Learning from limited data remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning. While generative adversarial networks offer a promising solution by synthesizing training instances, they often produce biased distributions when trained on small datasets. We propose EnhanceGAN, a novel framework that addresses this limitation through two key innovations: an ensemble-based discriminator correction mechanism and a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling method for generator refinement. Furthermore, we introduce a two phase training strategy where downstream classifiers are first pre-trained on generated data, then fine-tuned on real instances to mitigate synthetic data bias. Comprehensive experiments across multiple datasets demonstrate that EnhanceGAN is effective in data-scarce scenarios.

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Learning from Limited Data via Generating and Fine-Tuning

  • Ying Zhang,
  • Hongbin Dong,
  • Hongbo Shi,
  • Jun He,
  • Xiaoping Zhang,
  • Meng Li

摘要

Learning from limited data remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning. While generative adversarial networks offer a promising solution by synthesizing training instances, they often produce biased distributions when trained on small datasets. We propose EnhanceGAN, a novel framework that addresses this limitation through two key innovations: an ensemble-based discriminator correction mechanism and a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling method for generator refinement. Furthermore, we introduce a two phase training strategy where downstream classifiers are first pre-trained on generated data, then fine-tuned on real instances to mitigate synthetic data bias. Comprehensive experiments across multiple datasets demonstrate that EnhanceGAN is effective in data-scarce scenarios.