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Meta-learning algorithms aim to learn two components: a model that predicts targets for a task, and a base learner that quickly updates that model when given examples from a new task. This additional level of learning can be powerful, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Janarthanan Rajendran , Alex Irpan , Eric Jang

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

Recently machine unlearning (MU) is proposed to remove the imprints of revoked samples from the already trained model parameters, to solve users' privacy concern. Different from the runtime expensive retraining from scratch, there exist two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mingxin Li , Yizhen Yu , Ning Wang , Zhigang Wang , Xiaodong Wang , Haipeng Qu , Jia Xu , Shen Su , Zhichao Yin

Recent data-privacy laws have sparked interest in machine unlearning, which involves removing the effect of specific training samples from a learnt model as if they were never present in the original training dataset. The challenge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Tuan Hoang , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

Machine learning models may inadvertently memorize sensitive, unauthorized, or malicious data, posing risks of privacy breaches, security vulnerabilities, and performance degradation. To address these issues, machine unlearning has emerged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Jie Xu , Zihan Wu , Cong Wang , Xiaohua Jia

With the implementation of personal data privacy regulations, the field of machine learning (ML) faces the challenge of the "right to be forgotten". Machine unlearning has emerged to address this issue, aiming to delete data and reduce its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yi Xu

Though data augmentation has rapidly emerged as a key tool for optimization in modern machine learning, a clear picture of how augmentation schedules affect optimization and interact with optimization hyperparameters such as learning rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Boris Hanin , Yi Sun

Data augmentation is a crucial technique for training robust deep learning models for human motion, where annotated datasets are often scarce. However, generic augmentation methods often ignore the underlying geometric and kinematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bikram De , Habib Irani , Vangelis Metsis

Neural networks unintentionally memorize training data, creating privacy risks in federated learning (FL) systems, such as inference and reconstruction attacks on sensitive data. To mitigate these risks and to comply with privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Van-Tuan Tran , Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le , Quoc-Viet Pham

Data augmentation is a technique to improve the generalization ability of machine learning methods by increasing the size of the dataset. However, since every augmentation method is not equally effective for every dataset, you need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Daisuke Oba , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Brian Kenji Iwana

Data augmentation (DA) encodes invariance and provides implicit regularization critical to a model's performance in image classification tasks. However, while DA improves average accuracy, recent studies have shown that its impact can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim , Randall Balestriero , Diane Bouchacourt , Ramakrishna Vedantam , Hamed Firooz , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Machine unlearning (MU) is gaining increasing attention due to the need to remove or modify predictions made by machine learning (ML) models. While training models have become more efficient and accurate, the importance of unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Haoran Xie , Lin Li , Xiaofeng Zhu , Qing Li

For ethical and safe AI, machine unlearning rises as a critical topic aiming to protect sensitive, private, and copyrighted knowledge from misuse. To achieve this goal, it is common to conduct gradient ascent (GA) to reverse the training on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhuo Huang , Qizhou Wang , Ziming Hong , Shanshan Ye , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu

Previous attempts for data augmentation are designed manually, and the augmentation policies are dataset-specific. Recently, an automatic data augmentation approach, named AutoAugment, is proposed using reinforcement learning. AutoAugment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Mingyang Geng , Kele Xu , Bo Ding , Huaimin Wang , Lei Zhang

With the increasing utilization of deep learning in outdoor settings, its robustness needs to be enhanced to preserve accuracy in the face of distribution shifts, such as compression artifacts. Data augmentation is a widely used technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shohei Enomoto , Monikka Roslianna Busto , Takeharu Eda

Data augmentation is a powerful technique to improve performance in applications such as image and text classification tasks. Yet, there is little rigorous understanding of why and how various augmentations work. In this work, we consider a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sen Wu , Hongyang R. Zhang , Gregory Valiant , Christopher Ré

Machine unlearning aims to enable models to forget specific data instances when receiving deletion requests. Current research centres on efficient unlearning to erase the influence of data from the model and neglects the subsequent impacts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Xin Yu , Wanlei Zhou

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) may memorize sensitive cross-modal information during pretraining, making machine unlearning (MU) crucial. Existing methods typically evaluate unlearning effectiveness based on output deviations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jiahui Guang , Yingjie Zhu , Cuiyun Gao , Haiyan Wang , Jing Li , Di Shao , Zhaoquan Gu

Large language models deployed in sensitive applications increasingly require the ability to unlearn specific knowledge, such as user requests, copyrighted materials, or outdated information, without retraining from scratch to ensure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sadia Asif , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri

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