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In generative modeling, the Wasserstein distance (WD) has emerged as a useful metric to measure the discrepancy between generated and real data distributions. Unfortunately, it is challenging to approximate the WD of high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Jiqing Wu , Zhiwu Huang , Dinesh Acharya , Wen Li , Janine Thoma , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

In generative modeling, the Wasserstein distance (WD) has emerged as a useful metric to measure the discrepancy between generated and real data distributions. Unfortunately, it is challenging to approximate the WD of high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Jiqing Wu , Zhiwu Huang , Dinesh Acharya , Wen Li , Janine Thoma , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Two geometrical structures have been extensively studied for a manifold of probability distributions. One is based on the Fisher information metric, which is invariant under reversible transformations of random variables, while the other is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-02 Shun-ichi Amari , Ryo Karakida , Masafumi Oizumi

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

In this work, we propose a novel generalized Wasserstein-2 distance approach for efficiently training stochastic neural networks to reconstruct random field models, where the target random variable comprises both continuous and categorical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mingtao Xia , Qijing Shen

This paper provides a simple procedure to fit generative networks to target distributions, with the goal of a small Wasserstein distance (or other optimal transport costs). The approach is based on two principles: (a) if the source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yucheng Chen , Matus Telgarsky , Chao Zhang , Bolton Bailey , Daniel Hsu , Jian Peng

One of the main challenges in the parametrization of geological models is the ability to capture complex geological structures often observed in the subsurface. In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GAN) were proposed as an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-10 Shing Chan , Ahmed H. Elsheikh

We provide non asymptotic rates of convergence of the Wasserstein Generative Adversarial networks (WGAN) estimator. We build neural networks classes representing the generators and discriminators which yield a GAN that achieves the minimax…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Arthur Stéphanovitch , Eddie Aamari , Clément Levrard

This paper studies the optimization of the KL functional on the Wasserstein space of probability measures, and develops a sampling framework based on Wasserstein gradient descent (WGD). We identify two important subclasses of the…

Computation · Statistics 2026-02-04 Van Chien Ta , Thi Mai Hong Chu , Minh-Ngoc Tran

Many variants of the Wasserstein distance have been introduced to reduce its original computational burden. In particular the Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW), which leverages one-dimensional projections for which a closed-form solution of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-31 Clément Bonet , Paul Berg , Nicolas Courty , François Septier , Lucas Drumetz , Minh-Tan Pham

The ability to align points across two related yet incomparable point clouds (e.g. living in different spaces) plays an important role in machine learning. The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) framework provides an increasingly popular answer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Meyer Scetbon , Gabriel Peyré , Marco Cuturi

We propose a novel online test generation algorithm WOGAN based on Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks. WOGAN is a general-purpose black-box test generator applicable to any system under test having a fitness function for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jarkko Peltomäki , Frankie Spencer , Ivan Porres

Designing experiments that systematically gather data from complex physical systems is central to accelerating scientific discovery. While Bayesian experimental design (BED) provides a principled, information-based framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Huchen Yang , Xinghao Dong , Jin-Long Wu

One of the most promising ways to observe the Universe is by detecting the 21cm emission from cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI) through radio-telescopes. Those observations can shed light on fundamental astrophysical questions only if accurate…

Lack of ground-truth MR images impedes the common supervised training of neural networks for image reconstruction. To cope with this challenge, this paper leverages unpaired adversarial training for reconstruction networks, where the inputs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-14 Ke Lei , Morteza Mardani , John M. Pauly , Shreyas S. Vasanawala

While many Machine Learning methods were developed or transposed on Riemannian manifolds to tackle data with known non Euclidean geometry, Optimal Transport (OT) methods on such spaces have not received much attention. The main OT tool on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Clément Bonet , Lucas Drumetz , Nicolas Courty

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

It is well-known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to adversarial attacks, exposing a severe fragility of deep learning systems. As the result, adversarial training (AT) method, by incorporating adversarial examples during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Tuan Anh Bui , Trung Le , Quan Tran , He Zhao , Dinh Phung

Despite the remarkable empirical successes of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), the theoretical guarantees for their statistical accuracy remain rather pessimistic. In particular, the data distributions on which GANs are applied, such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-17 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Peter L. Bartlett

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely adopted in various fields. However, existing GANs generally are not able to preserve the manifold of data space, mainly due to the simple representation of discriminator for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Haozhe Liu , Hanbang Liang , Xianxu Hou , Haoqian Wu , Feng Liu , Linlin Shen