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This paper proposes AEDA (An Easier Data Augmentation) technique to help improve the performance on text classification tasks. AEDA includes only random insertion of punctuation marks into the original text. This is an easier technique to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Akbar Karimi , Leonardo Rossi , Andrea Prati

Data augmentation has been demonstrated as an effective strategy for improving model generalization and data efficiency. However, due to the discrete nature of natural language, designing label-preserving transformations for text data tends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Yanru Qu , Dinghan Shen , Yelong Shen , Sandra Sajeev , Jiawei Han , Weizhu Chen

Zero-shot detection (ZSD) is a challenging task where we aim to recognize and localize objects simultaneously, even when our model has not been trained with visual samples of a few target ("unseen") classes. Recently, methods employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Sandipan Sarma , Sushil Kumar , Arijit Sur

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) presents the challenge of identifying categories not seen during training. This task is crucial in domains where it is costly, prohibited, or simply not feasible to collect training data. ZSL depends on a mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 William Heyden , Habib Ullah , M. Salman Siddiqui , Fadi Al Machot

Stance detection is an important component of understanding hidden influences in everyday life. Since there are thousands of potential topics to take a stance on, most with little to no training data, we focus on zero-shot stance detection:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Emily Allaway , Kathleen McKeown

Zero-shot entity and relation classification models leverage available external information of unseen classes -- e.g., textual descriptions -- to annotate input text data. Thanks to the minimum data requirement, Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Gabriele Picco , Leopold Fuchs , Marcos Martínez Galindo , Alberto Purpura , Vanessa López , Hoang Thanh Lam

Vision-language models (VLMs) are vulnerable to adversarial image perturbations. Existing works based on adversarial training against task-specific adversarial examples are computationally expensive and often fail to generalize to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jingning Xu , Haochen Luo , Chen Liu

Error detection (ED) in tabular data is crucial yet challenging due to diverse error types and the need for contextual understanding. Traditional ED methods often rely heavily on manual criteria and labels, making them labor-intensive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Wei Ni , Kaihang Zhang , Xiaoye Miao , Xiangyu Zhao , Yangyang Wu , Yaoshu Wang , Jianwei Yin

We investigate the use of zero-shot text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) as a data augmentation source for low-resource personalized speech synthesis. While synthetic augmentation can provide linguistically rich and phonetically diverse speech, naively…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Youngwon Choi , Jinwoo Oh , Hwayeon Kim , Hyeonyu Kim

Data augmentation is widely known as a simple yet surprisingly effective technique for regularizing deep networks. Conventional data augmentation schemes, e.g., flipping, translation or rotation, are low-level, data-independent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Yulin Wang , Gao Huang , Shiji Song , Xuran Pan , Yitong Xia , Cheng Wu

Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates large language model (LLM) reasoning by using a small draft model to generate candidate tokens, which the target LLM either accepts directly or regenerates upon rejection. However, excessive alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tiancheng Su , Meicong Zhang , Guoxiu He

The performance of automatic speech recognition models often degenerates on domains not covered by the training data. Domain adaptation can address this issue, assuming the availability of the target domain data in the target language.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Han Zhu , Gaofeng Cheng , Qingwei Zhao , Pengyuan Zhang

Stance detection (SD) identifies the text position towards a target, typically labeled as favor, against, or none. We introduce Open-Target Stance Detection (OTSD), the most realistic task where targets are neither seen during training nor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Abu Ubaida Akash , Ahmed Fahmy , Amine Trabelsi

Current stance detection research typically relies on predicting stance based on given targets and text. However, in real-world social media scenarios, targets are neither predefined nor static but rather complex and dynamic. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Aohua Li , Yuanshuo Zhang , Ge Gao , Bo Chen , Xiaobing Zhao

Stance detection is the task of classifying the attitude expressed in a text towards a target such as Hillary Clinton to be "positive", negative" or "neutral". Previous work has assumed that either the target is mentioned in the text or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Isabelle Augenstein , Tim Rocktäschel , Andreas Vlachos , Kalina Bontcheva

In this paper, we propose a novel implicit semantic data augmentation (ISDA) approach to complement traditional augmentation techniques like flipping, translation or rotation. Our work is motivated by the intriguing property that deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yulin Wang , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Hong Zhang , Cheng Wu , Gao Huang

Zero-shot object detection (ZSD), the task that extends conventional detection models to detecting objects from unseen categories, has emerged as a new challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches tackle the ZSD task with a strict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Caixia Yan , Xiaojun Chang , Minnan Luo , Huan Liu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Qinghua Zheng

Data augmentation is vital for deep learning neural networks. By providing massive training samples, it helps to improve the generalization ability of the model. Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) is a challenging problem that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yukun Su , Ruizhou Sun , Guosheng Lin , Qingyao Wu

In this paper we propose a novel data augmentation method for attention-based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR), utilizing a large amount of text which is not paired with speech signals. Inspired by the back-translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Tomoki Hayashi , Shinji Watanabe , Yu Zhang , Tomoki Toda , Takaaki Hori , Ramon Astudillo , Kazuya Takeda

Text-attributed graph (TAG) provides a text description for each graph node, and few- and zero-shot node classification on TAGs have many applications in fields such as academia and social networks. Existing work utilizes various…

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