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For a fixed parameter size, the capabilities of large models are primarily determined by the quality and quantity of its training data. Consequently, training datasets now grow faster than the rate at which new data is indexed on the web,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Minqi Jiang , João G. M. Araújo , Will Ellsworth , Sian Gooding , Edward Grefenstette

Achieving robustness to distributional shift is a longstanding and challenging goal of computer vision. Data augmentation is a commonly used approach for improving robustness, however robustness gains are typically not uniform across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Dong Yin , Raphael Gontijo Lopes , Jonathon Shlens , Ekin D. Cubuk , Justin Gilmer

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

This paper investigates methods for improving generative data augmentation for deep learning. Generative data augmentation leverages the synthetic samples produced by generative models as an additional dataset for classification with small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Daiki Chijiwa , Sekitoshi Kanai , Atsutoshi Kumagai , Hisashi Kashima

Learner performance data collected by Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), such as responses to questions, is essential for modeling and predicting learners' knowledge states. However, missing responses due to skips or incomplete attempts…

With promising empirical performance across a wide range of applications, synthetic data augmentation appears a viable solution to data scarcity and the demands of increasingly data-intensive models. Its effectiveness lies in expanding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zixuan Wu , So Won Jeong , Yating Liu , Yeo Jin Jung , Claire Donnat

Graphical models capture relations between entities in a wide range of applications including social networks, biology, and natural language processing, among others. Graph neural networks (GNN) are neural models that operate over graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Xu Zheng , Farhad Shirani , Tianchun Wang , Shouwei Gao , Wenqian Dong , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo

Transfer learning across domains with distribution shift remains a fundamental challenge in building robust and adaptable machine learning systems. While adversarial perturbations are traditionally viewed as threats that expose model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hana Satou , Alan Mitkiy

A generative adversarial network (GAN) has been a representative backbone model in generative artificial intelligence (AI) because of its powerful performance in capturing intricate data-generating processes. However, the GAN training is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-21 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song

Data augmentation (DA) is fundamental against overfitting in large convolutional neural networks, especially with a limited training dataset. In images, DA is usually based on heuristic transformations, like geometric or color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Saypraseuth Mounsaveng , David Vazquez , Ismail Ben Ayed , Marco Pedersoli

We focus on generative AI for a type of data that still represent one of the most prevalent form of data: tabular data. Our paper introduces two key contributions: a new powerful class of forest-based models fit for such tasks and a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Richard Nock , Mathieu Guillame-Bert

Data augmentation is one of the most widely used techniques to improve generalization in modern machine learning, often justified by its ability to promote invariance to label-irrelevant transformations. However, its theoretical role…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Abdelali Bouyahia , Frédéric LeBlanc , Mario Marchand

In computer vision, contrastive learning is the most advanced unsupervised learning framework. Yet most previous methods simply apply fixed composition of data augmentations to improve data efficiency, which ignores the changes in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yuhan Zhang , He Zhu , Shan Yu

Over the past years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown a remarkable generation performance especially in image synthesis. Unfortunately, they are also known for having an unstable training process and might loose parts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Teodora Pandeva , Matthias Schubert

One way to expand the available dataset for training AI models in the medical field is through the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for data augmentation. GANs work by employing a generator network to create new data samples…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Angona Biswas , MD Abdullah Al Nasim , Al Imran , Anika Tabassum Sejuty , Fabliha Fairooz , Sai Puppala , Sajedul Talukder

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 widely used to train deep learning models to address data scarcity. However, traditional data augmentation (TDA) typically relies on simple geometric transformation, such as random rotation and rescaling, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dekai Zhu , Stefan Gavranovic , Flavien Boussuge , Benjamin Busam , Slobodan Ilic

Recent works in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are actively revisiting various data augmentation techniques as an effective way to prevent discriminator overfitting. It is still unclear, however, that which augmentations could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

Generative adversarial networks constitute a powerful approach to generative modeling. While generated samples often are indistinguishable from real data, there is no guarantee that they will follow the true data distribution. For…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-09 Philipp Pilar , Niklas Wahlström

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