MixUp as Locally Linear Out-of-Manifold Regularization

Authors

  • Hongyu Guo National Research Council Canada
  • Yongyi Mao University of Ottawa
  • Richong Zhang Beihang University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33013714

Abstract

MixUp (Zhang et al. 2017) is a recently proposed dataaugmentation 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 current art. The power of MixUp, however, is primarily established empirically and its working and effectiveness have not been explained in any depth. In this paper, we develop an understanding for MixUp as a form of “out-of-manifold regularization”, which imposes certain “local linearity” constraints on the model’s input space beyond the data manifold. This analysis enables us to identify a limitation of MixUp, which we call “manifold intrusion”. In a nutshell, manifold intrusion in MixUp is a form of under-fitting resulting from conflicts between the synthetic labels of the mixed-up examples and the labels of original training data. Such a phenomenon usually happens when the parameters controlling the generation of mixing policies are not sufficiently fine-tuned on the training data. To address this issue, we propose a novel adaptive version of MixUp, where the mixing policies are automatically learned from the data using an additional network and objective function designed to avoid manifold intrusion. The proposed regularizer, AdaMixUp, is empirically evaluated on several benchmark datasets. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AdaMixUp improves upon MixUp when applied to the current art of deep classification models.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Guo, H., Mao, Y., & Zhang, R. (2019). MixUp as Locally Linear Out-of-Manifold Regularization. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 3714-3722. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33013714

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AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning