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Neural samplers such as variational autoencoders (VAEs) or generative adversarial networks (GANs) approximate distributions by transforming samples from a simple random source---the latent space---to samples from a more complex distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-09 Nutan Chen , Alexej Klushyn , Richard Kurle , Xueyan Jiang , Justin Bayer , Patrick van der Smagt

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) while being very versatile in realistic image synthesis, still are sensitive to the input distribution. Given a set of data that has an imbalance in the distribution, the networks are susceptible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Shashank Sharma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Generative Adversarial Networks are notoriously challenging to train. The underlying minmax optimization is highly susceptible to the variance of the stochastic gradient and the rotational component of the associated game vector field. To…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-24 Tatjana Chavdarova , Matteo Pagliardini , Sebastian U. Stich , Francois Fleuret , Martin Jaggi

Dynamical formulations of optimal transport (OT) frame the task of comparing distributions as a variational problem which searches for a path between distributions minimizing a kinetic energy functional. In applications, it is frequently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a powerful approach for generative image modeling. However, GANs are notorious for their training instability, especially on large-scale, complex datasets. While the recent work of BigGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ting-Yun Chang , Chi-Jen Lu

Recent work has shown generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate highly realistic images, that are often indistinguishable (by humans) from real images. Most images so generated are not contained in the training dataset, suggesting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Miaoyun Zhao , Yulai Cong , Lawrence Carin

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have shown remarkable results in image generation tasks. High fidelity class-conditional GAN methods often rely on stabilization techniques by constraining the global Lipschitz continuity. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jiachen Zhong , Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Many existing conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) are limited to conditioning on pre-defined and fixed class-level semantic labels or attributes. We propose an open set GAN architecture (OpenGAN) that is conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Luke Ditria , Benjamin J. Meyer , Tom Drummond

We propose a unified signal compression framework that uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) to compress heterogeneous signals. The compressed signal is represented as a latent vector and fed into a generator network that is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Bowen Liu , Changwoo Lee , Ang Cao , Hun-Seok Kim

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

We develop a novel method for training of GANs for unsupervised and class conditional generation of images, called Linear Discriminant GAN (LD-GAN). The discriminator of an LD-GAN is trained to maximize the linear separability between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-26 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

We propose the Margin Adaptation for Generative Adversarial Networks (MAGANs) algorithm, a novel training procedure for GANs to improve stability and performance by using an adaptive hinge loss function. We estimate the appropriate hinge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Ruohan Wang , Antoine Cully , Hyung Jin Chang , Yiannis Demiris

Auto-encoding generative adversarial networks (GANs) combine the standard GAN algorithm, which discriminates between real and model-generated data, with a reconstruction loss given by an auto-encoder. Such models aim to prevent mode…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Mihaela Rosca , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , David Warde-Farley , Shakir Mohamed

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have a great performance in image generation, but they need a large scale of data to train the entire framework, and often result in nonsensical results. We propose a new method referring to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Jinxuan Sun , Guoqiang Zhong , Yang Chen , Yongbin Liu , Tao Li , Zhongwen Guo

We propose a training and evaluation approach for autoencoder Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), specifically the Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Network (BEGAN), based on methods from the image quality assessment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Michael O. Vertolli , Jim Davies

We investigate the semi-discrete Optimal Transport (OT) problem, where a continuous source measure $\mu$ is transported to a discrete target measure $\nu$, with particular attention to the OT map approximation. In this setting, Stochastic…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are neural networks that learn data distributions through adversarial training. In intensive studies, recent GANs have shown promising results for reproducing training images. However, in spite of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Takuhiro Kaneko , Tatsuya Harada

The generator in the generative adversarial network (GAN) learns image generation in a coarse-to-fine manner in which earlier layers learn the overall structure of the image and the latter ones refine the details. To propagate the coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Seung Park , Yong-Goo Shin

We deconstruct the performance of GANs into three components: 1. Formulation: we propose a perturbation view of the population target of GANs. Building on this interpretation, we show that GANs can be viewed as a generalization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Banghua Zhu , Jiantao Jiao , David Tse

Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown promising performance in generating realistic images. However, they often struggle in learning complex underlying modalities in a given dataset, resulting in poor-quality generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 David Keetae Park , Seungjoo Yoo , Hyojin Bahng , Jaegul Choo , Noseong Park