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Mixup is a data augmentation technique that creates new examples as convex combinations of training points and labels. This simple technique has empirically shown to improve the accuracy of many state-of-the-art models in different settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Luigi Carratino , Moustapha Cissé , Rodolphe Jenatton , Jean-Philippe Vert

A problem with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is that they require large datasets to obtain adequate robustness; on small datasets, they are prone to overfitting. Many methods have been proposed to overcome this shortcoming with CNNs.…

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Residual networks (ResNets) represent a powerful type of convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, widely adopted and used in various tasks. In this work we propose an improved version of ResNets. Our proposed improvements address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Ionut Cosmin Duta , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Ling Shao

MixUp is a computer vision data augmentation technique that uses convex interpolations of input data and their labels to enhance model generalization during training. However, the application of MixUp to the natural language understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Wancong Zhang , Ieshan Vaidya

Recently, many deep networks have introduced hypercomplex and related calculations into their architectures. In regard to convolutional networks for classification, these enhancements have been applied to the convolution operations in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Nazmul Shahadat , Anthony S. Maida

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

In recent years, mixup regularization has gained popularity as an effective way to improve the generalization performance of deep learning models by training on convex combinations of training data. While many mixup variants have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yousef El-Laham , Niccolò Dalmasso , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Vamsi K. Potluru , Manuela Veloso

This paper revives Densely Connected Convolutional Networks (DenseNets) and reveals the underrated effectiveness over predominant ResNet-style architectures. We believe DenseNets' potential was overlooked due to untouched training methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Donghyun Kim , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han

Obtaining object response maps is one important step to achieve weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using image-level labels. However, existing methods rely on the classification task, which could result in a response map only attending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Deep residual networks (ResNets) and their variants are widely used in many computer vision applications and natural language processing tasks. However, the theoretical principles for designing and training ResNets are still not fully…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-05 Bo Chang , Lili Meng , Eldad Haber , Frederick Tung , David Begert

We describe a new class of subsampling techniques for CNNs, termed multisampling, that significantly increases the amount of information kept by feature maps through subsampling layers. One version of our method, which we call checkered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shayan Sadigh , Pradeep Sen

ResNets and its variants play an important role in various fields of image recognition. This paper gives another variant of ResNets, a kind of cross-residual learning networks called C-ResNets, which has less computation and parameters than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Jun Liang , Songsen Yu , Huan Yang

Mixup is a popular regularization technique for training deep neural networks that improves generalization and increases robustness to certain distribution shifts. It perturbs input training data in the direction of other randomly-chosen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Kristjan Greenewald , Anming Gu , Mikhail Yurochkin , Justin Solomon , Edward Chien

Data augmentation techniques play an important role in enhancing the performance of deep learning models. Despite their proven benefits in computer vision tasks, their application in the other domains remains limited. This paper proposes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yousef El-Laham , Elizabeth Fons , Dillon Daudert , Svitlana Vyetrenko

Large deep networks have demonstrated competitive performance in single image super-resolution (SISR), with a huge volume of data involved. However, in real-world scenarios, due to the limited accessible training pairs, large models exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ruicheng Feng , Jinjin Gu , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Mixup - a neural network regularization technique based on linear interpolation of labeled sample pairs - has stood out by its capacity to improve model's robustness and generalizability through a surprisingly simple formalism. However, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Shahine Bouabid , Vincent Delaitre

The influential Residual Networks designed by He et al. remain the gold-standard architecture in numerous scientific publications. They typically serve as the default architecture in studies, or as baselines when new architectures are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Ross Wightman , Hugo Touvron , Hervé Jégou

Residual Neural Networks (ResNets) achieve state-of-the-art performance in many computer vision problems. Compared to plain networks without residual connections (PlnNets), ResNets train faster, generalize better, and suffer less from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Shuzhi Yu , Carlo Tomasi

Mixup is a popular data augmentation technique based on taking convex combinations of pairs of examples and their labels. This simple technique has been shown to substantially improve both the robustness and the generalization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Linjun Zhang , Zhun Deng , Kenji Kawaguchi , Amirata Ghorbani , James Zou

Mixup is a data augmentation technique that relies on training using random convex combinations of data points and their labels. In recent years, Mixup has become a standard primitive used in the training of state-of-the-art image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Muthu Chidambaram , Xiang Wang , Chenwei Wu , Rong Ge