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The increasing size and complexity of pre-trained language models have demonstrated superior performance in many applications, but they usually require large training datasets to be adequately trained. Insufficient training sets could…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yaping Chai , Haoran Xie , Joe S. Qin

As an effective strategy, data augmentation (DA) alleviates data scarcity scenarios where deep learning techniques may fail. It is widely applied in computer vision then introduced to natural language processing and achieves improvements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Bohan Li , Yutai Hou , Wanxiang Che

Generative recommendation plays a crucial role in personalized systems, predicting users' future interactions from their historical behavior sequences. A critical yet underexplored factor in training these models is data augmentation, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Geon Lee , Bhuvesh Kumar , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Kijung Shin , Neil Shah , Liam Collins

Data augmentation, a technique in which a training set is expanded with class-preserving transformations, is ubiquitous in modern machine learning pipelines. In this paper, we seek to establish a theoretical framework for understanding data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Tri Dao , Albert Gu , Alexander J. Ratner , Virginia Smith , Christopher De Sa , Christopher Ré

Deep Learning (DL) methods have emerged as one of the most powerful tools for functional approximation and prediction. While the representation properties of DL have been well studied, uncertainty quantification remains challenging and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-25 Yuexi Wang , Nicholas G. Polson , Vadim O. Sokolov

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

Dataset Distillation (DD), a newly emerging field, aims at generating much smaller but efficient synthetic training datasets from large ones. Existing DD methods based on gradient matching achieve leading performance; however, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Lei Zhang , Jie Zhang , Bowen Lei , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Xiang Pan , Bo Zhao , Caiwen Ding , Yao Li , Dongkuan Xu

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

Sequential recommendation (SRS) has become the technical foundation in many applications recently, which aims to recommend the next item based on the user's historical interactions. However, sequential recommendation often faces the problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Qidong Liu , Fan Yan , Xiangyu Zhao , Zhaocheng Du , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Feng Tian

In order to reduce overfitting, neural networks are typically trained with data augmentation, the practice of artificially generating additional training data via label-preserving transformations of existing training examples. While these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Cecilia Summers , Michael J. Dinneen

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents often fail to generalize to unseen scenarios, even when they are trained on many instances of semantically similar environments. Data augmentation has recently been shown to improve the sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Roberta Raileanu , Max Goldstein , Denis Yarats , Ilya Kostrikov , Rob Fergus

Data augmentation (DA) has been widely investigated to facilitate model optimization in many tasks. However, in most cases, data augmentation is randomly performed for each training sample with a certain probability, which might incur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Shiqi Lin , Zhizheng Zhang , Xin Li , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen

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

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

Sequence-to-Sequence (S2S) models recently started to show state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition (ASR). With these large and deep models overfitting remains the largest problem, outweighing performance improvements…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Thai-Son Nguyen , Sebastian Stueker , Jan Niehues , Alex Waibel

Data augmentation in deep neural networks is the process of generating artificial data in order to reduce the variance of the classifier with the goal to reduce the number of errors. This idea has been shown to improve deep neural network's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Hassan Ismail Fawaz , Germain Forestier , Jonathan Weber , Lhassane Idoumghar , Pierre-Alain Muller

Compact dual-encoder models are widely used for retrieval owing to their efficiency and scalability. However, such models often underperform compared to their Large Language Model (LLM)-based retrieval counterparts, likely due to their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pranjal A. Chitale , Bishal Santra , Yashoteja Prabhu , Amit Sharma

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

In the rapidly evolving field of large language models (LLMs), data augmentation (DA) has emerged as a pivotal technique for enhancing model performance by diversifying training examples without the need for additional data collection. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Bosheng Ding , Chengwei Qin , Ruochen Zhao , Tianze Luo , Xinze Li , Guizhen Chen , Wenhan Xia , Junjie Hu , Anh Tuan Luu , Shafiq Joty

Data augmentation is widely known as a simple yet surprisingly effective technique for regularizing deep networks. Conventional data augmentation schemes, e.g., flipping, translation or rotation, are low-level, data-independent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Yulin Wang , Gao Huang , Shiji Song , Xuran Pan , Yitong Xia , Cheng Wu