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Data augmentation (DA) encodes invariance and provides implicit regularization critical to a model's performance in image classification tasks. However, while DA improves average accuracy, recent studies have shown that its impact can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim , Randall Balestriero , Diane Bouchacourt , Ramakrishna Vedantam , Hamed Firooz , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Data augmentation is arguably the most important regularization technique commonly used to improve generalization performance of machine learning models. It primarily involves the application of appropriate data transformation operations to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Alhassan Mumuni , Fuseini Mumuni

Data augmentation is known to contribute significantly to the robustness of machine learning models. In most instances, data augmentation is utilized during the training phase. Test-Time Augmentation (TTA) is a technique that instead…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-20 Masanari Kimura , Howard Bondell

Data augmentation is an important component in the robustness evaluation of models in natural language processing (NLP) and in enhancing the diversity of the data they are trained on. In this paper, we present NL-Augmenter, a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Kaustubh D. Dhole , Varun Gangal , Sebastian Gehrmann , Aadesh Gupta , Zhenhao Li , Saad Mahamood , Abinaya Mahendiran , Simon Mille , Ashish Shrivastava , Samson Tan , Tongshuang Wu , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Jinho D. Choi , Eduard Hovy , Ondrej Dusek , Sebastian Ruder , Sajant Anand , Nagender Aneja , Rabin Banjade , Lisa Barthe , Hanna Behnke , Ian Berlot-Attwell , Connor Boyle , Caroline Brun , Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Emile Chapuis , Wanxiang Che , Mukund Choudhary , Christian Clauss , Pierre Colombo , Filip Cornell , Gautier Dagan , Mayukh Das , Tanay Dixit , Thomas Dopierre , Paul-Alexis Dray , Suchitra Dubey , Tatiana Ekeinhor , Marco Di Giovanni , Tanya Goyal , Rishabh Gupta , Rishabh Gupta , Louanes Hamla , Sang Han , Fabrice Harel-Canada , Antoine Honore , Ishan Jindal , Przemyslaw K. Joniak , Denis Kleyko , Venelin Kovatchev , Kalpesh Krishna , Ashutosh Kumar , Stefan Langer , Seungjae Ryan Lee , Corey James Levinson , Hualou Liang , Kaizhao Liang , Zhexiong Liu , Andrey Lukyanenko , Vukosi Marivate , Gerard de Melo , Simon Meoni , Maxime Meyer , Afnan Mir , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Niklas Muennighoff , Timothy Sum Hon Mun , Kenton Murray , Marcin Namysl , Maria Obedkova , Priti Oli , Nivranshu Pasricha , Jan Pfister , Richard Plant , Vinay Prabhu , Vasile Pais , Libo Qin , Shahab Raji , Pawan Kumar Rajpoot , Vikas Raunak , Roy Rinberg , Nicolas Roberts , Juan Diego Rodriguez , Claude Roux , Vasconcellos P. H. S. , Ananya B. Sai , Robin M. Schmidt , Thomas Scialom , Tshephisho Sefara , Saqib N. Shamsi , Xudong Shen , Haoyue Shi , Yiwen Shi , Anna Shvets , Nick Siegel , Damien Sileo , Jamie Simon , Chandan Singh , Roman Sitelew , Priyank Soni , Taylor Sorensen , William Soto , Aman Srivastava , KV Aditya Srivatsa , Tony Sun , Mukund Varma T , A Tabassum , Fiona Anting Tan , Ryan Teehan , Mo Tiwari , Marie Tolkiehn , Athena Wang , Zijian Wang , Gloria Wang , Zijie J. Wang , Fuxuan Wei , Bryan Wilie , Genta Indra Winata , Xinyi Wu , Witold Wydmański , Tianbao Xie , Usama Yaseen , Michael A. Yee , Jing Zhang , Yue Zhang

As it is cumbersome and expensive to acquire a huge amount of data for training neural dialog models, data augmentation is proposed to effectively utilize existing training samples. However, current data augmentation techniques on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Xiuying Chen , Mingzhe Li , Jiayi Zhang , Xiaoqiang Xia , Chen Wei , Jianwei Cui , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang , Rui Yan

Dataset augmentation, the practice of applying a wide array of domain-specific transformations to synthetically expand a training set, is a standard tool in supervised learning. While effective in tasks such as visual recognition, the set…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-21 Terrance DeVries , Graham W. Taylor

Training a deep learning model to classify histopathological images is challenging, because of the color and shape variability of the cells and tissues, and the reduced amount of available data, which does not allow proper learning of those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Saypraseuth Mounsaveng , Issam Laradji , David Vázquez , Marco Perdersoli , Ismail Ben Ayed

Data augmentation is a widely used and effective technique to improve the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Yet, despite often facing limited data availability when working with medical images, it is frequently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Adam Tupper , Christian Gagné

The standard approach to tackling computer vision problems is to train deep convolutional neural network (CNN) models using large-scale image datasets which are representative of the target task. However, in many scenarios, it is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Alhassan Mumuni , Fuseini Mumuni , Nana Kobina Gerrar

In the past five years, research has shifted from traditional Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) approaches to leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) , including multimodality, for data augmentation to enhance generalization, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ranjan Sapkota , Shaina Raza , Maged Shoman , Achyut Paudel , Manoj Karkee

Advances in natural language processing, such as transfer learning from pre-trained language models, have impacted how models are trained for programming language tasks too. Previous research primarily explored code pre-training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Pinzhen Chen , Gerasimos Lampouras

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a machine learning task that traditionally relies on supervised learning and annotated data. Acquiring such data is often a challenge, particularly in specialized fields like medical, legal, and financial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Arthur Elwing Torres , Edleno Silva de Moura , Altigran Soares da Silva , Mario A. Nascimento , Filipe Mesquita

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

Data augmentation has been demonstrated as an effective strategy for improving model generalization and data efficiency. However, due to the discrete nature of natural language, designing label-preserving transformations for text data tends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Yanru Qu , Dinghan Shen , Yelong Shen , Sandra Sajeev , Jiawei Han , Weizhu Chen

With the capabilities of understanding and executing natural language instructions, Large language models (LLMs) can potentially act as a powerful tool for textual data augmentation. However, the quality of augmented data depends heavily on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yichuan Li , Kaize Ding , Jianling Wang , Kyumin Lee

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 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

Data augmentation serves as a popular regularization technique to combat overfitting challenges in neural networks. While automatic augmentation has demonstrated success in image classification tasks, its application to time-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Liran Nochumsohn , Omri Azencot

While the abundance of rich and vast datasets across numerous fields has facilitated the advancement of natural language processing, sectors in need of specialized data types continue to struggle with the challenge of finding quality data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Hyeonseok Kang , Hyein Seo , Jeesu Jung , Sangkeun Jung , Du-Seong Chang , Riwoo Chung

In speech deepfake detection (SDD), data augmentation (DA) is commonly used to improve model generalization across varied speech conditions and spoofing attacks. However, during training, the backpropagated gradients from original and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Duc-Tuan Truong , Tianchi Liu , Junjie Li , Ruijie Tao , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng