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Deep learning techniques are often criticized to heavily depend on a large quantity of labeled data. This problem is even more challenging in medical image analysis where the annotator expertise is often scarce. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Florian Dubost , Gerda Bortsova , Hieab Adams , M. Arfan Ikram , Wiro Niessen , Meike Vernooij , Marleen de Bruijne

Benign overfitting, the phenomenon where interpolating models generalize well in the presence of noisy data, was first observed in neural network models trained with gradient descent. To better understand this empirical observation, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Spencer Frei , Niladri S. Chatterji , Peter L. Bartlett

Data augmentation is a popular technique which helps improve generalization capabilities of deep neural networks. It plays a pivotal role in remote-sensing scenarios in which the amount of high-quality ground truth data is limited, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Jakub Nalepa , Michal Myller , Michal Kawulok

Recently deep neural networks have been successfully used for various classification tasks, especially for problems with massive perfectly labeled training data. However, it is often costly to have large-scale credible labels in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Mingxiao An , Yongzhou Chen , Qi Liu , Chuanren Liu , Guangyi Lv , Fangzhao Wu , Jianhui Ma

Regularization is typically understood as improving generalization by altering the landscape of local extrema to which the model eventually converges. Deep neural networks (DNNs), however, challenge this view: We show that removing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Aditya Golatkar , Alessandro Achille , Stefano Soatto

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

There is a common belief that the successful training of deep neural networks requires many annotated training samples, which are often expensive and difficult to obtain especially in the biomedical imaging field. While it is often easy for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Tony C. W Mok , Albert C. S Chung

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

Deep neural networks have emerged as very successful tools for image restoration and reconstruction tasks. These networks are often trained end-to-end to directly reconstruct an image from a noisy or corrupted measurement of that image. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Zalan Fabian , Reinhard Heckel , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

The successful training of deep neural networks requires addressing challenges such as overfitting, numerical instabilities leading to divergence, and increasing variance in the residual stream. A common solution is to apply regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jörg K. H. Franke , Urs Spiegelhalter , Marianna Nezhurina , Jenia Jitsev , Frank Hutter , Michael Hefenbrock

A growing body of work shows that models exploit annotation artifacts to achieve state-of-the-art performance on standard crowdsourced benchmarks---datasets collected from crowdworkers to create an evaluation task---while still failing on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 William Huang , Haokun Liu , Samuel R. Bowman

Modern neural networks are over-parameterized and thus rely on strong regularization such as data augmentation and weight decay to reduce overfitting and improve generalization. The dominant form of data augmentation applies invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yang Liu , Shen Yan , Laura Leal-Taixé , James Hays , Deva Ramanan

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

Adversarial training and its variants have become de facto standards for learning robust deep neural networks. In this paper, we explore the landscape around adversarial training in a bid to uncover its limits. We systematically study the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-31 Sven Gowal , Chongli Qin , Jonathan Uesato , Timothy Mann , Pushmeet Kohli

This study investigates the impact of regularization of latent spaces through truncation on the quality of generated test inputs for deep learning classifiers. We evaluate this effect using style-based GANs, a state-of-the-art generative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Giorgi Merabishvili , Oliver Weißl , Andrea Stocco

Data augmentation is popular in the training of large neural networks; currently, however, there is no clear theoretical comparison between different algorithmic choices on how to use augmented data. In this paper, we take a step in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Shuo Yang , Yijun Dong , Rachel Ward , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Sujay Sanghavi , Qi Lei

As the adoption of deep learning techniques in industrial applications grows with increasing speed and scale, successful deployment of deep learning models often hinges on the availability, volume, and quality of annotated data. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Haoping Bai , Meng Cao , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan

In this paper we investigate the benefit of augmenting data with synthetically created samples when training a machine learning classifier. Two approaches for creating additional training samples are data warping, which generates additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Sebastien C. Wong , Adam Gatt , Victor Stamatescu , Mark D. McDonnell

A major impediment to the application of deep learning to real-world problems is the scarcity of labeled data. Small training sets are in fact of no use to deep networks as, due to the large number of trainable parameters, they will very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ismail Elezi , Alessandro Torcinovich , Sebastiano Vascon , Marcello Pelillo

Deep learning (DL) algorithms have shown significant performance in various computer vision tasks. However, having limited labelled data lead to a network overfitting problem, where network performance is bad on unseen data as compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Teerath Kumar , Alessandra Mileo , Rob Brennan , Malika Bendechache