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Recent years have witnessed the rapid progress of generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, the success of the GAN models hinges on a large amount of training data. This work proposes a regularization approach for training robust GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Hung-Yu Tseng , Lu Jiang , Ce Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Weilong Yang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been used to model the underlying probability distribution of sample based datasets. GANs are notoriuos for training difficulties and their dependence on arbitrary hyperparameters. One recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Thomas Pinetz , Daniel Soukup , Thomas Pock

We consider the maximum mean discrepancy ($\mathrm{MMD}$) GAN problem and propose a parametric kernelized gradient flow that mimics the min-max game in gradient regularized $\mathrm{MMD}$ GAN. We show that this flow provides a descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Youssef Mroueh , Truyen Nguyen

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), famous for the capability of learning complex underlying data distribution, are however known to be tricky in the training process, which would probably result in mode collapse or performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Dong Wang , Xiaoqian Qin , Fengyi Song , Li Cheng

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) nowadays are capable of producing images of incredible realism. One concern raised is whether the state-of-the-art GAN's learned distribution still suffers from mode collapse, and what to do if so.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zhenyu Wu , Zhaowen Wang , Ye Yuan , Jianming Zhang , Zhangyang Wang , Hailin Jin

We introduce a method to stabilize Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by defining the generator objective with respect to an unrolled optimization of the discriminator. This allows training to be adjusted between using the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Luke Metz , Ben Poole , David Pfau , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

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

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

Disentangled generative models map a latent code vector to a target space, while enforcing that a subset of the learned latent codes are interpretable and associated with distinct properties of the target distribution. Recent advances have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zinan Lin , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

A broad class of unsupervised deep learning methods such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) involve training of overparameterized models where the number of parameters of the model exceeds a certain threshold. A large body of work in…

In order to alleviate the notorious mode collapse phenomenon in generative adversarial networks (GANs), we propose a novel training method of GANs in which certain fake samples are considered as real ones during the training process. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Song Tao , Jia Wang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can implicitly learn rich distributions over images, audio, and data which are hard to model with an explicit likelihood. We present a practical Bayesian formulation for unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Yunus Saatchi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

The task of few-shot GAN adaptation aims to adapt a pre-trained GAN model to a small dataset with very few training images. While existing methods perform well when the dataset for pre-training is structurally similar to the target dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Vadim Sushko , Ruyu Wang , Juergen Gall

In this work, we propose a method for training distributed GAN with sequential temporary discriminators. Our proposed method tackles the challenge of training GAN in the federated learning manner: How to update the generator with a flow of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Hui Qu , Yikai Zhang , Qi Chang , Zhennan Yan , Chao Chen , Dimitris Metaxas

We present a theoretical analysis of the training process for a single-layer GAN fed by high-dimensional input data. The training dynamics of the proposed model at both microscopic and macroscopic scales can be exactly analyzed in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chuang Wang , Hong Hu , Yue M. Lu

We investigate the training and performance of generative adversarial networks using the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) as critic, termed MMD GANs. As our main theoretical contribution, we clarify the situation with bias in GAN loss…

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

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have received an upsurging interest since being proposed due to the high quality of the generated data. While achieving increasingly impressive results, the resource demands associated with the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shiwei Liu , Yuesong Tian , Tianlong Chen , Li Shen

Common measures of brain functional connectivity (FC) including covariance and correlation matrices are semi-positive definite (SPD) matrices residing on a cone-shape Riemannian manifold. Despite its remarkable success for Euclidean-valued…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yee-Fan Tan , Chee-Ming Ting , Fuad Noman , Raphaël C. -W. Phan , Hernando Ombao

This paper explains the math behind a generative adversarial network (GAN) model and why it is hard to be trained. Wasserstein GAN is intended to improve GANs' training by adopting a smooth metric for measuring the distance between two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Lilian Weng