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Data augmentation is a cornerstone of the machine learning pipeline, yet its theoretical underpinnings remain unclear. Is it merely a way to artificially augment the data set size? Or is it about encouraging the model to satisfy certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Ruoqi Shen , Sébastien Bubeck , Suriya Gunasekar

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS), which aims to train segmentation models solely using image-level labels, has achieved significant attention. Existing methods primarily focus on generating high-quality pseudo labels using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Wangyu Wu , Tianhong Dai , Xiaowei Huang , Fei Ma , Jimin Xiao

Deep learning techniques involving image processing and data analysis are constantly evolving. Many domains adapt these techniques for object segmentation, instantiation and classification. Recently, agricultural industries adopted those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Dmitry Kuznichov , Alon Zvirin , Yaron Honen , Ron Kimmel

Data augmentation methods have played an important role in the recent advance of deep learning models, and have become an indispensable component of state-of-the-art models in semi-supervised, self-supervised, and supervised training for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Emirhan Kurtulus , Zichao Li , Yann Dauphin , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Neural networks are prone to overfitting and memorizing data patterns. To avoid over-fitting and enhance their generalization and performance, various methods have been suggested in the literature, including dropout, regularization, label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Humza Naveed , Saeed Anwar , Munawar Hayat , Kashif Javed , Ajmal Mian

Neural networks have become increasingly popular in the last few years as an effective tool for the task of image classification due to the impressive performance they have achieved on this task. In image classification tasks, it is common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lucas M. Dorneles , Luan Fonseca Garcia , Joel Luís Carbonera

Data augmentation is widely used in vision to introduce variation and mitigate overfitting, by enabling models to learn invariant properties. However, augmentation only indirectly captures these properties and does not explicitly constrain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Andy Dimnaku , Abdullah Yusuf Kavranoglu , Yaser Abu-Mostafa

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 widely used trick when training deep neural networks: in addition to the original data, properly transformed data are also added to the training set. However, to the best of our knowledge, a clear mathematical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-10 Shuxiao Chen , Edgar Dobriban , Jane H Lee

Neural networks are prone to learn easy solutions from superficial statistics in the data, namely shortcut learning, which impairs generalization and robustness of models. We propose a data augmentation strategy, named DFM-X, that leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shunxin Wang , Christoph Brune , Raymond Veldhuis , Nicola Strisciuglio

Acquiring high-quality data for training discriminative models is a crucial yet challenging aspect of building effective predictive systems. In this paper, we present Diffusion Inversion, a simple yet effective method that leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yongchao Zhou , Hshmat Sahak , Jimmy Ba

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

Recent advances in generative deep learning have enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic images in text-to-image generation. Prior work shows that fine-tuning a pretrained diffusion model on ImageNet and generating synthetic training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhuoran Yu , Chenchen Zhu , Sean Culatana , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Fanyi Xiao , Yong Jae Lee

With the latest advances in Deep Learning-based generative models, it has not taken long to take advantage of their remarkable performance in the area of time series. Deep neural networks used to work with time series heavily depend on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Guillermo Iglesias , Edgar Talavera , Ángel González-Prieto , Alberto Mozo , Sandra Gómez-Canaval

Data augmentation is one of the most important tools in training modern deep neural networks. Recently, great advances have been made in searching for optimal augmentation policies in the image classification domain. However, two key points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Zhiqiang Tang , Yunhe Gao , Leonid Karlinsky , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rogerio Feris , Dimitris Metaxas

Data augmentation is a widely used technique for enhancing the generalization ability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in image classification tasks. Occlusion is a critical factor that affects on the generalization ability of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Suorong Yang , Jinqiao Li , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality samples, their latent variables typically lack semantic meaning and are not suitable for representation learning. Here, we propose InfoDiffusion, an algorithm that augments diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yingheng Wang , Yair Schiff , Aaron Gokaslan , Weishen Pan , Fei Wang , Christopher De Sa , Volodymyr Kuleshov

In many classification problems, we want a classifier that is robust to a range of non-semantic transformations. For example, a human can identify a dog in a picture regardless of the orientation and pose in which it appears. There is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Scott Mahan , Tim Doster , Henry Kvinge

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

Data Augmentation (DA) is frequently used to provide additional training data without extra human annotation automatically. However, data augmentation may introduce noisy data that impairs training. To guarantee the quality of augmented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Tianqing Fang , Wenxuan Zhou , Fangyu Liu , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Muhao Chen