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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

Data augmentation (DA) has gained widespread popularity in deep speaker models due to its ease of implementation and significant effectiveness. It enriches training data by simulating real-life acoustic variations, enabling deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhenyu Zhou , Junhui Chen , Namin Wang , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

The goal of relation classification (RC) is to extract the semantic relations between/among entities in the text. As a fundamental task in natural language processing, it is crucial to ensure the robustness of RC models. Despite the high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Mi Zhang , Tieyun Qian , Ting Zhang

Crowdsourcing provides an efficient label collection schema for supervised machine learning. However, to control annotation cost, each instance in the crowdsourced data is typically annotated by a small number of annotators. This creates a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Zhendong Chu , Hongning Wang

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

Abstractive summarization systems based on pretrained language models often generate coherent but factually inconsistent sentences. In this paper, we present a counterfactual data augmentation approach where we augment data with perturbed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Dheeraj Rajagopal , Siamak Shakeri , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Eduard Hovy , Chung-Ching Chang

The generalization capability of deepfake detectors is critical for real-world use. Data augmentation via synthetic fake face generation effectively enhances generalization, yet current SoTA methods rely on fixed strategies-raising a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuxuan Zhou , Tao Yu , Wen Huang , Yuheng Zhang , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia

Counterfactual examples are widely employed to enhance the performance and robustness of large language models (LLMs) through counterfactual data augmentation (CDA). However, the selection of the judge model used to evaluate label flipping,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Qianli Wang , Van Bach Nguyen , Nils Feldhus , Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas , Christin Seifert , Sebastian Möller , Vera Schmitt

Contrastive learning has recently achieved compelling performance in unsupervised sentence representation. As an essential element, data augmentation protocols, however, have not been well explored. The pioneering work SimCSE resorting to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Dongsheng Zhu , Zhenyu Mao , Jinghui Lu , Rui Zhao , Fei Tan

While pretrained language models achieve excellent performance on natural language understanding benchmarks, they tend to rely on spurious correlations and generalize poorly to out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Recent work has explored using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Nitish Joshi , He He

We study counterfactual classification as a new tool for decision-making under hypothetical (contrary to fact) scenarios. We propose a doubly-robust nonparametric estimator for a general counterfactual classifier, where we can incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Kwangho Kim , Edward H. Kennedy , José R. Zubizarreta

Neural Image Classifiers are effective but inherently hard to interpret and susceptible to adversarial attacks. Solutions to both problems exist, among others, in the form of counterfactual examples generation to enhance explainability or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Rafael Bischof , Florian Scheidegger , Michael A. Kraus , A. Cristiano I. Malossi

In various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) often leads to the issue of spurious correlations, which negatively impacts performance, particularly when dealing with out-of-distribution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Suyoung Bae , Hyojun Kim , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

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

Counterfactual explanations describe how to modify a feature vector in order to flip the outcome of a trained classifier. Obtaining robust counterfactual explanations is essential to provide valid algorithmic recourse and meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Alexandre Forel , Axel Parmentier , Thibaut Vidal

Deep learning has revolutionized the performance of classification, but meanwhile demands sufficient labeled data for training. Given insufficient data, while many techniques have been developed to help combat overfitting, the challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Xiaofeng Zhang , Zhangyang Wang , Dong Liu , Qing Ling

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) provides a strategy for improving machine learning performance in data-rich (target) domains where ground truth labels are inaccessible but can be found in related (source) domains. In cases where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Garrett Wilson , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Diane J. Cook

The need for interpretability in deep learning has driven interest in counterfactual explanations, which identify minimal changes to an instance that change a model's prediction. Current counterfactual (CF) generation methods require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Van Bach Nguyen , Christin Seifert , Jörg Schlötterer

One critical issue of zero anaphora resolution (ZAR) is the scarcity of labeled data. This study explores how effectively this problem can be alleviated by data augmentation. We adopt a state-of-the-art data augmentation method, called the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Ryuto Konno , Yuichiroh Matsubayashi , Shun Kiyono , Hiroki Ouchi , Ryo Takahashi , Kentaro Inui

The construction of open-domain dialogue systems requires high-quality dialogue datasets. The dialogue data admits a wide variety of responses for a given dialogue history, especially responses with different semantics. However, collecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiao Ou , Jinchao Zhang , Yang Feng , Jie Zhou