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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great promise in modeling high dimensional data. The learning objective of GANs usually minimizes some measure discrepancy, \textit{e.g.}, $f$-divergence~($f$-GANs) or Integral Probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Yuxuan Song , Qiwei Ye , Minkai Xu , Tie-Yan Liu

We introduce Kernel Density Discrimination GAN (KDD GAN), a novel method for generative adversarial learning. KDD GAN formulates the training as a likelihood ratio optimization problem where the data distributions are written explicitly via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Abdelhak Lemkhenter , Adam Bielski , Alp Eren Sari , Paolo Favaro

We study minimax convergence rates of nonparametric density estimation under a large class of loss functions called "adversarial losses", which, besides classical $\mathcal{L}^p$ losses, includes maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), Wasserstein…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Shashank Singh , Ananya Uppal , Boyue Li , Chun-Liang Li , Manzil Zaheer , Barnabás Póczos

We propose a principled method for gradient-based regularization of the critic of GAN-like models trained by adversarially optimizing the kernel of a Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). We show that controlling the gradient of the critic is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Michael Arbel , Danica J. Sutherland , Mikołaj Bińkowski , Arthur Gretton

This paper studies how well generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn probability distributions from finite samples. Our main results establish the convergence rates of GANs under a collection of integral probability metrics defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Zhen Li , Shiao Liu , Yang Wang , Yunfei Yang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are unsupervised learning methods for training a generator distribution to produce samples that approximate those drawn from a target distribution. Many such methods can be formulated as minimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Jeremiah Birrell

In this paper, we investigate the training process of generative networks that use a type of probability density distance named particle-based distance as the objective function, e.g. MMD GAN, Cram\'er GAN, EIEG GAN. However, these GANs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Chuqi Chen , Yue Wu , Yang Xiang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been successful in producing outstanding results in areas as diverse as image, video, and text generation. Building on these successes, a large number of empirical studies have validated the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Gérard Biau , Maxime Sangnier , Ugo Tanielian

A recent technical breakthrough in the domain of machine learning is the discovery and the multiple applications of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Those generative models are computationally demanding, as a GAN is composed of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Corentin Hardy , Erwan Le Merrer , Bruno Sericola

Generative models have been successfully used for generating realistic signals. Because the likelihood function is typically intractable in most of these models, the common practice is to use "implicit" models that avoid likelihood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Itai Alon , Amir Globerson , Ami Wiesel

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

We train a generator by maximum likelihood and we also train the same generator architecture by Wasserstein GAN. We then compare the generated samples, exact log-probability densities and approximate Wasserstein distances. We show that an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Ivo Danihelka , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Benigno Uria , Daan Wierstra , Peter Dayan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a widely-used tool for generative modeling of complex data. Despite their empirical success, the training of GANs is not fully understood due to the min-max optimization of the generator and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Evan Becker , Parthe Pandit , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher

Generative-adversarial networks (GANs) have been used to produce data closely resembling example data in a compressed, latent space that is close to sufficient for reconstruction in the original vector space. The Wasserstein metric has been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-10 Oliver Serang

In this paper, we propose CKGAN, a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) variant based on an integral probability metrics framework with characteristic kernel (CKIPM). CKIPM, as a distance between two probability distributions, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Kuntian Zhang , Simin Yu , Yaoshu Wang , Makoto Onizuka , Chuan Xiao

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made great progress in synthesizing realistic images in recent years. However, they are often trained on image datasets with either too few samples or too many classes belonging to different data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Shichang Tang

In terms of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), the information metric to discriminate the generative data from the real data, lies in the key point of generation efficiency, which plays an important role in GAN-based applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Rui She , Pingyi Fan

In this paper, we propose a novel loss function for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) aiming towards deeper theoretical understanding as well as improved stability and performance for the underlying optimization problem. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yannis Pantazis , Dipjyoti Paul , Michail Fasoulakis , Yannis Stylianou , Markos Katsoulakis

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have received a tremendous amount of attention in the past few years, and have inspired applications addressing a wide range of problems. Despite its great potential, GANs are difficult to train.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Zhimin Chen , Yuguang Tong

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a machine learning framework comprising a generative model for sampling from a target distribution and a discriminative model for evaluating the proximity of a sample to the target distribution.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Daniel Herr , Benjamin Obert , Matthias Rosenkranz