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Data augmentation aims to enrich training samples for alleviating the overfitting issue in low-resource or class-imbalanced situations. Traditional methods first devise task-specific operations such as Synonym Substitute, then preset the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shuhuai Ren , Jinchao Zhang , Lei Li , Xu Sun , Jie Zhou

Data augmentation is an essential technique in natural language processing (NLP) for enriching training datasets by generating diverse samples. This process is crucial for improving the robustness and generalization capabilities of NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zaitian Wang , Jinghan Zhang , Xinhao Zhang , Kunpeng Liu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

In this work we investigate the impact of applying textual data augmentation tasks to low resource machine translation. There has been recent interest in investigating approaches for training systems for languages with limited resources and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Catherine Gitau , VUkosi Marivate

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT), data augmentation methods such as back-translation have proven their effectiveness in improving translation performance. In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation approach for NMT, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Chang Jin , Shigui Qiu , Nini Xiao , Hao Jia

Generating high-quality and interpretable adversarial examples in the text domain is a much more daunting task than it is in the image domain. This is due partly to the discrete nature of text, partly to the problem of ensuring that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Samuel Barham , Soheil Feizi

Handwritten text and scene text suffer from various shapes and distorted patterns. Thus training a robust recognition model requires a large amount of data to cover diversity as much as possible. In contrast to data collection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Canjie Luo , Yuanzhi Zhu , Lianwen Jin , Yongpan Wang

Despite large successes of recent language models on diverse tasks, they suffer from severe performance degeneration in low-resource settings with limited training data available. Many existing works tackle this problem by generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Minju Seo , Jinheon Baek , James Thorne , Sung Ju Hwang

Data augmentation techniques are widely used for enhancing the performance of machine learning models by tackling class imbalance issues and data sparsity. State-of-the-art generative language models have been shown to provide significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Aleksandra Edwards , Asahi Ushio , Jose Camacho-Collados , Hélène de Ribaupierre , Alun Preece

Data augmentation is a critical contributing factor to the success of deep learning but heavily relies on prior domain knowledge which is not always available. Recent works on automatic data augmentation learn a policy to form a sequence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Kaiwen Yang , Yanchao Sun , Jiahao Su , Fengxiang He , Xinmei Tian , Furong Huang , Tianyi Zhou , Dacheng Tao

Speech is easily leaked imperceptibly, such as being recorded by mobile phones in different situations. Private content in speech may be maliciously extracted through speech enhancement technology. Speech enhancement technology has…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Mingyu Dong , Diqun Yan , Rangding Wang

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

Math Word Problem (MWP) solving presents a challenging task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This study aims to provide MWP solvers with a more diverse training set, ultimately improving their ability to solve various math problems. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Gulsum Yigit , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali

Deep learning-based construction-site image analysis has recently made great progress with regard to accuracy and speed, but it requires a large amount of data. Acquiring sufficient amount of labeled construction-image data is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Francis Baek , Somin Park , Hyoungkwan Kim

Data augmentation, the artificial creation of training data for machine learning by transformations, is a widely studied research field across machine learning disciplines. While it is useful for increasing a model's generalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Markus Bayer , Marc-André Kaufhold , Christian Reuter

Data augmentation is one of the most prevalent tools in deep learning, underpinning many recent advances, including those from classification, generative models, and representation learning. The standard approach to data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Brandon Trabucco , Kyle Doherty , Max Gurinas , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Data augmentation techniques have been proven useful in many applications in NLP fields. Most augmentations are task-specific, and cannot be used as a general-purpose tool. In our work, we present AugCSE, a unified framework to utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zilu Tang , Muhammed Yusuf Kocyigit , Derry Wijaya

Sentiment analysis is a task that may suffer from a lack of data in certain cases, as the datasets are often generated and annotated by humans. In cases where data is inadequate for training discriminative models, generate models may aid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Rahul Gupta

We propose a conceptually simple and lightweight framework for improving the robustness of vision models through the combination of knowledge distillation and data augmentation. We address the conjecture that larger models do not make for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Andy Zhou , Jindong Wang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Haohan Wang

Discrete adversarial attacks are symbolic perturbations to a language input that preserve the output label but lead to a prediction error. While such attacks have been extensively explored for the purpose of evaluating model robustness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Maor Ivgi , Jonathan Berant

Text classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples -- correctly-classified examples that are deliberately transformed to be misclassified while satisfying acceptability constraints. The conventional approach to finding adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tom Roth , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Alsharif Abuadbba , Massimo Piccardi