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Soft augmentation regularizes the supervised learning process of image classifiers by reducing label confidence of a training sample based on the magnitude of random-crop augmentation applied to it. This paper extends this adaptive label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Georg Siedel , Ekagra Gupta , Weijia Shao , Silvia Vock , Andrey Morozov

Regularization has long been utilized to learn sparsity in deep neural network pruning. However, its role is mainly explored in the small penalty strength regime. In this work, we extend its application to a new scenario where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Huan Wang , Can Qin , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu

Several applications of Reinforcement Learning suffer from instability due to high variance. This is especially prevalent in high dimensional domains. Regularization is a commonly used technique in machine learning to reduce variance, at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Pierre Thodoroff , Audrey Durand , Joelle Pineau , Doina Precup

Random smoothing data augmentation is a unique form of regularization that can prevent overfitting by introducing noise to the input data, encouraging the model to learn more generalized features. Despite its success in various…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-15 Liang Ding , Tianyang Hu , Jiahang Jiang , Donghao Li , Wenjia Wang , Yuan Yao

A data augmentation module is utilized in contrastive learning to transform the given data example into two views, which is considered essential and irreplaceable. However, the predetermined composition of multiple data augmentations brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Junbo Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

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

Adversarial training has been successfully applied to build robust models at a certain cost. While the robustness of a model increases, the standard classification accuracy declines. This phenomenon is suggested to be an inherent trade-off.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Chihuang Liu , Joseph JaJa

Modern neural networks are over-parameterized and thus rely on strong regularization such as data augmentation and weight decay to reduce overfitting and improve generalization. The dominant form of data augmentation applies invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yang Liu , Shen Yan , Laura Leal-Taixé , James Hays , Deva Ramanan

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

Data augmentation plays a pivotal role in enhancing and diversifying training data. Nonetheless, consistently improving model performance in varied learning scenarios, especially those with inherent data biases, remains challenging. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiaoling Zhou , Wei Ye , Zhemg Lee , Rui Xie , Shikun Zhang

The paper proposes a novel regularization procedure for machine learning. The proposed high-order regularization (HR) provides new insight into regularization, which is widely used to train a neural network that can be utilized to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xinghua Liu , Ming Cao

Data augmentation is popular in the training of large neural networks; currently, however, there is no clear theoretical comparison between different algorithmic choices on how to use augmented data. In this paper, we take a step in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Shuo Yang , Yijun Dong , Rachel Ward , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Sujay Sanghavi , Qi Lei

World models have recently emerged as a promising approach to reinforcement learning (RL), achieving state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of visual control tasks. This work aims to obtain a deep understanding of the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Qiaoyi Fang , Weiyu Du , Hang Wang , Junshan Zhang

We propose a new \emph{Transformed Risk Minimization} (TRM) framework as an extension of classical risk minimization. In TRM, we optimize not only over predictive models, but also over data transformations; specifically over distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Evangelos Chatzipantazis , Stefanos Pertigkiozoglou , Kostas Daniilidis , Edgar Dobriban

There is growing body of learning problems for which it is natural to organize the parameters into matrix, so as to appropriately regularize the parameters under some matrix norm (in order to impose some more sophisticated prior knowledge).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Sham M. Kakade , Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ambuj Tewari

Unsupervised representation learning methods are widely used for gaining insight into high-dimensional, unstructured, or structured data. In some cases, users may have prior topological knowledge about the data, such as a known cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Edith Heiter , Robin Vandaele , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys , Jefrey Lijffijt

In many machine learning problems the output should not depend on the order of the input. Such "permutation invariant" functions have been studied extensively recently. Here we argue that temporal architectures such as RNNs are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Edo Cohen-Karlik , Avichai Ben David , Amir Globerson

Data augmentation is a powerful technique to improve performance in applications such as image and text classification tasks. Yet, there is little rigorous understanding of why and how various augmentations work. In this work, we consider a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sen Wu , Hongyang R. Zhang , Gregory Valiant , Christopher Ré

Data augmentation is a commonly applied technique with two seemingly related advantages. With this method one can increase the size of the training set generating new samples and also increase the invariance of the network against the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jalal Al-afandi , Bálint Magyar , András Horváth

Text-to-image diffusion models are a class of deep generative models that have demonstrated an impressive capacity for high-quality image generation. However, these models are susceptible to implicit biases that arise from web-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yinan Zhang , Eric Tzeng , Yilun Du , Dmitry Kislyuk