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Generating realistic graph-structured data is challenging due to discrete structures, variable sizes, and class-specific connectivity patterns that resist conventional generative modelling. While recent graph generation methods employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Seyedeh Ava Razi Razavi , James Sargant , Sheridan Houghten , Renata Dividino

Generating images from natural language is one of the primary applications of recent conditional generative models. Besides testing our ability to model conditional, highly dimensional distributions, text to image synthesis has many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Cristian Bodnar

This paper considers the problem of regression over distributions, which is becoming increasingly important in machine learning. Existing approaches often ignore the geometry of the probability space or are computationally expensive. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Maksim Maslov , Alexander Kugaevskikh , Matthew Ivanov

Distributional causal inference requires estimating not only average treatment effects but also interventional outcome distributions, including quantiles, tail risks, and policy-dependent uncertainty. As a method for distributional causal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Shu Tamano , Masaaki Imaizumi

Recent advancement in generative models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various data modalities. Beyond their typical use in data synthesis, these models play a crucial role in distribution matching tasks such as latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sagar Shrestha , Rajesh Shrestha , Tri Nguyen , Subash Timilsina

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

We derive nearly sharp bounds for the bidirectional GAN (BiGAN) estimation error under the Dudley distance between the latent joint distribution and the data joint distribution with appropriately specified architecture of the neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Shiao Liu , Yunfei Yang , Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Yang Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are popular and successful generative models. Despite their success, optimization is notoriously challenging. In this work, we explain the success and limitations of GANs by casting them as Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Maurizio Filippone , Marius P. Linhard

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable results in the task of generating realistic natural images. In most successful applications, GAN models share two common aspects: solving a challenging saddle point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , David Lopez-Paz , Arthur Szlam

We show that training of generative adversarial network (GAN) may not have good generalization properties; e.g., training may appear successful but the trained distribution may be far from target distribution in standard metrics. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Yingyu Liang , Tengyu Ma , Yi Zhang

We consider the problem of training generative models with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). Although GANs can accurately model complex distributions, they are known to be difficult to train due to instabilities caused by a difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Paulina Grnarova , Kfir Y. Levy , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann , Andreas Krause

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is a novel class of deep generative models which has recently gained significant attention. GANs learns complex and high-dimensional distributions implicitly over images, audio, and data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao

The study of multidimensional discriminator (critic) output for Generative Adversarial Networks has been underexplored in the literature. In this paper, we generalize the Wasserstein GAN framework to take advantage of multidimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-15 Mengyu Dai , Haibin Hang , Anuj Srivastava

This paper presents a novel deep learning based data-driven optimization method. A novel generative adversarial network (GAN) based data-driven distributionally robust chance constrained programming framework is proposed. GAN is applied to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Shipu Zhao , Fengqi You

The extension of image generation to video generation turns out to be a very difficult task, since the temporal dimension of videos introduces an extra challenge during the generation process. Besides, due to the limitation of memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Dinesh Acharya , Zhiwu Huang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Generative adversarial networks are a novel method for statistical inference that have achieved much empirical success; however, the factors contributing to this success remain ill-understood. In this work, we attempt to analyze generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Shuang Liu , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Generative adversarial network (GAN) is a framework for generating fake data using a set of real examples. However, GAN is unstable in the training stage. In order to stabilize GANs, the noise injection has been used to enlarge the overlap…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kensuke Nakamura , Simon Korman , Byung-Woo Hong

Building on the success of deep learning, two modern approaches to learn a probability model from the data are Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs). VAEs consider an explicit probability model for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Yogesh Balaji , Hamed Hassani , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

Many deep generative models are defined as a push-forward of a Gaussian measure by a continuous generator, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs). This work explores the latent space of such deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Thibaut Issenhuth , Ugo Tanielian , Jérémie Mary , David Picard

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely adopted in various fields. However, existing GANs generally are not able to preserve the manifold of data space, mainly due to the simple representation of discriminator for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Haozhe Liu , Hanbang Liang , Xianxu Hou , Haoqian Wu , Feng Liu , Linlin Shen