Noisy Feature Mixup improves model robustness with noise-perturbed convex combinations.
problem Improving model robustness against data perturbations.
method Noise-perturbed convex combinations of pairs of data points in input and feature space.
result Improved model robustness and favorable trade-offs between accuracy and robustness.
Mixup improves feature learning by mixing common and rare features.
problem Improving generalization in deep learning models.
method Mixup, a data augmentation technique, is applied to feature learning. Theoretical and experimental studies are conducted to understand its benefits.
result Mixup effectively learns rare features from common ones, leading to better generalization.
DACL tackles domain-specific contrastive learning by using Mixup noise.
problem Domain-specific contrastive learning methods rely on data augmentation techniques that require domain knowledge.
method DACL uses Mixup noise to create similar and dissimilar examples without domain-specific data augmentation.
result DACL outperforms other domain-agnostic noising methods and combines well with domain-specific methods.
Mixup~\cite{zhang2017mixup} is a recently proposed method for training deep neural networks where additional samples are generated during training by convexly combining random pairs of images and their associated labels. While simple to implement, it has been shown to be a surprisingly effective method of data augmenta…
DRFLM improves federated learning by handling data heterogeneity and noise.
problem Data heterogeneity and noise in federated learning.
method Distributionally robust optimization and mixup techniques.
result Enhanced global model prediction accuracy through robust optimization and local mixup.
Enhances neural network robustness with Mixup and TLAT.
problem Neural networks are sensitive to various perturbations and adversarial examples.
method Combines Mixup augmentation with Targeted Labeling Adversarial Training (TLAT).
result M-TLAT increases robustness against 19 corruptions and 5 adversarial attacks without reducing clean sample accuracy.
Improves neural networks by adjusting labels to reduce overfitting to noisy data.
problem Reduces overfitting to mislabeled or non-representative samples in neural networks.
method Combines self-adaptive training with mixup to improve accuracy and robustness.
result Achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on image recognition datasets with label noise.
Temperature scaling fails for distributions with class overlaps, while Mixup improves calibration.
problem Temperature scaling's performance degrades with class overlaps, leading to poor calibration.
method Identified temperature scaling's limitations and compared it with Mixup for calibration.
result Mixup significantly outperforms temperature scaling in calibration metrics with class overlaps.
SelectMix improves deep learning robustness against noisy labels.
problem Deep neural networks memorize noisy labels, degrading performance.
method Confidence-guided targeted sample mixing with soft labels.
result SelectMix consistently outperforms baseline methods on noisy label datasets.
C-Mixup improves generalization in regression tasks by adjusting label similarity.
problem Improving generalization in regression tasks with limited data.
method C-Mixup adjusts the probability of mixing examples based on label similarity.
result C-Mixup achieves better generalization and robustness compared to vanilla mixup.
New method improves neural network generalization and robustness.
problem Improving neural network generalization and robustness to input perturbations.
method Co-Mixup with supermodular diversity, optimizing data saliency and diversity.
result Achieves state-of-the-art generalization, calibration, and localization results.
In this work, we explain the working mechanism of MixUp in terms of adversarial training. We introduce a new class of adversarial training schemes, which we refer to as directional adversarial training, or DAT. In a nutshell, a DAT scheme perturbs a training example in the direction of another example but keeps its ori…
Mixup improves model robustness and generalization by convexly combining examples.
problem Improving model robustness and generalization.
method Using Mixup augmentation in training, which involves convex combinations of pairs of examples and their labels.
result Mixup training helps models exhibit robustness to adversarial attacks and reduces overfitting.
Mixed Sample Data Augmentation (MSDA) has received increasing attention in recent years, with many successful variants such as MixUp and CutMix. By studying the mutual information between the function learned by a VAE on the original data and on the augmented data we show that MixUp distorts learned functions in a way …
A new probabilistic mixup framework improves deep learning generalization.
problem Improving deep learning generalization performance.
method Introduces a novel probabilistic mixup framework for conditional density estimation.
result Empirical results show benefits over existing mixup variants.
Mixup improves model performance by interpolating random training examples.
problem Overfitting in machine learning models.
method Mixup is a regularization procedure that linearly interpolates random pairs of training examples.
result Mixup works well from a statistical learning theory perspective.
Large deep neural networks are powerful, but exhibit undesirable behaviors such as memorization and sensitivity to adversarial examples. In this work, we propose mixup, a simple learning principle to alleviate these issues. In essence, mixup trains a neural network on convex combinations of pairs of examples and their …
It has been widely recognized that adversarial examples can be easily crafted to fool deep networks, which mainly root from the locally non-linear behavior nearby input examples. Applying mixup in training provides an effective mechanism to improve generalization performance and model robustness against adversarial per…
ε-Consistent Mixup improves semi-supervised classification accuracy.
problem Improving semi-supervised classification accuracy with limited labeled data.
method Combines Mixup's linear interpolation with consistency regularization, using an adaptive tradeoff between the two.
result ε-Consistent Mixup yields the largest gains in low label-availability scenarios.
Paper examines fairness of data augmentation methods, finding vanilla Mixup outperforms Fair Mixup.
problem Improving fairness in classification models with limited minority data.
method Uses multicalibration to rigorously evaluate and improve data augmentation methods for classification fairness.
result Vanilla Mixup outperforms Fair Mixup and baseline methods in fairness and accuracy, especially with small minority groups.
We apply mixup regularization to RNNs for improved performance.
problem Improving the performance of Recurrent Neural Networks.
method We extend mixup regularization techniques to RNNs, making them easier and less computationally intensive.
result Sequence mixup improved F-1 score and reduced loss in Named Entity Recognition tasks.
Improves fairness in machine learning by adding underrepresented group data.
problem Machine learning biases across subgroups due to under-representation or societal biases.
method Data augmentation via pairwise mixup across subgroups to balance subpopulations.
result Achieves fair outcomes with robust if not improved accuracy.
New approach improves model robustness and calibration in latent space.
problem Improving model robustness and calibration under input perturbations.
method VarMixup (Variational Mixup) in latent space of VAEs.
result Models trained with VarMixup in latent space are more robust and calibrated.
Mixup improves model accuracy and calibration through data transformation and random perturbation.
problem Improving model accuracy and calibration in machine learning.
method Interprets Mixup as empirical risk minimization with data transformation and random perturbation.
result Mixup induces multiple known regularization schemes that prevent overfitting and overconfident predictions.
Mixup technique improved, reducing manifold mismatch for better calibration.
problem Improving calibration of models using Mixup.
method Dynamic adjustment of interpolation coefficients based on sample similarity.
result Improved predictive performance and calibration with reduced manifold mismatch.
RegMixMatch optimizes Mixup for semi-supervised learning by integrating high- and low-confidence samples.
problem Mixup degrades SSL performance by compromising artificial labels purity.
method RegMixMatch integrates high- and low-confidence samples, uses class-aware Mixup, and mitigates confirmation bias.
result RegMixMatch achieves state-of-the-art performance in SSL benchmarks.
MixUp is a recently proposed data-augmentation scheme, which linearly interpolates a random pair of training examples and correspondingly the one-hot representations of their labels. Training deep neural networks with such additional data is shown capable of significantly improving the predictive accuracy of the curren…
Fair Mixup improves fairness in classifiers by interpolating between groups.
problem Ensuring fairness in classifiers during training and evaluation.
method Fair Mixup uses interpolation of samples between groups to enforce fairness constraints.
result Fair Mixup ensures better generalization of fairness in various benchmarks.
The paper introduces boundary thickness as a measure for improving model robustness.
problem Improving the robustness of machine learning models to adversarial and non-adversarial corruptions.
method Introducing boundary thickness as a measure and showing how various procedures can increase it.
result Thicker decision boundaries lead to improved robustness against adversarial and out-of-distribution transforms.
Puzzle Mix optimizes mixup by leveraging saliency and local statistics.
problem Overfitting and adversarial vulnerability of deep networks.
method Puzzle Mix alternates between multi-label and saliency-based objectives for optimal mixing masks.
result Puzzle Mix outperforms other mixup methods in generalization and adversarial robustness.
Mixup reduces the sample complexity of finding optimal decision boundaries for more separable data.
problem Finding optimal decision boundaries in separable data distributions.
method Mixup technique applied to binary linear classification problems.
result Mixup significantly reduces the sample complexity for more separable data.
Enhances machine learning models by preserving data structure, addressing statistical distortions.
problem Statistical distortions in synthetic data generated by Mixup.
method Proposes a generalized mixup method with a flexible weighting scheme to preserve data structure.
result Preserves statistical properties of original data while maintaining model performance.
Deep neural networks excel at learning the training data, but often provide incorrect and confident predictions when evaluated on slightly different test examples. This includes distribution shifts, outliers, and adversarial examples. To address these issues, we propose Manifold Mixup, a simple regularizer that encoura…
Mixup helps learn both features in multi-view classification problems.
problem Learning both features in multi-view classification problems.
method Training with a specific instantiation of Mixup.
result Training with Mixup leads to learning both features for every class.
Enhances SSL with mixup and Lipschitz regularization.
problem Improving SSL performance with limited labeled data.
method Adopts mixup for smoothness, adds adversarial Lipschitz regularization.
result Combined regularization improves SSL performance and robustness.
Regularization plays a crucial role in machine learning models, especially for deep neural networks. The existing regularization techniques mainly rely on the i.i.d. assumption and only consider the knowledge from the current sample, without the leverage of the neighboring relationship between samples. In this work, we…
Mixes higher-order simplicial complexes for data augmentation.
problem Lack of labeled data for complex systems with multiway interactions.
method Proposes mixup mechanisms for simplicial complexes, including linear and nonlinear mixup, and a convex clustering mixup.
result Synthetic simplicial complexes interpolate between existing data based on homomorphism densities.
DMRL improves UDA by mixing source and target samples and enriching latent space structures.
problem Lack of class-aware information and insufficient samples for domain-invariant feature extraction.
method Dual Mixup Regularized Learning (DMRL) that conducts category and domain mixup regularizations.
result DMRL achieves state-of-the-art performance on domain adaptation benchmarks.
Data augmentation by mixing samples, such as Mixup, has widely been used typically for classification tasks. However, this strategy is not always effective due to the gap between augmented samples for training and original samples for testing. This gap may prevent a classifier from learning the optimal decision boundar…
Paper improves deep learning for instance-level classification from label proportions.
problem Dealing with noisy pseudo-labeling and high-entropy class distributions in LLP.
method Introducing a two-stage training approach with constrained optimization and mixup strategy.
result Significant performance improvement in instance-level classification.
Few-shot learning algorithms aim to learn model parameters capable of adapting to unseen classes with the help of only a few labeled examples. A recent regularization technique - Manifold Mixup focuses on learning a general-purpose representation, robust to small changes in the data distribution. Since the goal of few-…
New loss improves DNN calibration without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Overfitting and overconfident predictions in DNNs.
method Proposes a new loss function inspired by Bayes decision theory.
result Improves DNN calibration without compromising accuracy.
iTimER learns from reconstruction errors to represent irregularly sampled time series.
problem Learning from irregularly sampled time series with missing data.
method iTimER models reconstruction errors as a proxy for unobserved values, using a mixup strategy and a Wasserstein metric.
result iTimER outperforms state-of-the-art methods in classification, interpolation, and forecasting tasks.
A new method MixGDA combines mixup and gradient-based data augmentation for SSL.
problem Improving semi-supervised learning performance with limited labeled data.
method Gradient-based Data Augmentation (GDA) combined with mixup methods.
result MixGDA achieves state-of-the-art performance in various SSL benchmarks.
Unsupervised domain adaptation studies the problem of utilizing a relevant source domain with abundant labels to build predictive modeling for an unannotated target domain. Recent work observe that the popular adversarial approach of learning domain-invariant features is insufficient to achieve desirable target domain …
A machine learning model that generalizes well should obtain low errors on unseen test examples. Thus, if we know how to optimally perturb training examples to account for test examples, we may achieve better generalization performance. However, obtaining such perturbation is not possible in standard machine learning f…
Unified framework models graph data as a mixture of graphons using graph moments.
problem Graph datasets often mix from multiple underlying distributions.
method Model graph data as a mixture of graphons, using graph moments to cluster graphs.
result Graphs from similar graphons exhibit similar motif densities, enabling principled estimation of graphon mixture components.
SelMix fine-tunes pre-trained models to optimize non-decomposable objectives.
problem Optimizing non-decomposable performance measures for practical applications.
method Selective mixup fine-tuning of pre-trained models.
result SelMix significantly improves performance for various non-decomposable objectives.