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In order to reduce overfitting, neural networks are typically trained with data augmentation, the practice of artificially generating additional training data via label-preserving transformations of existing training examples. While these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Cecilia Summers , Michael J. Dinneen

Recently, data augmentation (DA) has emerged as a method for leveraging domain knowledge to inexpensively generate additional data in reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, often yielding substantial improvements in data efficiency. While prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Nicholas E. Corrado , Josiah P. Hanna

Data augmentation (DA) is commonly used during model training, as it significantly improves test error and model robustness. DA artificially expands the training set by applying random noise, rotations, crops, or even adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Shashank Rajput , Zhili Feng , Zachary Charles , Po-Ling Loh , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

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

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

The training of spoken language understanding (SLU) models often faces the problem of data scarcity. In this paper, we put forward a data augmentation method using pretrained language models to boost the variability and accuracy of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Baolin Peng , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Jianfeng Gao

Data augmentation is an effective way to improve the performance of many neural text generation models. However, current data augmentation methods need to define or choose proper data mapping functions that map the original samples into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Wei Bi , Huayang Li , Jiacheng Huang

This study discusses the effect of semi-supervised learning in combination with pretrained language models for data-to-text generation. It is not known whether semi-supervised learning is still helpful when a large-scale language model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Chris van der Lee , Thiago Castro Ferreira , Chris Emmery , Travis Wiltshire , Emiel Krahmer

Dementia is a progressive neurological disorder that profoundly affects the daily lives of older adults, impairing abilities such as verbal communication and cognitive function. Early diagnosis is essential for enhancing both lifespan and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kaiying Lin , Peter Washington

Counterfactual data augmentation (CDA) is a method for controlling information or biases in training datasets by generating a complementary dataset with typically opposing biases. Prior work often either relies on hand-crafted rules or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mitchell Plyler , Min Chi

The ability to jointly learn from multiple modalities, such as text, audio, and visual data, is a defining feature of intelligent systems. While there have been promising advances in designing neural networks to harness multimodal data, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zichang Liu , Zhiqiang Tang , Xingjian Shi , Aston Zhang , Mu Li , Anshumali Shrivastava , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Text data augmentation is an effective strategy for overcoming the challenge of limited sample sizes in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. This challenge is especially prominent in the few-shot learning scenario, where the data…

Semi-supervised learning lately has shown much promise in improving deep learning models when labeled data is scarce. Common among recent approaches is the use of consistency training on a large amount of unlabeled data to constrain model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Qizhe Xie , Zihang Dai , Eduard Hovy , Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le

Pretrained language models (PLMs) perform poorly under adversarial attacks. To improve the adversarial robustness, adversarial data augmentation (ADA) has been widely adopted to cover more search space of adversarial attacks by adding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chenglei Si , Zhengyan Zhang , Fanchao Qi , Zhiyuan Liu , Yasheng Wang , Qun Liu , Maosong Sun

Artificial neural networks typically struggle in generalizing to out-of-context examples. One reason for this limitation is caused by having datasets that incorporate only partial information regarding the potential correlational structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Valentin Barriere , Felipe del Rio , Andres Carvallo De Ferari , Carlos Aspillaga , Eugenio Herrera-Berg , Cristian Buc Calderon

Machine translation (MT) models used in industries with constantly changing topics, such as translation or news agencies, need to adapt to new data to maintain their performance over time. Our aim is to teach a pre-trained MT model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Farid Arthaud , Rachel Bawden , Alexandra Birch

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 (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

Text classification has been one of the earliest problems in NLP. Over time the scope of application areas has broadened and the difficulty of dealing with new areas (e.g., noisy social media content) has increased. The problem-solving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Tanvirul Alam , Akib Khan , Firoj Alam

The increasingly popular adoption of deep learning models in many critical source code tasks motivates the development of data augmentation (DA) techniques to enhance training data and improve various capabilities (e.g., robustness and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Terry Yue Zhuo , Zhou Yang , Zhensu Sun , Yufei Wang , Li Li , Xiaoning Du , Zhenchang Xing , David Lo