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In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have drawn a lot of attentions for learning the underlying distribution of data in various applications. Despite their wide applicability, training GANs is notoriously difficult. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Babak Barazandeh , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maziar Sanjabi

Generative adversarial networks are a novel method for statistical inference that have achieved much empirical success; however, the factors contributing to this success remain ill-understood. In this work, we attempt to analyze generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Shuang Liu , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Recently, more and more works have proposed to drive evolutionary algorithms using machine learning models.Usually, the performance of such model based evolutionary algorithms is highly dependent on the training qualities of the adopted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Cheng He , Shihua Huang , Ran Cheng , Kay Chen Tan , Yaochu Jin

Although GAN-based methods have received many achievements in the last few years, they have not been entirelysuccessful in generating discrete data. The most crucial challenge of these methods is the difficulty of passing the gradientfrom…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Ehsan Montahaei , Danial Alihosseini , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

We introduce a method to stabilize Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by defining the generator objective with respect to an unrolled optimization of the discriminator. This allows training to be adjusted between using the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Luke Metz , Ben Poole , David Pfau , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Anomaly detection is often considered a challenging field of machine learning due to the difficulty of obtaining anomalous samples for training and the need to obtain a sufficient amount of training data. In recent years, autoencoders have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Yotam Intrator , Gilad Katz , Asaf Shabtai

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants have recently attracted intensive research interests due to their elegant theoretical foundation and excellent empirical performance as generative models. These tools provide a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Liyang Xie , Kaixiang Lin , Shu Wang , Fei Wang , Jiayu Zhou

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been widely studied during the recent development of deep learning and unsupervised learning. With an adversarial training mechanism, GAN manages to train a generative model to fit the underlying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Weinan Zhang

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) require flexible probability models that can be efficiently learned and sampled. Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are generative neural networks which can be trained to implicitly model the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Malte Probst

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) form a generative modeling approach known for producing appealing samples, but they are notably difficult to train. One common way to tackle this issue has been to propose new formulations of the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Gauthier Gidel , Hugo Berard , Gaëtan Vignoud , Pascal Vincent , Simon Lacoste-Julien

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

Recently, increasing works have proposed to drive evolutionary algorithms using machine learning models. Usually, the performance of such model based evolutionary algorithms is highly dependent on the training qualities of the adopted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Cheng He , Shihua Huang , Ran Cheng , Kay Chen Tan , Yaochu Jin

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been promising in the field of image generation, however, they have been hard to train for language generation. GANs were originally designed to output differentiable values, so discrete language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Mehrad Moradshahi , Utkarsh Contractor

Although Generative Adversarial Networks achieve state-of-the-art results on a variety of generative tasks, they are regarded as highly unstable and prone to miss modes. We argue that these bad behaviors of GANs are due to the very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Tong Che , Yanran Li , Athul Paul Jacob , Yoshua Bengio , Wenjie Li

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a powerful approach to unsupervised learning. They have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the image domain. However, GANs are limited in two ways. They often learn distributions with low…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei , Michalis K. Titsias

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a way to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. They achieve this through deriving backpropagation signals through a competitive process involving a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Antonia Creswell , Tom White , Vincent Dumoulin , Kai Arulkumaran , Biswa Sengupta , Anil A Bharath

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), as a framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process, have attracted huge attention and have proven to be powerful in a variety of tasks. However, training GANs is well known for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Zi-Yi Dou

Generative Adversarial Networks have surprising ability for generating sharp and realistic images, though they are known to suffer from the so-called mode collapse problem. In this paper, we propose a new GAN variant called Mixture Density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Werner Zellinger , Gerhard Widmer

In this paper, we present a simple approach to train Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in order to avoid a \textit {mode collapse} issue. Implicit models such as GANs tend to generate better samples compared to explicit models that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

The difficulty in obtaining labeled data relevant to a given task is among the most common and well-known practical obstacles to applying deep learning techniques to new or even slightly modified domains. The data volumes required by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jonathan Howe , Kyle Pula , Aaron A. Reite