in machine translation, but previous methods may introduce semantic inconsistency between original and augmented data because of irreversible operations and random subword sampling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jiashu Yao , Heyan Huang , Zeming Liu , Yuhang Guo

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 augmentation techniques have been widely used to improve machine learning performance as they enhance the generalization capability of models. In this work, to generate high quality synthetic data for low-resource tagging tasks, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Bosheng Ding , Linlin Liu , Lidong Bing , Canasai Kruengkrai , Thien Hai Nguyen , Shafiq Joty , Luo Si , Chunyan Miao

Recent work has demonstrated that using parameter efficient tuning techniques such as prefix tuning (or P-tuning) on pretrained language models can yield performance that is comparable or superior to fine-tuning while dramatically reducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Stephen Obadinma , Hongyu Guo , Xiaodan Zhu

Data augmentation has been widely used to improve deep neural networks in many research fields, such as computer vision. However, less work has been done in the context of text, partially due to its discrete nature and the complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Ping Yu , Ruiyi Zhang , Yang Zhao , Yizhe Zhang , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen

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

Text data augmentation is an effective strategy for overcoming the challenge of limited sample sizes in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. This challenge is especially prominent in the few-shot learning scenario, where the data…

Practical sequence classification tasks in natural language processing often suffer from low training data availability for target classes. Recent works towards mitigating this problem have focused on transfer learning using embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Manoj Kumar , Varun Kumar , Hadrien Glaude , Cyprien delichy , Aman Alok , Rahul Gupta

Data augmentation is a ubiquitous technique for increasing the size of labeled training sets by leveraging task-specific data transformations that preserve class labels. While it is often easy for domain experts to specify individual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Alexander J. Ratner , Henry R. Ehrenberg , Zeshan Hussain , Jared Dunnmon , Christopher Ré

Data Augmentation (DA) is frequently used to provide additional training data without extra human annotation automatically. However, data augmentation may introduce noisy data that impairs training. To guarantee the quality of augmented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Tianqing Fang , Wenxuan Zhou , Fangyu Liu , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Muhao Chen

NLP has achieved great progress in the past decade through the use of neural models and large labeled datasets. The dependence on abundant data prevents NLP models from being applied to low-resource settings or novel tasks where significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jiaao Chen , Derek Tam , Colin Raffel , Mohit Bansal , Diyi Yang

Data augmentation (DA) is a crucial technique for enhancing the sample efficiency of visual reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Notably, employing simple observation transformations alone can yield outstanding performance without extra…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Guozheng Ma , Linrui Zhang , Haoyu Wang , Lu Li , Zilin Wang , Zhen Wang , Li Shen , Xueqian Wang , Dacheng Tao