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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable results in the task of generating realistic natural images. In most successful applications, GAN models share two common aspects: solving a challenging saddle point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , David Lopez-Paz , Arthur Szlam

Many applications in machine learning can be framed as minimization problems and solved efficiently using gradient-based techniques. However, recent applications of generative models, particularly GANs, have triggered interest in solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Paulina Grnarova , Yannic Kilcher , Kfir Y. Levy , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Training deep neural networks is a highly nontrivial task, involving carefully selecting appropriate training algorithms, scheduling step sizes and tuning other hyperparameters. Trying different combinations can be quite labor-intensive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Kaifeng Lv , Shunhua Jiang , Jian Li

We present an alternative perspective on the training of generative adversarial networks (GANs), showing that the training step for a GAN generator decomposes into two implicit subproblems. In the first, the discriminator provides new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Romann M. Weber

Deep generative models (DGMs) are effective on learning multilayered representations of complex data and performing inference of input data by exploring the generative ability. However, it is relatively insufficient to empower the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

The field of meta-learning has seen a dramatic rise in interest in recent years. In existing meta-learning approaches, learning tasks for training meta-models are usually collected from public datasets, which brings the difficulty of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zhaoyang Hai , Xiabi Liu , Yuchen Ren , Nouman Q. Soomro

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown great success in applications such as image generation and inpainting. However, they typically require large datasets, which are often not available, especially in the context of prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of generative models, known for producing accurate samples. The key feature of GANs is that there are two antagonistic neural networks: the generator and the discriminator. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Barbara Franci , Sergio Grammatico

The maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) is a kernel-based distance between probability distributions useful in many applications (Gretton et al. 2012), bearing a simple estimator with pleasing computational and statistical properties. Being able…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-16 Danica J. Sutherland , Namrata Deka

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to inputs. Recently different attacks and strategies have been proposed, but how to generate adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Tao Bai , Jun Zhao , Jinlin Zhu , Shoudong Han , Jiefeng Chen , Bo Li , Alex Kot

Training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) remains a challenging problem. The discriminator trains the generator by learning the distribution of real/generated data. However, the distribution of generated data changes throughout the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Wentian Zhang , Haozhe Liu , Bing Li , Jinheng Xie , Yawen Huang , Yuexiang Li , Yefeng Zheng , Bernard Ghanem

Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) is a widely used concept in machine learning research which has gained popularity in recent years as a highly effective tool for comparing (finite-dimensional) distributions. Since it is designed as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Andrew Alden , Blanka Horvath , Zacharia Issa

Generative Adversarial Networks have shown remarkable success in learning a distribution that faithfully recovers a reference distribution in its entirety. However, in some cases, we may want to only learn some aspects (e.g., cluster or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Charlotte Bunne , David Alvarez-Melis , Andreas Krause , Stefanie Jegelka

We present a novel training framework for neural sequence models, particularly for grounded dialog generation. The standard training paradigm for these models is maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), or minimizing the cross-entropy of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jiasen Lu , Anitha Kannan , Jianwei Yang , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can successfully approximate a probability distribution and produce realistic samples. However, open questions such as sufficient convergence conditions and mode collapse still persist. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Thang Doan , Joao Monteiro , Isabela Albuquerque , Bogdan Mazoure , Audrey Durand , Joelle Pineau , R Devon Hjelm

Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown promising performance in generating realistic images. However, they often struggle in learning complex underlying modalities in a given dataset, resulting in poor-quality generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 David Keetae Park , Seungjoo Yoo , Hyojin Bahng , Jaegul Choo , Noseong Park

The success of large generative models has driven a paradigm shift, leveraging massive multi-source data to enhance model capabilities. However, the interaction among these sources remains theoretically underexplored. This paper takes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Rongzhen Wang , Yan Zhang , Chenyu Zheng , Chongxuan Li , Guoqiang Wu

In this article, we study the problem of high-dimensional conditional independence testing, a key building block in statistics and machine learning. We propose an inferential procedure based on double generative adversarial networks (GANs).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Chengchun Shi , Tianlin Xu , Wicher Bergsma , Lexin Li

We are interested in the design of generative networks. The training of these mathematical structures is mostly performed with the help of adversarial (min-max) optimization problems. We propose a simple methodology for constructing such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Kalliopi Basioti , George V. Moustakides

Kernel embeddings of distributions and the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), the resulting distance between distributions, are useful tools for fully nonparametric two-sample testing and learning on distributions. However, it is rarely that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Ho Chung Leon Law , Christopher Yau , Dino Sejdinovic