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Reliable machine learning and statistical analysis rely on diverse, well-distributed training data. However, real-world datasets are often limited in size and exhibit underrepresentation across key subpopulations, leading to biased…

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Data augmentation is a crucial tool in time series forecasting, especially for deep learning architectures that require a large training sample size to generalize effectively. However, extensive datasets are not always available in…

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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can help overcome data scarcity in computer vision tasks by generating additional training samples. In this work, we explore generative data augmentation in two low-resource domains: Bangla handwritten…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Md. Sohanuzzaman Soad , Mahady Al Hady , S M Rafiuddin Rifat , Sudip Ghose

Machine learning systems are notoriously prone to biased predictions about certain demographic groups, leading to algorithmic fairness issues. Due to privacy concerns and data quality problems, some demographic information may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yingtao Luo , Zhixun Li , Qiang Liu , Jun Zhu

The emergence of generative AI models has dramatically expanded the availability and use of synthetic data across scientific, industrial, and policy domains. While these developments open new possibilities for data analysis, they also raise…

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Current medical image synthetic augmentation techniques rely on intensive use of generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, the nature of GAN architecture leads to heavy computational resources to produce synthetic images and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-21 Meng Li , Brian Lovell

We propose a method that augments a simulated dataset using diffusion models to improve the performance of pedestrian detection in real-world data. The high cost of collecting and annotating data in the real-world has motivated the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Andrew Farley , Mohsen Zand , Michael Greenspan

Data augmentation is a widely used trick when training deep neural networks: in addition to the original data, properly transformed data are also added to the training set. However, to the best of our knowledge, a clear mathematical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-10 Shuxiao Chen , Edgar Dobriban , Jane H Lee

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful in modeling graph-structured data. However, similar to other machine learning models, GNNs can exhibit bias in predictions based on attributes like race and gender. Moreover, bias in GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zengyi Wo , Chang Liu , Yumeng Wang , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

Counterfactual data augmentation has recently emerged as a method to mitigate confounding biases in the training data. These biases, such as spurious correlations, arise due to various observed and unobserved confounding variables in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy , Saketh Bachu , Saloni Dash , Charchit Sharma , Amit Sharma , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

The performance of generative adversarial networks (GANs) heavily deteriorates given a limited amount of training data. This is mainly because the discriminator is memorizing the exact training set. To combat it, we propose Differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shengyu Zhao , Zhijian Liu , Ji Lin , Jun-Yan Zhu , Song Han

Synthetic data generation overcomes limitations of real-world machine learning. Traditional methods are valuable for augmenting costly datasets but only optimize one criterion: realism. In this paper, we tackle the problem of generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chance N DeSmet , Diane J Cook

Data augmentation has recently seen increased interest in graph machine learning given its demonstrated ability to improve model performance and generalization by added training data. Despite this recent surge, the area is still relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Tong Zhao , Wei Jin , Yozen Liu , Yingheng Wang , Gang Liu , Stephan Günnemann , Neil Shah , Meng Jiang

Image generation abilities of text-to-image diffusion models have significantly advanced, yielding highly photo-realistic images from descriptive text and increasing the viability of leveraging synthetic images to train computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiahui Chen , Amy Zhang , Adriana Romero-Soriano

In this paper, we present a data augmentation method that generates synthetic medical images using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We propose a training scheme that first uses classical data augmentation to enlarge the training set…

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We propose a novel model-selection method for dynamic networks. Our approach involves training a classifier on a large body of synthetic network data. The data is generated by simulating nine state-of-the-art random graph models for dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lourens Touwen , Doina Bucur , Remco van der Hofstad , Alessandro Garavaglia , Nelly Litvak

Contrastive learning enables learning useful audio and speech representations without ground-truth labels by maximizing the similarity between latent representations of similar signal segments. In this framework various data augmentation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Salah Zaiem , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown potential in learning emotional attributes and generating new data samples. However, their performance is usually hindered by the unavailability of larger speech emotion recognition (SER)…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Siddique Latif , Muhammad Asim , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Björn W. Schuller

Deep artificial neural networks require a large corpus of training data in order to effectively learn, where collection of such training data is often expensive and laborious. Data augmentation overcomes this issue by artificially inflating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Luke Taylor , Geoff Nitschke

Many ground-breaking advancements in machine learning can be attributed to the availability of a large volume of rich data. Unfortunately, many large-scale datasets are highly sensitive, such as healthcare data, and are not widely available…

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