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We propose a discrete latent distribution for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Instead of drawing latent vectors from a continuous prior, we sample from a finite set of learnable latents. However, a direct parametrization of such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Evangelos Ntavelis , Mohamad Shahbazi , Iason Kastanis , Radu Timofte , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool

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

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a family of generative models that do not minimize a single training criterion. Unlike other generative models, the data distribution is learned via a game between a generator (the generative…

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are commonly used for modeling complex distributions of data. Both the generators and discriminators of GANs are often modeled by neural networks, posing a non-transparent optimization problem which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Arda Sahiner , Tolga Ergen , Batu Ozturkler , Burak Bartan , John Pauly , Morteza Mardani , Mert Pilanci

We provide statistical theory for conditional and unconditional Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (WGANs) in the framework of dependent observations. We prove upper bounds for the excess Bayes risk of the WGAN estimators with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Moritz Haas , Stefan Richter

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a widely-used tool for generative modeling of complex data. Despite their empirical success, the training of GANs is not fully understood due to the min-max optimization of the generator and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Evan Becker , Parthe Pandit , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher

High-resolution (HR) precipitation prediction is essential for reducing damage from stationary and localized heavy rainfall; however, HR precipitation forecasts using process-driven numerical weather prediction models remains challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kenta Shiraishi , Yuka Muto , Atsushi Okazaki , Shunji Kotsuki

Despite continuous improvements, precipitation forecasts are still not as accurate and reliable as those of other meteorological variables. A major contributing factor to this is that several key processes affecting precipitation…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Lucy Harris , Andrew T. T. McRae , Matthew Chantry , Peter D. Dueben , Tim N. Palmer

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

Class imbalance is a common problem in supervised learning and impedes the predictive performance of classification models. Popular countermeasures include oversampling the minority class. Standard methods like SMOTE rely on finding nearest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Justin Engelmann , Stefan Lessmann

We present a novel method and analysis to train generative adversarial networks (GAN) in a stable manner. As shown in recent analysis, training is often undermined by the probability distribution of the data being zero on neighborhoods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

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 models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), often suffer from a lack of output diversity, frequently generating similar samples rather than a wide range of variations. This paper introduces a novel generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Muhammad Mubashar , Fabio Cuzzolin

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 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 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

We introduce the Probabilistic Generative Adversarial Network (PGAN), a new GAN variant based on a new kind of objective function. The central idea is to integrate a probabilistic model (a Gaussian Mixture Model, in our case) into the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

Unsupervised domain mapping has attracted substantial attention in recent years due to the success of models based on the cycle-consistency assumption. These models map between two domains by fooling a probabilistic discriminator, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Matthew Amodio , Smita Krishnaswamy

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has gotten wide re-search interest in the field of deep learning. Variations of GAN have achieved competitive results on specific tasks. However, the stability of training and diversity of generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Haoxuan You , Zhicheng Jiao , Haojun Xu , Jie Li , Ying Wang , Xinbo Gao

One of the main challenges in the parametrization of geological models is the ability to capture complex geological structures often observed in the subsurface. In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GAN) were proposed as an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-10 Shing Chan , Ahmed H. Elsheikh