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A recurrent issue in deep learning is the scarcity of data, in particular precisely annotated data. Few publicly available databases are correctly annotated and generating correct labels is very time consuming. The present article…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Celine Jacques , Axel Roebel

Most previous methods for text data augmentation are limited to simple tasks and weak baselines. We explore data augmentation on hard tasks (i.e., few-shot natural language understanding) and strong baselines (i.e., pretrained models with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jing Zhou , Yanan Zheng , Jie Tang , Jian Li , Zhilin Yang

Data augmentation is an effective way to improve the performance of many neural text generation models. However, current data augmentation methods need to define or choose proper data mapping functions that map the original samples into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Wei Bi , Huayang Li , Jiacheng Huang

Speech enhancement using neural networks is recently receiving large attention in research and being integrated in commercial devices and applications. In this work, we investigate data augmentation techniques for supervised deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Sebastian Braun , Ivan Tashev

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with limited data poses a practical challenge in low-resource languages, specialized domains, and constrained deployment settings. While pre-trained LLMs provide strong foundations, effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Marton Szep , Daniel Rueckert , Rüdiger von Eisenhart-Rothe , Florian Hinterwimmer

Data augmentation is commonly used to encode invariances in learning methods. However, this process is often performed in an inefficient manner, as artificial examples are created by applying a number of transformations to all points in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Michael Kuchnik , Virginia Smith

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful post-training paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, reinforcement learning for LLMs faces substantial data scarcity challenges,…

The quality of a Neural Machine Translation system depends substantially on the availability of sizable parallel corpora. For low-resource language pairs this is not the case, resulting in poor translation quality. Inspired by work in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Marzieh Fadaee , Arianna Bisazza , Christof Monz

Label noise is common in large real-world datasets, and its presence harms the training process of deep neural networks. Although several works have focused on the training strategies to address this problem, there are few studies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Emeson Santana , Gustavo Carneiro , Filipe R. Cordeiro

Deep learning (DL) techniques are highly effective for defect detection from images. Training DL classification models, however, requires vast amounts of labeled data which is often expensive to collect. In many cases, not only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Adrian Shuai Li , Elisa Bertino , Rih-Teng Wu , Ting-Yan Wu

Data augmentation is a ubiquitous technique for increasing the size of labeled training sets by leveraging task-specific data transformations that preserve class labels. While it is often easy for domain experts to specify individual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Alexander J. Ratner , Henry R. Ehrenberg , Zeshan Hussain , Jared Dunnmon , Christopher Ré

Neural NLP systems achieve high scores in the presence of sizable training dataset. Lack of such datasets leads to poor system performances in the case low-resource languages. We present two simple text augmentation techniques using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Gözde Gül Şahin , Mark Steedman

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

While data augmentation is an important trick to boost the accuracy of deep learning methods in computer vision tasks, its study in natural language tasks is still very limited. In this paper, we present a novel data augmentation method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Jinhua Zhu , Fei Gao , Lijun Wu , Yingce Xia , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Xueqi Cheng , Tie-Yan Liu

This work investigates the impact of data augmentation on confidence calibration and uncertainty estimation in Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks. For the future advance of NER in safety-critical fields like healthcare and finance, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Wataru Hashimoto , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

A continued issue for those working with computational tools and endangered and under-resourced languages is the lower accuracy of results for languages with smaller amounts of data. We attempt to ameliorate this issue by using data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Alessio Tosolini , Claire Bowern

Multi-label learning deals with the problem that each instance is associated with multiple labels simultaneously. Most of the existing approaches aim to improve the performance of multi-label learning by exploiting label correlations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Senlin Shu , Fengmao Lv , Yan Yan , Li Li , Shuo He , Jun He

Text data augmentation is a complex problem due to the discrete nature of sentences. Although rule-based augmentation methods are widely adopted in real-world applications because of their simplicity, they suffer from potential semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Juhwan Choi , Kyohoon Jin , Junho Lee , Sangmin Song , Youngbin Kim

Deep Learning models are incredibly data-hungry and require very large labeled datasets for supervised learning. As a consequence, these models often suffer from overfitting, limiting their ability to generalize to real-world examples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sahiti Yerramilli , Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli , Tanmay Girish Kulkarni , Jonathan Francis , Eric Nyberg

Data augmentation is widely used for machine learning; however, an effective method to apply data augmentation has not been established even though it includes several factors that should be tuned carefully. One such factor is sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Tomoumi Takase , Ryo Karakida , Hideki Asoh