A Gentle Introduction to Data Augmentation

The quantity and diversity of data are important factors in the effectiveness of most machine learning models. The amount and diversity of data supplied during training heavily influence the prediction accuracy of these models. Hidden neurons are common in deep learning models that have been trained to perform well on complex tasks. The number of trainable parameters grows in unison with the number of hidden neurons. The amount of data needed is proportional to the number of learnable parameters in the model.