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Data augmentation (DA) is ubiquitously used in training of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models. DA offers increased data variability, robustness and generalization against different acoustic distortions. Recently, personalization of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Pablo Peso Parada , Spyros Fontalis , Md Asif Jalal , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Anastasios Drosou , Mete Ozay , Gil Ho Lee , Jungin Lee , Seokyeong Jung

Data augmentation (DA) is a powerful workhorse for bolstering performance in modern machine learning. Specific augmentations like translations and scaling in computer vision are traditionally believed to improve generalization by generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Chi-Heng Lin , Chiraag Kaushik , Eva L. Dyer , Vidya Muthukumar

Recent works have empirically shown the effectiveness of data augmentation (DA) in NLP tasks, especially for those suffering from data scarcity. Intuitively, given the size of generated data, their diversity and quality are crucial to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Minyi Zhao , Lu Zhang , Yi Xu , Jiandong Ding , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Data augmentation (DA) has gained widespread popularity in deep speaker models due to its ease of implementation and significant effectiveness. It enriches training data by simulating real-life acoustic variations, enabling deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhenyu Zhou , Junhui Chen , Namin Wang , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Scaling laws dictate that the performance of AI models is proportional to the amount of available data. Data augmentation is a promising solution to expanding the dataset size. Traditional approaches focused on augmentation using rotation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Fazle Rahat , M Shifat Hossain , Md Rubel Ahmed , Sumit Kumar Jha , Rickard Ewetz

Data augmentation involves generating synthetic samples that resemble those in a given dataset. In resource-limited fields where high-quality data is scarce, augmentation plays a crucial role in increasing the volume of training data. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Md. Tariquzzaman , Audwit Nafi Anam , Naimul Haque , Mohsinul Kabir , Hasan Mahmud , Md Kamrul Hasan

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 (DA) is widely employed to improve the generalization performance of deep models. However, most existing DA methods employ augmentation operations with fixed or random magnitudes throughout the training process. While this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Suorong Yang , Peijia Li , Xin Xiong , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Data augmentation (DA) is crucial to mitigate model training instability and over-fitting problems in low-resource open-domain dialogue generation. However, traditional DA methods often neglect semantic data diversity, restricting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhenhua Liu , Tong Zhu , Jianxiang Xiang , Wenliang Chen

Data augmentation is a critical component of deep learning pipelines, enhancing model generalization by increasing dataset diversity. Traditional augmentation strategies rely on manually designed transformations, stochastic sampling, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ant Duru , Alptekin Temizel

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

Unsupervised Data Augmentation (UDA) is a semi-supervised technique that applies a consistency loss to penalize differences between a model's predictions on (a) observed (unlabeled) examples; and (b) corresponding 'noised' examples produced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 David Lowell , Brian E. Howard , Zachary C. Lipton , Byron C. Wallace

The development of fair and ethical AI systems requires careful consideration of bias mitigation, an area often overlooked or ignored. In this study, we introduce a novel and efficient approach for addressing biases called Targeted Data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Agnieszka Mikołajczyk-Bareła , Maria Ferlin , Michał Grochowski

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

Recently, data augmentation (DA) has emerged as a method for leveraging domain knowledge to inexpensively generate additional data in reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, often yielding substantial improvements in data efficiency. While prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Nicholas E. Corrado , Josiah P. Hanna

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

We propose a novel algorithm for data augmentation in nonlinear over-parametrized regression. Our data augmentation algorithm borrows from the literature on causality and extends the recently proposed Anchor regression (AR) method for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Nora Schneider , Shirin Goshtasbpour , Fernando Perez-Cruz

The proliferation of deep learning solutions and the scarcity of large annotated datasets pose significant challenges in real-world applications. Various strategies have been explored to overcome this challenge, with data augmentation (DA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Fabio A. Faria , Mateus M. Souza , Raoni F. da S. Teixeira , Mauricio P. Segundo

Data Augmentation (DA) has become a critical approach in Time Series Classification (TSC), primarily for its capacity to expand training datasets, enhance model robustness, introduce diversity, and reduce overfitting. However, the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zijun Gao , Haibao Liu , Lingbo Li

Data augmentation has become a standard component of vision pre-trained models to capture the invariance between augmented views. In practice, augmentation techniques that mask regions of a sample with zero/mean values or patches from other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shentong Mo , Zhun Sun , Chao Li