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Data augmentation is a major component of many machine learning methods with state-of-the-art performance. Common augmentation strategies work by drawing random samples from a space of transformations. Unfortunately, such sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Calvin Luo , Hossein Mobahi , Samy Bengio

In this paper we investigate the benefit of augmenting data with synthetically created samples when training a machine learning classifier. Two approaches for creating additional training samples are data warping, which generates additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Sebastien C. Wong , Adam Gatt , Victor Stamatescu , Mark D. McDonnell

Self-supervised contrastive learning heavily relies on the view variance brought by data augmentation, so that it can learn a view-invariant pre-trained representation. Beyond increasing the view variance for contrast, this work focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yong Zhang , Rui Zhu , Shifeng Zhang , Xu Zhou , Shifeng Chen , Xiaofan Chen

Scaling laws dictate that the performance of AI models is proportional to the amount of available data. Data augmentation is a promising solution to expanding the dataset size. Traditional approaches focused on augmentation using rotation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Fazle Rahat , M Shifat Hossain , Md Rubel Ahmed , Sumit Kumar Jha , Rickard Ewetz

Data augmentation plays a key role in modern machine learning pipelines. While numerous augmentation strategies have been studied in the context of computer vision and natural language processing, less is known for other data modalities.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-23 Elliott Gordon-Rodriguez , Thomas P. Quinn , John P. Cunningham

Data augmentation is a series of techniques that generate high-quality artificial data by manipulating existing data samples. By leveraging data augmentation techniques, AI models can achieve significantly improved applicability in tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zaitian Wang , Pengfei Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Pengyang Wang , Yanjie Fu , Chang-Tien Lu , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jian Pei , Yuanchun Zhou

Federated learning aims to collaboratively model by integrating multi-source information to obtain a model that can generalize across all client data. Existing methods often leverage knowledge distillation or data augmentation to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Runhui Zhang , Sijin Zhou , Zhuang Qi

In the realm of visual recognition, data augmentation stands out as a pivotal technique to amplify model robustness. Yet, a considerable number of existing methodologies lean heavily on heuristic foundations, rendering their intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Zhendong Liu , Jie Zhang , Qiangqiang He , Chongjun Wang

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

Data augmentation is a widely used technique and an essential ingredient in the recent advance in self-supervised representation learning. By preserving the similarity between augmented data, the resulting data representation can improve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-16 Shulei Wang

Causal modeling provides us with powerful counterfactual reasoning and interventional mechanism to generate predictions and reason under various what-if scenarios. However, causal discovery using observation data remains a nontrivial task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Jawad Chowdhury , Rezaur Rashid , Gabriel Terejanu

Offline data are both valuable and practical resources for teaching robots complex behaviors. Ideally, learning agents should not be constrained by the scarcity of available demonstrations, but rather generalize beyond the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Núria Armengol Urpí , Marco Bagatella , Marin Vlastelica , Georg Martius

Determining the plausibility of causal relations between clauses is a commonsense reasoning task that requires complex inference ability. The general approach to this task is to train a large pretrained language model on a specific dataset.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ieva Staliūnaitė , Philip John Gorinski , Ignacio Iacobacci

Data augmentation, by the introduction of auxiliary variables, has become an ubiquitous technique to improve convergence properties, simplify the implementation or reduce the computational time of inference methods such as Markov chain…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-30 Maxime Vono , Nicolas Dobigeon , Pierre Chainais

The rapid progress in machine learning methods has been empowered by i) huge datasets that have been collected and annotated, ii) improved engineering (e.g. data pre-processing/normalization). The existing datasets typically include several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Grigorios G. Chrysos , Yannis Panagakis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Though data augmentation has become a standard component of deep neural network training, the underlying mechanism behind the effectiveness of these techniques remains poorly understood. In practice, augmentation policies are often chosen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Raphael Gontijo-Lopes , Sylvia J. Smullin , Ekin D. Cubuk , Ethan Dyer

A data augmentation module is utilized in contrastive learning to transform the given data example into two views, which is considered essential and irreplaceable. However, the predetermined composition of multiple data augmentations brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Junbo Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

Generative data augmentation, which scales datasets by obtaining fake labeled examples from a trained conditional generative model, boosts classification performance in various learning tasks including (semi-)supervised learning, few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Chenyu Zheng , Guoqiang Wu , Chongxuan Li

Current data augmentation techniques and transformations are well suited for improving the size and quality of natural image datasets but are not yet optimized for medical imaging. We hypothesize that sub-optimal data augmentations can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Tara M. Pattilachan , Ugur Demir , Elif Keles , Debesh Jha , Derk Klatte , Megan Engels , Sanne Hoogenboom , Candice Bolan , Michael Wallace , Ulas Bagci

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