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We investigate the impact of the input dimension on the generalization error in generative adversarial networks (GANs). In particular, we first provide both theoretical and practical evidence to validate the existence of an optimal input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhiyao Tan , Ling Zhou , Huazhen Lin

We present a simple method for assessing the quality of generated images in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The method can be applied in any kind of GAN without interfering with the learning procedure or affecting the learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

We present an alternative perspective on the training of generative adversarial networks (GANs), showing that the training step for a GAN generator decomposes into two implicit subproblems. In the first, the discriminator provides new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Romann M. Weber

Generative adversarial networks have achieved remarkable performance on various tasks but suffer from training instability. Despite many training strategies proposed to improve training stability, this issue remains as a challenge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Faqiang Liu , Mingkun Xu , Guoqi Li , Jing Pei , Luping Shi , Rong Zhao

In this paper we propose a conditioning trick, called difference departure from normality, applied on the generator network in response to instability issues during GAN training. We force the generator to get closer to the departure from…

Since their inception Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been popular generative models across images, audio, video, and tabular data. In this paper we study whether given access to a trained GAN, as well as fresh samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Lukman Olagoke , Salil Vadhan , Seth Neel

Leveraging the power of deep learning to design nanophotonic devices has been an area of active research in recent times, with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) being a popular choice alongside autoencoder-based methods. However, both…

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful generative models, but suffer from training instability. The recently proposed Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) makes progress toward stable training of GANs, but sometimes can still generate only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Ishaan Gulrajani , Faruk Ahmed , Martin Arjovsky , Vincent Dumoulin , Aaron Courville

Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to generate impressive photo-realistic images. However, controllable generation with GANs remains a challenging research problem. Achieving controllable generation requires semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Grigorios G Chrysos , Jean Kossaifi , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gained a lot of attention from machine learning community due to their ability to learn and mimic an input data distribution. GANs consist of a discriminator and a generator working in tandem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Saurabh Sahu , Rahul Gupta , Carol Espy-Wilson

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a powerful framework for deep generative modeling. Posed as a two-player minimax problem, GANs are typically trained end-to-end on real-valued data and can be used to train a generator of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Anirudh Goyal , Nan Rosemary Ke , Alex Lamb , R Devon Hjelm , Chris Pal , Joelle Pineau , Yoshua Bengio

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

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

We study the GAN conditioning problem, whose goal is to convert a pretrained unconditional GAN into a conditional GAN using labeled data. We first identify and analyze three approaches to this problem -- conditional GAN training from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Tuan Dinh , Daewon Seo , Zhixu Du , Liang Shang , Kangwook Lee

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce high-quality images but are challenging to train. They need careful regularization, vast amounts of compute, and expensive hyper-parameter sweeps. We make significant headway on these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Axel Sauer , Kashyap Chitta , Jens Müller , Andreas Geiger

The standard practice in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) discards the discriminator during sampling. However, this sampling method loses valuable information learned by the discriminator regarding the data distribution. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yuejiang Liu , Parth Kothari , Alexandre Alahi

Softmax GAN is a novel variant of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). The key idea of Softmax GAN is to replace the classification loss in the original GAN with a softmax cross-entropy loss in the sample space of one single batch. In the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Min Lin

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn a target probability distribution by optimizing a generator and a discriminator with minimax objectives. This paper addresses the question of whether such optimization actually provides the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yuhta Takida , Masaaki Imaizumi , Takashi Shibuya , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Naoki Murata , Yuki Mitsufuji

Generative models are undoubtedly a hot topic in Artificial Intelligence, among which the most common type is Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). These architectures let one synthesise artificial datasets by implicitly modelling the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Francisco J. Ibarrola , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F. Frangi

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