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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful Machine Learning models capable of generating fully synthetic samples of a desired phenomenon with a high resolution. Despite their success, the training process of a GAN is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ángel González-Prieto , Alberto Mozo , Edgar Talavera , Sandra Gómez-Canaval

Non-saturating generative adversarial network (GAN) training is widely used and has continued to obtain groundbreaking results. However so far this approach has lacked strong theoretical justification, in contrast to alternatives such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Matt Shannon , Ben Poole , Soroosh Mariooryad , Tom Bagby , Eric Battenberg , David Kao , Daisy Stanton , RJ Skerry-Ryan

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) was recently introduced in the literature as a novel machine learning method for training generative models. It has many applications in statistics such as nonparametric clustering and nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-26 Sehwan Kim , Qifan Song , Faming Liang

We propose two new techniques for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Our objectives are to alleviate mode collapse in GAN and improve the quality of the generated samples. First, we propose neighbor embedding, a manifold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Tuan-Anh Bui , Ngai-Man Cheung

We propose a stable, parallel approach to train Wasserstein Conditional Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (W-CGANs) under the constraint of a fixed computational budget. Differently from previous distributed GANs training techniques,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Junqi Yin

Optimizing the discriminator in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to completion in the inner training loop is computationally prohibitive, and on finite datasets would result in overfitting. To address this, a common update strategy is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Xu Ouyang , Gady Agam

In an effort to address the training instabilities of GANs, we introduce a class of dual-objective GANs with different value functions (objectives) for the generator (G) and discriminator (D). In particular, we model each objective using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Monica Welfert , Kyle Otstot , Gowtham R. Kurri , Lalitha Sankar

A generative adversarial network (GAN) has been a representative backbone model in generative artificial intelligence (AI) because of its powerful performance in capturing intricate data-generating processes. However, the GAN training is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-21 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are trained to generate sample images of interest distribution. To this end, generator network of GAN learns implicit distribution of real data set from the classification with candidate generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Gahye Lee , Seungkyu Lee

Despite success on a wide range of problems related to vision, generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffer from inferior performance due to unstable training, especially for text generation. To solve this issue, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yue Wu , Pan Zhou , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a novel approach to generative modelling, a task whose goal it is to learn a distribution of real data points. They have often proved difficult to train: GANs are unlike many techniques in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Samuel A. Barnett

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a type of generative model which have received much attention due to their ability to model complex real-world data. Despite their recent successes, the process of training GANs remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Maciej Wiatrak , Stefano V. Albrecht , Andrew Nystrom

The instability of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) training has frequently been attributed to gradient descent. Consequently, recent methods have aimed to tailor the models and training procedures to stabilise the discrete updates. In…

Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) is known to be difficult, especially for financial time series. This paper first analyzes the well-posedness problem in GANs minimax games and the convexity issue in GANs objective functions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-28 Othmane Mounjid , Xin Guo

We propose a stable method to train Wasserstein generative adversarial networks. In order to enhance stability, we consider two objective functions using the $c$-transform based on Kantorovich duality which arises in the theory of optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Dohyun Kwon , Yeoneung Kim , Guido Montúfar , Insoon Yang

Adversarial training methods typically align distributions by solving two-player games. However, in most current formulations, even if the generator aligns perfectly with data, a sub-optimal discriminator can still drive the two apart.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Shangyuan Tong , Timur Garipov , Tommi Jaakkola

GANs excel at learning high dimensional distributions, but they can update generator parameters in directions that do not correspond to the steepest descent direction of the objective. Prominent examples of problematic update directions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Calvin Seward , Thomas Unterthiner , Urs Bergmann , Nikolay Jetchev , Sepp Hochreiter

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the most popular image generation models that have achieved remarkable progress on various computer vision tasks. However, training instability is still one of the open problems for all GAN-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Ziqiang Li , Pengfei Xia , Rentuo Tao , Hongjing Niu , Bin Li

This paper demonstrates the robustness of Lipschitz-regularized $\alpha$-divergences as objective functionals in generative modeling, showing they enable stable learning across a wide range of target distributions with minimal assumptions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Ziyu Chen , Hyemin Gu , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Wei Zhu

In many domains of computer vision, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved great success, among which the family of Wasserstein GANs (WGANs) is considered to be state-of-the-art due to the theoretical contributions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Jiqing Wu , Zhiwu Huang , Janine Thoma , Dinesh Acharya , Luc Van Gool