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Currently, there is a significant amount of research being conducted in the field of artificial intelligence to improve the explainability and interpretability of deep learning models. It is found that if end-users understand the reason for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Niloofar Ranjbar , Saeedeh Momtazi , MohammadMehdi Homayounpour

Contrastive pretraining is well-known to improve downstream task performance and model generalisation, especially in limited label settings. However, it is sensitive to the choice of augmentation pipeline. Positive pairs should preserve…

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Data augmentation is essential to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many deep learning applications. However, the most effective augmentation techniques become computationally prohibitive for even medium-sized datasets. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tian Yu Liu , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

In attempts to produce ML models less reliant on spurious patterns in NLP datasets, researchers have recently proposed curating counterfactually augmented data (CAD) via a human-in-the-loop process in which given some documents and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Divyansh Kaushik , Amrith Setlur , Eduard Hovy , Zachary C. Lipton

Active Learning (AL) allows models to learn interactively from user feedback. This paper introduces a counterfactual data augmentation approach to AL, particularly addressing the selection of datapoints for user querying, a pivotal concern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Simret Araya Gebreegziabher , Kuangshi Ai , Zheng Zhang , Elena L. Glassman , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Solving image classification tasks given small training datasets remains an open challenge for modern computer vision. Aggressive data augmentation and generative models are among the most straightforward approaches to overcoming the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Lorenzo Brigato , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Deep Active Learning (DAL) aims to reduce labeling costs in neural-network training by prioritizing the most informative unlabeled samples for annotation. Beyond selecting which samples to label, several DAL approaches further enhance data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jonathan Spiegelman , Guy Amir , Guy Katz

Information on the number and category of cervical cells is crucial for the diagnosis of cervical cancer. However, existing classification methods capable of automatically measuring this information require the training dataset to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yuanlin Liu , Zhihan Zhou , Mingqiang Wei , Youyi Song

Data augmentation (DA) is a crucial technique for enhancing the sample efficiency of visual reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Notably, employing simple observation transformations alone can yield outstanding performance without extra…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Guozheng Ma , Linrui Zhang , Haoyu Wang , Lu Li , Zilin Wang , Zhen Wang , Li Shen , Xueqian Wang , Dacheng Tao

Efficient data annotation remains a critical challenge in machine learning, particularly for object detection tasks requiring extensive labeled data. Active learning (AL) has emerged as a promising solution to minimize annotation costs by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Somraj Gautam , Nachiketa Purohit , Gaurav Harit

Counterfactual explanation methods have recently received significant attention for explaining CNN-based image classifiers due to their ability to provide easily understandable explanations that align more closely with human reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Syed Ali Tariq , Tehseen Zia

In this paper, we revisited the role of data augmentation in contrastive learning for sequential recommendation, revealing its inherent bias against low-frequency items and sparse user behaviors. To address this limitation, we proposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhikai Wang , Weihua Zhang

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

Contrastive Learning (CL) performances as a rising approach to address the challenge of sparse and noisy recommendation data. Although having achieved promising results, most existing CL methods only perform either hand-crafted data or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor Sheng

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown unprecedented success in the field of computer vision, especially on challenging image classification tasks by relying on a universal approach, i.e., training a deep model on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Johan Phan , Massimiliano Ruocco , Francesco Scibilia

Contextual ranking models have delivered impressive performance improvements over classical models in the document ranking task. However, these highly over-parameterized models tend to be data-hungry and require large amounts of data even…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Abhijit Anand , Jurek Leonhardt , Jaspreet Singh , Koustav Rudra , Avishek Anand

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

Detecting anomalies in tabular data is critical for many real-world applications, such as credit card fraud detection. With the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs), state-of-the-art performance in tabular anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruiqi Wang , Ruikang Liu , Runyu Chen , Haoxiang Suo , Zhiyi Peng , Zhuo Tang , Changjian Chen

Contrastive learning is an effective unsupervised method in graph representation learning. Recently, the data augmentation based contrastive learning method has been extended from images to graphs. However, most prior works are directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shengyu Feng , Baoyu Jing , Yada Zhu , Hanghang Tong

Active learning aims to develop label-efficient algorithms by querying the most informative samples to be labeled by an oracle. The design of efficient training methods that require fewer labels is an important research direction that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Ali Mottaghi , Serena Yeung