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mixup: Beyond Empirical Risk Minimization

Mar 2019

tl;dr: Linear blending of labels boosts accuracy and generalizability of classification.

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The mixup technical is simple as it does not require domain knowledge (data agnostic), but it is surprisingly effective. It can be seen as a special form of data augmentation, and also as a regularization technique.

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