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Detection of some types of toxic language is hampered by extreme scarcity of labeled training data. Data augmentation - generating new synthetic data from a labeled seed dataset - can help. The efficacy of data augmentation on toxic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mika Juuti , Tommi Gröndahl , Adrian Flanagan , N. Asokan

The scarcity and class imbalance of training data are known issues in current rumor detection tasks. We propose a straight-forward and general-purpose data augmentation technique which is beneficial to early rumor detection relying on event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Sooji Han , Jie Gao , Fabio Ciravegna

Data augmentation has been widely applied as an effective methodology to improve generalization in particular when training deep neural networks. Recently, researchers proposed a few intensive data augmentation techniques, which indeed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zhuoxun He , Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Large models, encompassing large language and diffusion models, have shown exceptional promise in approximating human-level intelligence, garnering significant interest from both academic and industrial spheres. However, the training of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yue Zhou , Chenlu Guo , Xu Wang , Yi Chang , Yuan Wu

We propose a novel data augmentation method for labeled sentences called conditional BERT contextual augmentation. Data augmentation methods are often applied to prevent overfitting and improve generalization of deep neural network models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Xing Wu , Shangwen Lv , Liangjun Zang , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have caused significant losses across a wide range of sectors, including the theft of sensitive data and harm to system integrity. As attack techniques grow increasingly sophisticated and stealthy, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Fei Zuo , Junghwan Rhee , Yung Ryn Choe

Various deep learning-based approaches utilizing pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been proposed for automated vulnerability detection. With recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), several studies have begun exploring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Honglin Shu , Michael Fu , Junji Yu , Dong Wang , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Junjie Chen , Yasutaka Kamei

Collecting and annotating datasets for pixel-level semantic segmentation tasks are highly labor-intensive. Data augmentation provides a viable solution by enhancing model generalization without additional real-world data collection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Huy Che , Dinh-Duy Phan , Duc-Khai Lam

Based on recent advances in natural language modeling and those in text generation capabilities, we propose a novel data augmentation method for text classification tasks. We use a powerful pre-trained neural network model to artificially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Ateret Anaby-Tavor , Boaz Carmeli , Esther Goldbraich , Amir Kantor , George Kour , Segev Shlomov , Naama Tepper , Naama Zwerdling

Confidence estimation is crucial for reflecting the reliability of large language models (LLMs), particularly in the widely used closed-source models. Utilizing data augmentation for confidence estimation is viable, but discussions focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Rui Wang , Renyu Zhu , Minmin Lin , Runze Wu , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Haobo Wang

Data augmentation is an effective technique for improving the performance of machine learning models. However, it has not been explored as extensively in natural language processing (NLP) as it has in computer vision. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Himmet Toprak Kesgin , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali

In the context of the rising interest in code language models (code LMs) and vulnerability detection, we study the effectiveness of code LMs for detecting vulnerabilities. Our analysis reveals significant shortcomings in existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yangruibo Ding , Yanjun Fu , Omniyyah Ibrahim , Chawin Sitawarin , Xinyun Chen , Basel Alomair , David Wagner , Baishakhi Ray , Yizheng Chen

Automated detection of software vulnerabilities is a fundamental problem in software security. Existing program analysis techniques either suffer from high false positives or false negatives. Recent progress in Deep Learning (DL) has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Saikat Chakraborty , Rahul Krishna , Yangruibo Ding , Baishakhi Ray

Data augmentation is vital to the generalization ability and robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) models. Existing augmentation methods for speaker verification manipulate the raw signal, which are time-consuming and the augmented…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-19 Yuanyuan Wang , Yang Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Zhihan Yang , Tao Wei , Kun Zou , Helen Meng

Data augmentation is a widely adopted technique for avoiding overfitting when training deep neural networks. However, this approach requires domain-specific knowledge and is often limited to a fixed set of hard-coded transformations.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-19 Oguz Kaan Yuksel , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi , Tatjana Chavdarova

The core of self-supervised learning for pre-training language models includes pre-training task design as well as appropriate data augmentation. Most data augmentations in language model pre-training are context-independent. A seminal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Yifei Xu , Jingqiao Zhang , Ru He , Liangzhu Ge , Chao Yang , Cheng Yang , Ying Nian Wu

Nowadays, data augmentation through synthetic data has been widely used in the field of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) to alleviate the problem of data scarcity. However, these synthetic data are mainly used in the pre-training phase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yixuan Wang , Baoxin Wang , Yijun Liu , Qingfu Zhu , Dayong Wu , Wanxiang Che

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

Data augmentation is widely used as a part of the training process applied to deep learning models, especially in the computer vision domain. Currently, common data augmentation techniques are designed manually. Therefore they require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Irynei Baran , Orest Kupyn , Arseny Kravchenko

Offensive language detection is a crucial task in today's digital landscape, where online platforms grapple with maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment. However, building robust offensive language detection models requires large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Elena-Beatrice Nicola , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop