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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated unprecedented success in various image generation tasks. The encouraging results, however, come at the price of a cumbersome training process, during which the generator and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Chengchao Shen , Youtan Yin , Xinchao Wang , Xubin Li , Jie Song , Mingli Song

In the past few years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have dramatically advanced our ability to represent and parameterize high-dimensional, non-linear image manifolds. As a result, they have been widely adopted across a variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Rushil Anirudh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Bhavya Kailkhura , Timo Bremer

The conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) is a powerful tool of generating high-quality images, but existing approaches mostly suffer unsatisfying performance or the risk of mode collapse. This paper presents Omni-GAN, a variant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Peng Zhou , Lingxi Xie , Bingbing Ni , Cong Geng , Qi Tian

One of the biggest challenges in the research of generative adversarial networks (GANs) is assessing the quality of generated samples and detecting various levels of mode collapse. In this work, we construct a novel measure of performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Valentin Khrulkov , Ivan Oseledets

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

Building on the success of deep learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) provide a modern approach to learn a probability distribution from observed samples. GANs are often formulated as a zero-sum game between two sets of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Pirazh Khorramshahi , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

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

Training generative adversarial networks (GAN) in a distributed fashion is a promising technology since it is contributed to training GAN on a massive of data efficiently in real-world applications. However, GAN is known to be difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xiaojun Chen , Shu Yang , Li Shen , Xuanrong Pang

In the years since Goodfellow et al. introduced Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there has been an explosion in the breadth and quality of generative model applications. Despite this work, GANs still have a long way to go before they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Conor Lazarou

Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN) have led to large improvements in the task of conditional image generation, which lies at the heart of computer vision. The major focus so far has been on performance improvement, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Grigorios G. Chrysos , Jean Kossaifi , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We propose in this paper a novel approach to tackle the problem of mode collapse encountered in generative adversarial network (GAN). Our idea is intuitive but proven to be very effective, especially in addressing some key limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Tu Dinh Nguyen , Trung Le , Hung Vu , Dinh Phung

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

Mode collapse is a significant unsolved issue of generative adversarial networks. In this work, we examine the causes of mode collapse from a novel perspective. Due to the nonuniform sampling in the training process, some sub-distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yanxiang Gong , Zhiwei Xie , Guozhen Duan , Zheng Ma , Mei Xie

Biomedical image datasets can be imbalanced due to the rarity of targeted diseases. Generative Adversarial Networks play a key role in addressing this imbalance by enabling the generation of synthetic images to augment datasets. It is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Muhammad Muneeb Saad , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Ruairi O'Reilly

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

Natural images may lie on a union of disjoint manifolds rather than one globally connected manifold, and this can cause several difficulties for the training of common Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this work, we first show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Ahmed Elgammal , Maneesh Singh

We propose a simple yet highly effective method that addresses the mode-collapse problem in the Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN). Although conditional distributions are multi-modal (i.e., having many modes) in practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Dingdong Yang , Seunghoon Hong , Yunseok Jang , Tianchen Zhao , Honglak Lee

One of the main motivations for training high quality image generative models is their potential use as tools for image manipulation. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been able to generate images of remarkable quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Aviv Gabbay , Yedid Hoshen

Biomedical image datasets can be imbalanced due to the rarity of targeted diseases. Generative Adversarial Networks play a key role in addressing this imbalance by enabling the generation of synthetic images to augment datasets. It is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Muhammad Muneeb Saad , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Ruairi O'Reilly

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a current focal point of research. The body of knowledge is fragmented, leading to a trial-error method while selecting an appropriate GAN for a given scenario. We provide a comprehensive summary of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Tanya Motwani , Manojkumar Parmar