Data Augmentation is Dead, Long Live Data Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14895v1
• Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:42:37 GMT
• Title: Data Augmentation is Dead, Long Live Data Augmentation
• Authors: Fr\'ed\'eric Piedboeuf and Philippe Langlais
• Abstract summary: We show that classical data augmentation is simply a way of performing better fine-tuning. We furthermore show that zero and few-shot data generation via conversational agents such as ChatGPT or LLama2 can increase performances.
• Score: 9.84721698045897
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Textual data augmentation (DA) is a prolific field of study where novel techniques to create artificial data are regularly proposed, and that has demonstrated great efficiency on small data settings, at least for text classification tasks. In this paper, we challenge those results, showing that classical data augmentation is simply a way of performing better fine-tuning, and that spending more time fine-tuning before applying data augmentation negates its effect. This is a significant contribution as it answers several questions that were left open in recent years, namely~: which DA technique performs best (all of them as long as they generate data close enough to the training set as to not impair training) and why did DA show positive results (facilitates training of network). We furthermore show that zero and few-shot data generation via conversational agents such as ChatGPT or LLama2 can increase performances, concluding that this form of data augmentation does still work, even if classical methods do not.

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