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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been extremely effective in approximating complex distributions of high-dimensional, input data samples, and substantial progress has been made in understanding and improving GAN performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Daniel Jiwoong Im , He Ma , Graham Taylor , Kristin Branson

We introduce a new algorithm named WGAN, an alternative to traditional GAN training. In this new model, we show that we can improve the stability of learning, get rid of problems like mode collapse, and provide meaningful learning curves…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-08 Martin Arjovsky , Soumith Chintala , Léon Bottou

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are an exciting alternative to algorithms for solving density estimation problems---using data to assess how likely samples are to be drawn from the same distribution. Instead of explicitly computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Christopher Grimm , Yuhang Song , Michael L. Littman

The empirical success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) caused an increasing interest in theoretical research. The statistical literature is mainly focused on Wasserstein GANs and generalizations thereof, which especially allow for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Lea Kunkel , Mathias Trabs

In this paper, we investigate the underlying factor that leads to failure and success in the training of GANs. We study the property of the optimal discriminative function and show that in many GANs, the gradient from the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Zhiming Zhou , Yuxuan Song , Lantao Yu , Hongwei Wang , Jiadong Liang , Weinan Zhang , Zhihua Zhang , Yong Yu

Studied here are Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (WGANs) with GroupSort neural networks as their discriminators. It is shown that the error bound of the approximation for the target distribution depends on the width and depth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yihang Gao , Michael K. Ng , Mingjie Zhou

The Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated impressive performance for data synthesis, and are now used in a wide range of computer vision tasks. In spite of this success, they gained a reputation for being difficult to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-07 Tatjana Chavdarova , François Fleuret

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce high-quality images but are challenging to train. They need careful regularization, vast amounts of compute, and expensive hyper-parameter sweeps. We make significant headway on these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Axel Sauer , Kashyap Chitta , Jens Müller , Andreas Geiger

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved a great success in unsupervised learning. Despite its remarkable empirical performance, there are limited theoretical studies on the statistical properties of GANs. This paper provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Minshuo Chen , Wenjing Liao , Hongyuan Zha , Tuo Zhao

Network embedding has become a hot research topic recently which can provide low-dimensional feature representations for many machine learning applications. Current work focuses on either (1) whether the embedding is designed as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Huiting Hong , Xin Li , Mingzhong Wang

Recent work has shown local convergence of GAN training for absolutely continuous data and generator distributions. In this paper, we show that the requirement of absolute continuity is necessary: we describe a simple yet prototypical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Lars Mescheder , Andreas Geiger , Sebastian Nowozin

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated their versatility across various applications, including data augmentation and malware detection. This research explores the effectiveness of utilizing GAN-generated data to train a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Kawana Stalin , Mikias Berhanu Mekoya

Since their invention, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have become a popular approach for learning to model a distribution of real (unlabeled) data. Convergence problems during training are overcome by Wasserstein GANs which minimize…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Henning Petzka , Asja Fischer , Denis Lukovnicov

In this paper, we introduce a new CT image denoising method based on the generative adversarial network (GAN) with Wasserstein distance and perceptual similarity. The Wasserstein distance is a key concept of the optimal transform theory,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Qingsong Yang , Pingkun Yan , Yanbo Zhang , Hengyong Yu , Yongyi Shi , Xuanqin Mou , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

Wasserstein GAN(WGAN) is a model that minimizes the Wasserstein distance between a data distribution and sample distribution. Recent studies have proposed stabilizing the training process for the WGAN and implementing the Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Cheolhyeong Kim , Seungtae Park , Hyung Ju Hwang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn enormous attention due to the simple yet effective training mechanism and superior image generation quality. With the ability to generate photo-realistic high-resolution (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ming Liu , Yuxiang Wei , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Obtaining reliable data describing local poverty metrics at a granularity that is informative to policy-makers requires expensive and logistically difficult surveys, particularly in the developing world. Not surprisingly, the poverty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Anthony Perez , Swetava Ganguli , Stefano Ermon , George Azzari , Marshall Burke , David Lobell

Image super-resolution is important in many fields, such as surveillance and remote sensing. However, infrared (IR) images normally have low resolution since the optical equipment is relatively expensive. Recently, deep learning methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Yongsong Huang , Zetao Jiang , Qingzhong Wang , Qi Jiang , Guoming Pang

The impressive success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is often overshadowed by the difficulties in their training. Despite the continuous efforts and improvements, there are still open issues regarding their convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Yannis Pantazis , Dipjyoti Paul , Michail Fasoulakis , Yannis Stylianou

We introduce a new method for training generative adversarial networks by applying the Wasserstein-2 metric proximal on the generators. The approach is based on Wasserstein information geometry. It defines a parametrization invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Alex Tong Lin , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Guido Montufar