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Learning from small data sets is critical in many practical applications where data collection is time consuming or expensive, e.g., robotics, animal experiments or drug design. Meta learning is one way to increase the data efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Steindór Sæmundsson , Katja Hofmann , Marc Peter Deisenroth

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

In the context of the long-tail scenario, models exhibit a strong demand for high-quality data. Data-centric approaches aim to enhance both the quantity and quality of data to improve model performance. Among these approaches, information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Yanbiao Ma , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Xu Liu , Puhua Chen

Modern commercial platforms typically offer both search and recommendation functionalities to serve diverse user needs, making joint modeling of these tasks an appealing direction. While prior work has shown that integrating search and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Xiao Zhang , Xiaoxue Zang , Kai Zheng , Yang Song , Enyun Yu

As LLM-driven autonomous agents evolve to perform complex, multi-step tasks that require integrating multiple datasets, the problem of discovering relevant data sources becomes a key bottleneck. Beyond the challenge posed by the sheer…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jiani Zhang , Sercan O. Arik , Cosmin Arad , Fatma Ozcan , Alon Halevy

Data augmentation is an essential part of the training process applied to deep learning models. The motivation is that a robust training process for deep learning models depends on large annotated datasets, which are expensive to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Toan Tran , Trung Pham , Gustavo Carneiro , Lyle Palmer , Ian Reid

Current approaches to data discovery match keywords between metadata and queries. This matching requires researchers to know the exact wording that other researchers previously used, creating a challenging process that could lead to missing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Maura E Halstead , Mark A. Green , Caroline Jay , Richard Kingston , David Topping , Alexander Singleton

Causal inference is essential for developing and evaluating medical interventions, yet real-world medical datasets are often difficult to access due to regulatory barriers. This makes synthetic data a potentially valuable asset that enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Harry Amad , Zhaozhi Qian , Dennis Frauen , Julianna Piskorz , Stefan Feuerriegel , Mihaela van der Schaar

Data augmentation is a series of techniques that generate high-quality artificial data by manipulating existing data samples. By leveraging data augmentation techniques, AI models can achieve significantly improved applicability in tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zaitian Wang , Pengfei Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Pengyang Wang , Yanjie Fu , Chang-Tien Lu , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jian Pei , Yuanchun Zhou

High-quality datasets are typically required for accomplishing data-driven tasks, such as training medical diagnosis models, predicting real-time traffic conditions, or conducting experiments to validate research hypotheses. Consequently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pengyue Li , Sheng Wang , Hua Dai , Zhiyu Chen , Zhifeng Bao , Brian D. Davison

Every data selection method inherently has a target. In practice, these targets often emerge implicitly through benchmark-driven iteration: researchers develop selection strategies, train models, measure benchmark performance, then refine…

Humans can continuously learn new knowledge as their experience grows. In contrast, previous learning in deep neural networks can quickly fade out when they are trained on a new task. In this paper, we hypothesize this problem can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Object search in large-scale, unstructured environments remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, particularly in dynamic or expansive settings such as outdoor autonomous exploration. This task requires robust spatial reasoning and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Lanxiang Zheng , Ruidong Mei , Mingxin Wei , Hao Ren , Hui Cheng

Training models to high-end performance requires availability of large labeled datasets, which are expensive to get. The goal of our work is to automatically synthesize labeled datasets that are relevant for a downstream task. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Amlan Kar , Aayush Prakash , Ming-Yu Liu , Eric Cameracci , Justin Yuan , Matt Rusiniak , David Acuna , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Efficient data exploration is crucial as data becomes increasingly important for accelerating processes, improving forecasts and developing new business models. Data consumers often spend 25-98 % of their time searching for suitable data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Lennart Busch , Daniel Tebernum , Gissel Velarde

Meta-learning algorithms aim to learn two components: a model that predicts targets for a task, and a base learner that quickly updates that model when given examples from a new task. This additional level of learning can be powerful, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Janarthanan Rajendran , Alex Irpan , Eric Jang

Recent work has shown that data augmentation has the potential to significantly improve the generalization of deep learning models. Recently, automated augmentation strategies have led to state-of-the-art results in image classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Ekin D. Cubuk , Barret Zoph , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le

Data-centric AI focuses on understanding and utilizing high-quality, relevant data in training machine learning (ML) models, thereby increasing the likelihood of producing accurate and useful results. Automatic feature augmentation, aiming…

Successful negotiators must learn how to balance optimizing for self-interest and cooperation. Yet current artificial negotiation agents often heavily depend on the quality of the static datasets they were trained on, limiting their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Minae Kwon , Siddharth Karamcheti , Mariano-Florentino Cuellar , Dorsa Sadigh

The rapid expansion of Earth Science data from satellite observations, reanalysis products, and numerical simulations has created a critical bottleneck in scientific discovery, namely identifying relevant datasets for a given research…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Youran Sun , Yixin Wen , Haizhao Yang