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Data augmentation (DA) turns seemingly intractable computational problems into simple ones by augmenting latent missing data. In addition to computational simplicity, it is now well-established that DA equipped with a deterministic…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-26 Hyungsuk Tak , Kisung You , Sujit K. Ghosh , Bingyue Su , Joseph Kelly

In the context of neural machine translation, data augmentation (DA) techniques may be used for generating additional training samples when the available parallel data are scarce. Many DA approaches aim at expanding the support of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena , Miquel Esplà-Gomis , Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz , Felipe Sánchez-Martínez

The high costs of annotating large datasets suggests a need for effectively training CNNs with limited data, and data augmentation is a promising direction. We study foundational augmentation techniques, including Mixed Sample Data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Swarna Kamlam Ravindran , Carlo Tomasi

Data augmentation (DA) enhances model generalization in computer vision but may introduce biases, impacting class accuracy unevenly. Our study extends this inquiry, examining DA's class-specific bias across various datasets, including those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Athanasios Angelakis , Andrey Rass

Extensive efforts have been made to improve the generalization ability of Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods via domain randomization and data augmentation. However, as more factors of variation are introduced during training, optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Nicklas Hansen , Xiaolong Wang

Synthetically augmenting training datasets with diffusion models has become an effective strategy for improving the generalization of image classifiers. However, existing approaches typically increase dataset size by 10-30x and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dang Nguyen , Jiping Li , Jinghao Zheng , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

In recent years, language models (LMs) have made remarkable progress in advancing the field of natural language processing (NLP). However, the impact of data augmentation (DA) techniques on the fine-tuning (FT) performance of these LMs has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Zhengxiang Shi , Aldo Lipani

Data augmentation (DA) is commonly used during model training, as it significantly improves test error and model robustness. DA artificially expands the training set by applying random noise, rotations, crops, or even adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Shashank Rajput , Zhili Feng , Zachary Charles , Po-Ling Loh , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Various data augmentation techniques have been recently proposed in image-based deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Although they empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of data augmentation for improving sample efficiency or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jianshu Hu , Yunpeng Jiang , Paul Weng

Deep learning (DL) models have gained prominence in domains such as computer vision and natural language processing but remain underutilized for regression tasks involving tabular data. In these cases, traditional machine learning (ML)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Assaf Shmuel , Oren Glickman , Teddy Lazebnik

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising approach for adaptive robot control, but its current application to robotics is currently hindered by high sample requirements. We propose two novel data augmentation techniques for DRL in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Yijiong Lin , Jiancong Huang , Matthieu Zimmer , Juan Rojas , Paul Weng

The success of deep learning depends heavily on the availability of large datasets, but in robotic manipulation there are many learning problems for which such datasets do not exist. Collecting these datasets is time-consuming and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Peter Mitrano , Dmitry Berenson

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 augmentation (DA) is widely employed to improve the generalization performance of deep models. However, most existing DA methods employ augmentation operations with fixed or random magnitudes throughout the training process. While this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Suorong Yang , Peijia Li , Xin Xiong , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Data augmentation (DA) aims to generate constrained and diversified data to improve classifiers in Low-Resource Classification (LRC). Previous studies mostly use a fine-tuned Language Model (LM) to strengthen the constraints but ignore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Guang Liu , Hailong Huang , Yuzhao Mao , Weiguo Gao , Xuan Li , Jianping Shen

Data augmentation (DA) plays a critical role in improving the generalization of deep learning models. Recent works on automatically searching for DA policies from data have achieved great success. However, existing automated DA methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Shiqi Lin , Tao Yu , Ruoyu Feng , Xin Li , Xin Jin , Zhibo Chen

Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language model reasoning is frequently hindered by signal loss, a phenomenon where standard uniform sampling with small group sizes fails to uncover informative learning signals for difficult prompts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Wei Xiong , Chenlu Ye , Baohao Liao , Hanze Dong , Xinxing Xu , Christof Monz , Jiang Bian , Nan Jiang , Tong Zhang

As an essential branch of recommender systems, sequential recommendation (SR) has received much attention due to its well-consistency with real-world situations. However, the widespread data sparsity issue limits the SR model's performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yizhou Dang , Enneng Yang , Yuting Liu , Guibing Guo , Linying Jiang , Jianzhe Zhao , Xingwei Wang

Data augmentation is a crucial regularization technique for deep neural networks, particularly in medical image classification. Mainstream data augmentation (DA) methods are usually applied at the image level. Due to the specificity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yaoyao Zhu , Xiuding Cai , Xueyao Wang , Xiaoqing Chen , Yu Yao , Zhongliang Fu

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