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AutoAugment

60 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

AutoAugment is an automated approach to find data augmentation policies from data. It formulates the problem of finding the best augmentation policy as a discrete search problem. It consists of two components: a search algorithm and a search space.

At a high level, the search algorithm (implemented as a controller RNN) samples a data augmentation policy S, which has information about what image processing operation to use, the probability of using the operation in each batch, and the magnitude of the operation. The policy S is used to train a neural network with a fixed architecture, whose validation accuracy R is sent back to update the controller. Since R is not differentiable, the controller will be updated by policy gradient methods.

The operations used are from PIL, a popular Python image library: all functions in PIL that accept an image as input and output an image. It additionally uses two other augmentation techniques: Cutout and SamplePairing. The operations searched over are ShearX/Y, TranslateX/Y, Rotate, AutoContrast, Invert, Equalize, Solarize, Posterize, Contrast, Color, Brightness, Sharpness, Cutout and Sample Pairing.

Source: AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Policies from Data

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Data Augmentation41
Image Classification25
Object Detection14
image-classification13
object-detection11
General Classification8
Domain Generalization6
GPU5
Image Augmentation5
Semantic Segmentation5
AutoML4
Diversity4
Fine-Grained Image Classification4
Classification3
Contrastive Learning3
Image Retrieval3
Knowledge Distillation3
Object3
Reinforcement Learning3
Retrieval3

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with AutoAugment: 2018 to 2025, peak 18 18 0 2018: 2 papers 2018 2019: 16 papers 2019 2020: 18 papers 2020 2021: 13 papers 2021 2022: 5 papers 2022 2023: 2 papers 2023 2024: 3 papers 2024 2025: 1 paper 2025
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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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