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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are innovative techniques for learning generative models of complex data distributions from samples. Despite remarkable recent improvements in generating realistic images, one of their major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Zinan Lin , Ashish Khetan , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

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) are susceptible to bias, learned from either the unbalanced data, or through mode collapse. The networks focus on the core of the data distribution, leaving the tails - or the edges of the distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Yunzhe Liu , Rinon Gal , Amit H. Bermano , Baoquan Chen , Daniel Cohen-Or

We introduce the adversarially learned inference (ALI) model, which jointly learns a generation network and an inference network using an adversarial process. The generation network maps samples from stochastic latent variables to the data…

Soft sensing infers hard-to-measure data through a large number of easily obtainable variables. However, in complex industrial scenarios, the issue of insufficient data volume persists, which diminishes the reliability of soft sensing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zesen Wang , Yonggang Li , Lijuan Lan

Anomaly detection has become an indispensable tool for modern society, applied in a wide range of applications, from detecting fraudulent transactions to malignant brain tumours. Over time, many anomaly detection techniques have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mikael Sabuhi , Ming Zhou , Cor-Paul Bezemer , Petr Musilek

This paper studies the rates of convergence for learning distributions implicitly with the adversarial framework and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), which subsume Wasserstein, Sobolev, MMD GAN, and Generalized/Simulated Method of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Tengyuan Liang

Modern scientific research and applications very often encounter "fragmentary data" which brings big challenges to imputation and prediction. By leveraging the structure of response patterns, we propose a unified and flexible framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Fang Fang , Shenliao Bao

Learning disentangled and interpretable representations is an important step towards accomplishing comprehensive data representations on the manifold. In this paper, we propose a novel representation learning algorithm which combines the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Fei Ye , Adrian G. Bors

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown considerable success, especially in the realistic generation of images. In this work, we apply similar techniques for the generation of text. We propose a novel approach to handle the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Akshay Budhkar , Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla , Safwan Hossain , Frank Rudzicz

In this paper, we propose the "adversarial autoencoder" (AAE), which is a probabilistic autoencoder that uses the recently proposed generative adversarial networks (GAN) to perform variational inference by matching the aggregated posterior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Alireza Makhzani , Jonathon Shlens , Navdeep Jaitly , Ian Goodfellow , Brendan Frey

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is an adversarial model, and it has been demonstrated to be effective for various generative tasks. However, GAN and its variants also suffer from many training problems, such as mode collapse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Junjie Li , Junwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Gong , Shuai Lü

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are very popular frameworks for generating high-quality data, and are immensely used in both the academia and industry in many domains. Arguably, their most substantial impact has been in the area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Gilad Cohen , Raja Giryes

Anyone can take a photo, but not everybody has the ability to retouch their pictures and obtain result close to professional. Since it is not possible to ask experts to retouch thousands of pictures, we thought about teaching a piece of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Marc Bickel , Samuel Dubuis , Sébastien Gachoud

In this work we demonstrate that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to generate realistic pervasive changes in remote sensing imagery, even in an unpaired training setting. We investigate some transformation quality metrics…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Christopher X. Ren , Amanda Ziemann , James Theiler , Alice M. S. Durieux

Tuning curves characterizing the response selectivities of biological neurons often exhibit large degrees of irregularity and diversity across neurons. Theoretical network models that feature heterogeneous cell populations or random…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-20 Takafumi Arakaki , G. Barello , Yashar Ahmadian

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) offer an effective solution to the image-to-image translation problem, thereby allowing for new possibilities in medical imaging. They can translate images from one imaging modality to another at a low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Agnieszka Tomczak , Aarushi Gupta , Slobodan Ilic , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) has gained tremendous popularity lately due to an ability to reinforce quality of its predictive model with generated objects and the quality of the generative model with and supervised feedback. GANs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Evgeny Zamyatin , Andrey Filchenkov

In the absence of explicit or tractable likelihoods, Bayesians often resort to approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) for inference. Our work bridges ABC with deep neural implicit samplers based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-18 Yuexi Wang , Veronika Ročková

This paper presents a novel concept learning framework for enhancing model interpretability and performance in visual classification tasks. Our approach appends an unsupervised explanation generator to the primary classifier network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Tanmay Garg , Deepika Vemuri , Vineeth N Balasubramanian