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In this paper, we address a key scientific problem in machine learning: Given a training set for an image classification task, can we train a generative model on this dataset to enhance the classification performance? (i.e., closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Haowen Wang , Guowei Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Zeyuan Chen , Haiyang Xu , Dou Hoon Kwark , Zhuowen Tu

Data augmentation is a cornerstone technique in deep learning, widely used to improve model generalization. Traditional methods like random cropping and color jittering, as well as advanced techniques such as CutOut, Mixup, and CutMix, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jingyang Li , Jiachun Pan , Kim-Chuan Toh , Pan Zhou

Data limitation is one of the most common issues in training machine learning classifiers for medical applications. Due to ethical concerns and data privacy, the number of people that can be recruited to such experiments is generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Bahman Mirheidari , Yilin Pan , Daniel Blackburn , Ronan O'Malley , Traci Walker , Annalena Venneri , Markus Reuber , Heidi Christensen

We consider the problem of data augmentation, i.e., generating artificial samples to extend a given corpus of training data. Specifically, we propose attributed-guided augmentation (AGA) which learns a mapping that allows to synthesize data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Mandar Dixit , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Nuno Vasconcelos

Data augmentation is an essential part of the training process applied to deep learning models. The motivation is that a robust training process for deep learning models depends on large annotated datasets, which are expensive to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Toan Tran , Trung Pham , Gustavo Carneiro , Lyle Palmer , Ian Reid

Data augmentation is popular in the training of large neural networks; currently, however, there is no clear theoretical comparison between different algorithmic choices on how to use augmented data. In this paper, we take a step in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Shuo Yang , Yijun Dong , Rachel Ward , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Sujay Sanghavi , Qi Lei

This work proposes a method to evaluate synthetic tabular data generated to augment small sample datasets. While data augmentation techniques can increase sample counts for machine learning applications, traditional validation approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Javier Marin

Data augmentation reduces the generalization error by forcing a model to learn invariant representations given different transformations of the input image. In computer vision, on top of the standard image processing functions, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Rowel Atienza

Automated data augmentation has shown superior performance in image recognition. Existing works search for dataset-level augmentation policies without considering individual sample variations, which are likely to be sub-optimal. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Fengwei Zhou , Jiawei Li , Chuanlong Xie , Fei Chen , Lanqing Hong , Rui Sun , Zhenguo Li

Automated data augmentation, which aims at engineering augmentation policy automatically, recently draw a growing research interest. Many previous auto-augmentation methods utilized a Density Matching strategy by evaluating policies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jianwei Zhang , Dong Li , Lituan Wang , Lei Zhang

One of the growing trends in machine learning is the use of data generation techniques, since the performance of machine learning models is dependent on the quantity of the training dataset. However, in many real-world applications,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yasaman Haghbin , Hadi Moradi , Reshad Hosseini

Data augmentation methods enrich datasets with augmented data to improve the performance of neural networks. Recently, automated data augmentation methods have emerged, which automatically design augmentation strategies. Existing work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Misgana Negassi , Diane Wagner , Alexander Reiterer

Large-batch SGD is important for scaling training of deep neural networks. However, without fine-tuning hyperparameter schedules, the generalization of the model may be hampered. We propose to use batch augmentation: replicating instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Elad Hoffer , Tal Ben-Nun , Itay Hubara , Niv Giladi , Torsten Hoefler , Daniel Soudry

In this paper, we reveal the two sides of data augmentation: enhancements in closed-set recognition correlate with a significant decrease in open-set recognition. Through empirical investigation, we find that multi-sample-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yunbing Jia , Xiaoyu Kong , Fan Tang , Yixing Gao , Weiming Dong , Yi Yang

We provide universality results that quantify how data augmentation affects the variance and limiting distribution of estimates through simple surrogates, and analyze several specific models in detail. The results confirm some observations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Kevin Han Huang , Peter Orbanz , Morgane Austern

Although data augmentation is a powerful technique for improving the performance of image classification tasks, it is difficult to identify the best augmentation policy. The optimal augmentation policy, which is the latent variable, cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Koichi Kuriyama

In this paper, we explore and compare multiple solutions to the problem of data augmentation in image classification. Previous work has demonstrated the effectiveness of data augmentation through simple techniques, such as cropping,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Luis Perez , Jason Wang

Single-source domain generalization (SDG) in medical image segmentation is a challenging yet essential task as domain shifts are quite common among clinical image datasets. Previous attempts most conduct global-only/random augmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zixian Su , Kai Yao , Xi Yang , Qiufeng Wang , Jie Sun , Kaizhu Huang

Data augmentation has been shown to effectively improve the performance of multimodal machine learning models. This paper introduces a generative model for data augmentation by leveraging the correlations among multiple modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zixu Wang , Yishu Miao , Lucia Specia

Data augmentation is an effective technique to improve the generalization of deep neural networks. However, previous data augmentation methods usually treat the augmented samples equally without considering their individual impacts on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Mingyang Yi , Lu Hou , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Zhi-Ming Ma