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Data augmentation has been widely applied as an effective methodology to improve generalization in particular when training deep neural networks. Recently, researchers proposed a few intensive data augmentation techniques, which indeed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zhuoxun He , Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

In this paper we propose a novel augmentation technique that improves not only the performance of deep neural networks on clean test data, but also significantly increases their robustness to random transformations, both affine and…

Data Augmentation (DA) -- enriching training data by adding synthetic samples -- is a technique widely adopted in Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks to improve models performance. Yet, DA has struggled to gain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Chao Wang , Alessandro Finamore , Pietro Michiardi , Massimo Gallo , Dario Rossi

Generative flows are promising tractable models for density modeling that define probabilistic distributions with invertible transformations. However, tractability imposes architectural constraints on generative flows, making them less…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Jianfei Chen , Cheng Lu , Biqi Chenli , Jun Zhu , Tian Tian

Deep learning models with a large number of parameters, often referred to as over-parameterized models, have achieved exceptional performance across various tasks. Despite concerns about overfitting, these models frequently generalize well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ilya Kaufman Sirot , Omri Azencot

Data augmentation is a key element in training high-dimensional models. In this approach, one synthesizes new observations by applying pre-specified transformations to the original training data; e.g.~new images are formed by rotating old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Søren Hauberg , Oren Freifeld , Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen , John W. Fisher , Lars Kai Hansen

Image classification has been a popular task due to its feasibility in real-world applications. Training neural networks by feeding them RGB images has demonstrated success over it. Nevertheless, improving the classification accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tianhao Bu , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

Recent work developed convolutional deep kernel machines, achieving 92.7% test accuracy on CIFAR-10 using a ResNet-inspired architecture, which is SOTA for kernel methods. However, this still lags behind neural networks, which easily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-10 Edward Milsom , Ben Anson , Laurence Aitchison

Data augmentation is an essential technique in natural language processing (NLP) for enriching training datasets by generating diverse samples. This process is crucial for improving the robustness and generalization capabilities of NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zaitian Wang , Jinghan Zhang , Xinhao Zhang , Kunpeng Liu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

Data augmentation is one of the most effective techniques for regularizing deep learning models and improving their recognition performance in a variety of tasks and domains. However, this holds for standard in-domain settings, in which the…

Adversarial training is an effective methodology for training deep neural networks that are robust against adversarial, norm-bounded perturbations. However, the computational cost of adversarial training grows prohibitively as the size of…

Graphical models capture relations between entities in a wide range of applications including social networks, biology, and natural language processing, among others. Graph neural networks (GNN) are neural models that operate over graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Xu Zheng , Farhad Shirani , Tianchun Wang , Shouwei Gao , Wenqian Dong , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo

Deep learning models have demonstrated outstanding performance in several problems, but their training process tends to require immense amounts of computational and human resources for training and labeling, constraining the types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Toan Tran , Thanh-Toan Do , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

Network weights can be reverse-engineered given enough informative samples of a network's input-output function. In a teacher-student setup, this translates into collecting a dataset of the teacher mapping -- querying the teacher -- and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Alexander Beiser , Flavio Martinelli , Wulfram Gerstner , Johanni Brea

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a class of generative models distinguished by a mathematically invertible architecture, where the forward pass transforms data into a latent space for density estimation, and the reverse pass generates new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yang Chen , Xiaowei Xu , Shuai Wang , Chenhui Zhu , Ruxue Wen , Xubin Li , Tiezheng Ge , Limin Wang

Several image processing tasks, such as image classification and object detection, have been significantly improved using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Like ResNet and EfficientNet, many architectures have achieved outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Claudio Filipi Gonçalves dos Santos , João Paulo Papa

Recent studies have demonstrated remarkable advancements in source code learning, which applies deep neural networks (DNNs) to tackle various software engineering tasks. Similar to other DNN-based domains, source code learning also requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zeming Dong , Qiang Hu , Yuejun Guo , Zhenya Zhang , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon , Jianjun Zhao

Recent work has shown that data augmentation has the potential to significantly improve the generalization of deep learning models. Recently, automated augmentation strategies have led to state-of-the-art results in image classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Ekin D. Cubuk , Barret Zoph , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le