English
Related papers

Related papers: Learning Better with Less: Effective Augmentation …

200 papers

Data Augmentation (DA) has become an essential tool to improve robustness and generalization of modern machine learning. However, when deciding on DA strategies it is critical to choose parameters carefully, and this can be a daunting task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Madi Matymov , Ba-Hien Tran , Michael Kampffmeyer , Markus Heinonen , Maurizio Filippone

Data augmentation forms the cornerstone of many modern machine learning training pipelines; yet, the mechanisms by which it works are not clearly understood. Much of the research on data augmentation (DA) has focused on improving existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Damien A. Dablain , Nitesh V. Chawla

Data augmentation is an effective way to diversify corpora in machine translation, but previous methods may introduce semantic inconsistency between original and augmented data because of irreversible operations and random subword sampling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jiashu Yao , Heyan Huang , Zeming Liu , Yuhang Guo

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

Data augmentation (DA) is a powerful workhorse for bolstering performance in modern machine learning. Specific augmentations like translations and scaling in computer vision are traditionally believed to improve generalization by generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Chi-Heng Lin , Chiraag Kaushik , Eva L. Dyer , Vidya Muthukumar

Data augmentation is often used to enlarge datasets with synthetic samples generated in accordance with the underlying data distribution. To enable a wider range of augmentations, we explore negative data augmentation strategies (NDA)that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Abhishek Sinha , Kumar Ayush , Jiaming Song , Burak Uzkent , Hongxia Jin , Stefano Ermon

Data augmentation (DA) encodes invariance and provides implicit regularization critical to a model's performance in image classification tasks. However, while DA improves average accuracy, recent studies have shown that its impact can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim , Randall Balestriero , Diane Bouchacourt , Ramakrishna Vedantam , Hamed Firooz , Andrew Gordon Wilson

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

Deep learning has performed remarkably well on many tasks recently. However, the superior performance of deep models relies heavily on the availability of a large number of training data, which limits the wide adaptation of deep models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Huiyuan Yang , Han Yu , Akane Sano

Data augmentation (DA) is indispensable in modern machine learning and deep neural networks. The basic idea of DA is to construct new training data to improve the model's generalization by adding slightly disturbed versions of existing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chengtai Cao , Fan Zhou , Yurou Dai , Jianping Wang , Kunpeng Zhang

While data augmentation (DA) is generally applied to input data, several studies have reported that applying DA to hidden layers in neural networks, i.e., feature augmentation, can improve performance. However, in previous studies, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Tomoumi Takase , Ryo Karakida

In this paper, we present an effective data augmentation framework leveraging the Large Language Model (LLM) and Diffusion Model (DM) to tackle the challenges inherent in data-scarce scenarios. Recently, DMs have opened up the possibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Kyuheon Jung , Yongdeuk Seo , Seongwoo Cho , Jaeyoung Kim , Hyun-seok Min , Sungchul Choi

Recent works have shown that powerful pre-trained language models (PLM) can be fooled by small perturbations or intentional attacks. To solve this issue, various data augmentation techniques are proposed to improve the robustness of PLMs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Sirui Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Wei Wu , Ji-Rong Wen

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have made an incredible progress in many Computer Vision tasks. This progress, however, often relies on the availability of large amounts of the training data, required to prevent over-fitting, which in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dominik Lewy , Jacek Mańdziuk

Existing automatic data augmentation (DA) methods either ignore updating DA's parameters according to the target model's state during training or adopt update strategies that are not effective enough. In this work, we design a novel data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xiaogang Xu , Hengshuang Zhao

Textual data augmentation (DA) is a prolific field of study where novel techniques to create artificial data are regularly proposed, and that has demonstrated great efficiency on small data settings, at least for text classification tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Frédéric Piedboeuf , Philippe Langlais

Data augmentation (DA) has become a de facto solution to expand training data size for deep learning. With the proliferation of deep models for time series analysis, various time series DA techniques are proposed in the literature, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Muxi Chen , Zhijian Xu , Ailing Zeng , Qiang Xu

Data augmentation methods have played an important role in the recent advance of deep learning models, and have become an indispensable component of state-of-the-art models in semi-supervised, self-supervised, and supervised training for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Emirhan Kurtulus , Zichao Li , Yann Dauphin , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

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

Training a deep learning model to classify histopathological images is challenging, because of the color and shape variability of the cells and tissues, and the reduced amount of available data, which does not allow proper learning of those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Saypraseuth Mounsaveng , Issam Laradji , David Vázquez , Marco Perdersoli , Ismail Ben Ayed