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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,…

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Several studies indicate that deep learning models can learn to detect breast cancer from mammograms (X-ray images of the breasts). However, challenges with overfitting and poor generalisability prevent their routine use in the clinic.…

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In this paper, we study the generalization properties of neural networks under input perturbations and show that minimal training data corruption by a few pixel modifications can cause drastic overfitting. We propose an evolutionary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Subhajit Chaudhury , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Predictive models that generalize well under distributional shift are often desirable and sometimes crucial to building robust and reliable machine learning applications. We focus on distributional shift that arises in causal inference from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 Fredrik D. Johansson , Nathan Kallus , Uri Shalit , David Sontag

Computer vision research has long aimed to build systems that are robust to spatial transformations found in natural data. Traditionally, this is done using data augmentation or hard-coding invariances into the architecture. However, too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Utkarsh Singhal , Carlos Esteves , Ameesh Makadia , Stella X. Yu

Distribution shifts are characterized by differences between the training and test data distributions. They can significantly reduce the accuracy of machine learning models deployed in real-world scenarios. This paper explores the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nam Cao , Olga Saukh

The accuracy of mapping agricultural fields across large areas is steadily improving with high-resolution satellite imagery and deep learning (DL) models, even in regions where fields are small and geometrically irregular. However,…

We introduce style augmentation, a new form of data augmentation based on random style transfer, for improving the robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNN) over both classification and regression based tasks. During training, our…

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Data augmentation is a commonly used technique for increasing both the size and the diversity of labeled training sets by leveraging input transformations that preserve output labels. In computer vision domain, image augmentations have…

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Systems that perform image manipulation using deep convolutional networks have achieved remarkable realism. Perceptual losses and losses based on adversarial discriminators are the two main classes of learning objectives behind these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Diana Sungatullina , Egor Zakharov , Dmitry Ulyanov , Victor Lempitsky

Adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting, a phenomenon where the robust test accuracy starts to decrease during training. In this paper, we focus on reducing robust overfitting by using common data augmentation schemes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sven Gowal , Dan A. Calian , Florian Stimberg , Olivia Wiles , Timothy Mann

Exploiting symmetry in dynamical systems is a powerful way to improve the generalization of deep learning. The model learns to be invariant to transformation and hence is more robust to distribution shift. Data augmentation and equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

Transformers have been recently adapted for large scale image classification, achieving high scores shaking up the long supremacy of convolutional neural networks. However the optimization of image transformers has been little studied so…

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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

In this paper, we present augmentation inside the network, a method that simulates data augmentation techniques for computer vision problems on intermediate features of a convolutional neural network. We perform these transformations,…

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Deep neural networks often make decisions based on the spurious correlations inherent in the dataset, failing to generalize in an unbiased data distribution. Although previous approaches pre-define the type of dataset bias to prevent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Eungyeup Kim , Jihyeon Lee , Jaegul Choo

Data augmentation is one of the most effective techniques to improve the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Yet, despite often facing limited data availability in medical image analysis, it is frequently underutilized. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Adam Tupper , Christian Gagné

Ensuring proper generalization is a critical challenge in applying data-driven methods for solving inverse problems in imaging, as neural networks reconstructing an image must perform well across varied datasets and acquisition geometries.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Emilien Valat , Ozan Öktem

Automated data augmentation has shown superior performance in image recognition. Existing works search for dataset-level augmentation policies without considering individual sample variations, which are likely to be sub-optimal. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Fengwei Zhou , Jiawei Li , Chuanlong Xie , Fei Chen , Lanqing Hong , Rui Sun , Zhenguo Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely assumed to be translation-invariant, yet standard architectures exhibit a startling fragility: even a single-pixel shift can drastically degrade performance due to their reliance on spatially…

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