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Many machine learning methods have been recently developed to circumvent the high computational cost of the gradient-based topology optimization. These methods typically require extensive and costly datasets for training, have a difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Mohammad Mahdi Behzadi , Horea T. Ilies

Inverse lithography (ILT) is critical for modern semiconductor manufacturing but suffers from highly non-convex objectives that often trap optimization in poor local minima. Generative AI has been explored to warm-start ILT, yet most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Haoyu Yang , Haoxing Ren

This paper presents a novel concept learning framework for enhancing model interpretability and performance in visual classification tasks. Our approach appends an unsupervised explanation generator to the primary classifier network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Tanmay Garg , Deepika Vemuri , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Bayesian inference on structured models typically relies on the ability to infer posterior distributions of underlying hidden variables. However, inference in implicit models or complex posterior distributions is hard. A popular tool for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-16 Theofanis Karaletsos

Probabilistic graphical models are traditionally known for their successes in generative modeling. In this work, we advocate layered graphical models (LGMs) for probabilistic discriminative learning. To this end, we design LGMs in close…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Yuesong Shen , Tao Wu , Csaba Domokos , Daniel Cremers

Applying generative adversarial networks (GANs) to text-related tasks is challenging due to the discrete nature of language. One line of research resolves this issue by employing reinforcement learning (RL) and optimizing the next-word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Yanghoon Kim , Seungpil Won , Seunghyun Yoon , Kyomin Jung

In this work, we introduce Adapt & Align, a method for continual learning of neural networks by aligning latent representations in generative models. Neural Networks suffer from abrupt loss in performance when retrained with additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Kamil Deja , Bartosz Cywiński , Jan Rybarczyk , Tomasz Trzciński

We propose a framework of generative adversarial networks with multiple discriminators, which collaborate to represent a real dataset more effectively. Our approach facilitates learning a generator consistent with the underlying data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jinyoung Choi , Bohyung Han

Implicit models, which allow for the generation of samples but not for point-wise evaluation of probabilities, are omnipresent in real-world problems tackled by machine learning and a hot topic of current research. Some examples include…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-27 Yingzhen Li , Richard E. Turner

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

Though generative adversarial networks (GANs) areprominent models to generate realistic and crisp images,they often encounter the mode collapse problems and arehard to train, which comes from approximating the intrinsicdiscontinuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Dongsheng An , Yang Guo , Min Zhang , Xin Qi , Na Lei , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

In human learning, an effective skill in improving learning outcomes is learning by teaching: a learner deepens his/her understanding of a topic by teaching this topic to others. In this paper, we aim to borrow this teaching-driven learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Parth Sheth , Yueyu Jiang , Pengtao Xie

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a class of generative models used for various applications, but they have been known to suffer from the mode collapse problem, in which some modes of the target distribution are ignored by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Karttikeya Mangalam , Rohin Garg

Deep generative models provide powerful tools for distributions over complicated manifolds, such as those of natural images. But many of these methods, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), can be difficult to train, in part…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Akash Srivastava , Lazar Valkov , Chris Russell , Michael U. Gutmann , Charles Sutton

In this paper, we study deep generative models for effective unsupervised learning. We propose VGAN, which works by minimizing a variational lower bound of the negative log likelihood (NLL) of an energy based model (EBM), where the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Rogerio Feris , Zhongfei Zhang

Generative feature matching network (GFMN) is an approach for training implicit generative models for images by performing moment matching on features from pre-trained neural networks. In this paper, we present new GFMN formulations that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Inkit Padhi , Pierre Dognin , Ke Bai , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Youssef Mroueh , Payel Das

Training generative models that can generate high-quality text with sufficient diversity is an important open problem for Natural Language Generation (NLG) community. Recently, generative adversarial models have been applied extensively on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Haiyan Yin , Dingcheng Li , Xu Li , Ping Li

We consider the approximation of functions by 2-layer neural networks with a small number of hidden weights based on the squared loss and small datasets. Due to the highly non-convex energy landscape, gradient-based training often suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Johannes Hertrich , Sebastian Neumayer

We propose a method of moments (MoM) algorithm for training large-scale implicit generative models. Moment estimation in this setting encounters two problems: it is often difficult to define the millions of moments needed to learn the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Suman Ravuri , Shakir Mohamed , Mihaela Rosca , Oriol Vinyals

Reliable training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) typically require massive datasets in order to model complicated distributions. However, in several applications, training samples obey invariances that are \textit{a priori}…