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Although GAN-based methods have received many achievements in the last few years, they have not been entirelysuccessful in generating discrete data. The most crucial challenge of these methods is the difficulty of passing the gradientfrom…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Ehsan Montahaei , Danial Alihosseini , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

This paper considers the general $f$-divergence formulation of bidirectional generative modeling, which includes VAE and BiGAN as special cases. We present a new optimization method for this formulation, where the gradient is computed using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Xinwei Shen , Tong Zhang , Kani Chen

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a learning framework that rely on training a discriminator to estimate a measure of difference between a target and generated distributions. GANs, as normally formulated, rely on the generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-23 R Devon Hjelm , Athul Paul Jacob , Tong Che , Adam Trischler , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Deep generative models can learn to generate realistic-looking images, but many of the most effective methods are adversarial and involve a saddlepoint optimization, which requires a careful balancing of training between a generator network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-18 Akash Srivastava , Kai Xu , Michael U. Gutmann , Charles Sutton

We propose a new framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process, in which we simultaneously train two models: a generative model G that captures the data distribution, and a discriminative model D that estimates the…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), a class of distribution-learning methods based on a two-player game between a generator and a discriminator, can generally be formulated as a minmax problem based on the variational representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jeremiah Birrell , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Wei Zhu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are widely used models to learn complex real-world distributions. In GANs, the training of the generator usually stops when the discriminator can no longer distinguish the generator's output from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Yuanzhi Li , Zehao Dou

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are pow- erful generative models based on providing feed- back to a generative network via a discriminator network. However, the discriminator usually as- sesses individual samples. This prevents the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Thomas Lucas , Corentin Tallec , Jakob Verbeek , Yann Ollivier

This paper introduces a promising alternative method for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on large-scale datasets with clear theoretical guarantees. GANs are typically learned through a minimax game between a generator and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chang Wan , Ke Fan , Xinwei Sun , Yanwei Fu , Minglu Li , Yunliang Jiang , Zhonglong Zheng

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a way to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. They achieve this through deriving backpropagation signals through a competitive process involving a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Antonia Creswell , Tom White , Vincent Dumoulin , Kai Arulkumaran , Biswa Sengupta , Anil A Bharath

This paper studies generative adversarial networks (GANs) from the perspective of statistical inference. A GAN is a popular machine learning method in which the parameters of two neural networks, a generator and a discriminator, are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Mika Meitz

In this work, we present GAROM, a new approach for reduced order modelling (ROM) based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). GANs have the potential to learn data distribution and generate more realistic data. While widely applied in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Dario Coscia , Nicola Demo , Gianluigi Rozza

Deep neural networks have been shown to perform well in many classical machine learning problems, especially in image classification tasks. However, researchers have found that neural networks can be easily fooled, and they are surprisingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Huaxia Wang , Chun-Nam Yu

While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are fundamental to many generative modelling applications, they suffer from numerous issues. In this work, we propose a principled framework to simultaneously mitigate two fundamental issues in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Kwot Sin Lee , Ngoc-Trung Tran , Ngai-Man Cheung

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful framework for learning to draw samples from complex distributions. However, GANs are also notoriously difficult to train, with mode collapse and oscillations a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-28 Kevin J Liang , Chunyuan Li , Guoyin Wang , Lawrence Carin

We propose a method to train generative adversarial networks on mutivariate feature vectors representing multiple categorical values. In contrast to the continuous domain, where GAN-based methods have delivered considerable results, GANs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-05 Ramiro Camino , Christian Hammerschmidt , Radu State

Generative Adversarial Networks (Goodfellow et al., 2014), a major breakthrough in the field of generative modeling, learn a discriminator to estimate some distance between the target and the candidate distributions. This paper examines…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-27 Victor Berger , Michèle Sebag

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown considerable success, especially in the realistic generation of images. In this work, we apply similar techniques for the generation of text. We propose a novel approach to handle the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Akshay Budhkar , Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla , Safwan Hossain , Frank Rudzicz

We introduce adversarial learning methods for data-driven generative modeling of the dynamics of $n^{th}$-order stochastic systems. Our approach builds on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with generative model classes based on stable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Panos Stinis , Constantinos Daskalakis , Paul J. Atzberger

Generative neural samplers are probabilistic models that implement sampling using feedforward neural networks: they take a random input vector and produce a sample from a probability distribution defined by the network weights. These models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-03 Sebastian Nowozin , Botond Cseke , Ryota Tomioka