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It is well known that the generative adversarial nets (GANs) are remarkably difficult to train. The recently proposed Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) creates principled research directions towards addressing these issues. But we found in practice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Lijun Zhang , Yujin Zhang , Yongbin Gao

Most conditional generation tasks expect diverse outputs given a single conditional context. However, conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) often focus on the prior conditional information and ignore the input noise vectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Qi Mao , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Yu Tseng , Siwei Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Although Generative Adversarial Networks achieve state-of-the-art results on a variety of generative tasks, they are regarded as highly unstable and prone to miss modes. We argue that these bad behaviors of GANs are due to the very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Tong Che , Yanran Li , Athul Paul Jacob , Yoshua Bengio , Wenjie Li

Modern implicit generative models such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) are generally known to suffer from issues such as instability, uninterpretability, and difficulty in assessing their performance. If we see these implicit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 Arash Mehrjou , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Krikamol Muandet , Bernhard Schölkopf

Modern implicit generative models such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) are generally known to suffer from issues such as instability, uninterpretability, and difficulty in assessing their performance. If we see these implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Arash Mehrjou , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Krikamol Muandet , Bernhard Schölkopf

In this paper, we propose a novel normalization method called penalty gradient normalization (PGN) to tackle the training instability of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) caused by the sharp gradient space. Unlike existing work such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Tian Xia

Inspired by the remarkable success of large neural networks, there has been significant interest in understanding the generalization performance of over-parameterized models. Substantial efforts have been invested in characterizing how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Haoyuan Sun , Khashayar Gatmiry , Kwangjun Ahn , Navid Azizan

How to train deep neural networks (DNNs) to generalize well is a central concern in deep learning, especially for severely overparameterized networks nowadays. In this paper, we propose an effective method to improve the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yang Zhao , Hao Zhang , Xiuyuan Hu

Generative Adversarial Networks are powerful generative models that are able to model the manifold of natural images. We leverage this property to perform manifold regularization by approximating a variant of the Laplacian norm using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Bruno Lecouat , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Houssam Zenati , Vijay Chandrasekhar

We propose a novel data-dependent structured gradient regularizer to increase the robustness of neural networks vis-a-vis adversarial perturbations. Our regularizer can be derived as a controlled approximation from first principles,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-23 Kevin Roth , Aurelien Lucchi , Sebastian Nowozin , Thomas Hofmann

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the most popular approaches when it comes to training generative models, among which variants of Wasserstein GANs are considered superior to the standard GAN formulation in terms of learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Dávid Terjék

Deep neural networks are a promising approach towards multi-task learning because of their capability to leverage knowledge across domains and learn general purpose representations. Nevertheless, they can fail to live up to these promises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Mihai Suteu , Yike Guo

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

Recent work has increased the performance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by enforcing a consistency cost on the discriminator. We improve on this technique in several ways. We first show that consistency regularization can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-16 Zhengli Zhao , Sameer Singh , Honglak Lee , Zizhao Zhang , Augustus Odena , Han Zhang

Stochastic optimization plays a crucial role in the advancement of deep learning technologies. Over the decades, significant effort has been dedicated to improving the training efficiency and robustness of deep neural networks, via various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Huixiu Jiang , Ling Yang , Yu Bao , Rutong Si , Sikun Yang

Recent years have witnessed the rapid progress of generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, the success of the GAN models hinges on a large amount of training data. This work proposes a regularization approach for training robust GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Hung-Yu Tseng , Lu Jiang , Ce Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Weilong Yang

Training of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is notoriously fragile, requiring to maintain a careful balance between the generator and the discriminator in order to perform well. To mitigate this issue we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Dan Zhang , Anna Khoreva

This paper presents a gradient-informed fine-tuning method for large language models under few-shot conditions. The goal is to enhance task adaptability and training stability when data is limited. The method builds on a base loss function…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hongye Zheng , Yichen Wang , Ray Pan , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Hanlu Zhang

This paper introduces a promising alternative method for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on large-scale datasets with clear theoretical guarantees. GANs are typically learned through a minimax game between a generator and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chang Wan , Ke Fan , Xinwei Sun , Yanwei Fu , Minglu Li , Yunliang Jiang , Zhonglong Zheng

In recent years, multi-scale generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been proposed to build generalized image processing models based on single sample. Constraining on the sample size, multi-scale GANs have much difficulty converging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jing Tang , Bo Tao , Zeyu Gong , Zhouping Yin