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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

Learning conditional distributions is challenging because the desired outcome is not a single distribution but multiple distributions that correspond to multiple instances of the covariates. We introduce a novel neural entropic optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Bao Nguyen , Binh Nguyen , Hieu Trung Nguyen , Viet Anh Nguyen

The latent space of a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has been shown to encode rich semantics within some subspaces. To identify these subspaces, researchers typically analyze the statistical information from a collection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jiapeng Zhu , Ruili Feng , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Zhengjun Zha , Jingren Zhou , Qifeng Chen

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

Irregular distribution in latent space causes posterior collapse, misalignment between posterior and prior, and ill-sampling problem in Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). In this paper, we introduce a novel adaptable three-stage Uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ye Shi , C. S. George Lee

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique in machine learning, graphics, and vision that aligns two distributions or datasets using their relative geometry. In symmetry-rich settings, however, OT alignments based solely on pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Annabel Ma , Kaiying Hou , David Alvarez-Melis , Melanie Weber

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable achievements in image synthesis. These successes of GANs rely on large scale datasets, requiring too much cost. With limited training data, how to stable the training process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Ziqiang Li , Beihao Xia , Jing Zhang , Chaoyue Wang , Bin Li

The power and flexibility of Optimal Transport (OT) have pervaded a wide spectrum of problems, including recent Machine Learning challenges such as unsupervised domain adaptation. Its essence of quantitatively relating two probability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Bo Jiang , Hamid Krim , Tianfu Wu , Derya Cansever

Quantized neural networks typically require smaller memory footprints and lower computation complexity, which is crucial for efficient deployment. However, quantization inevitably leads to a distribution divergence from the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Runpei Dong , Zhanhong Tan , Mengdi Wu , Linfeng Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

In this paper, we introduce a neural network-based method to address the high-dimensional dynamic unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. Dynamic UOT focuses on the optimal transportation between two densities with unequal total mass,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Wei Wan , Jiangong Pan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Zuoqiang Shi

We establish numerical methods for solving the martingale optimal transport problem (MOT) - a version of the classical optimal transport with an additional martingale constraint on transport's dynamics. We prove that the MOT value can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Gaoyue Guo , Jan Obloj

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown substantial progress in modeling complex distributions of data. These networks have received tremendous attention since they can generate implicit probabilistic models that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-25 Mehdi Ahmadi , Timothy Nest , Mostafa Abdelnaim , Thanh-Dung Le

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized 3D reconstruction, it suffers from significant overhead due to massive redundant primitives. Existing compression methods typically rely on local sampling or fixed pruning thresholds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Beizhen Zhao , Sicheng Yu , Ziran Yin , Dongxu Shen , Hao Wang

Optimal Transport (OT) is a resource allocation problem with applications in biology, data science, economics and statistics, among others. In some of the applications, practitioners have access to samples which approximate the continuous…

Optimal transport has been an essential tool for reconstructing dynamics from complex data. With the increasingly available multifaceted data, a system can often be characterized across multiple spaces. Therefore, it is crucial to maintain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Zixuan Cang , Yanxiang Zhao

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in generation of data from natural data manifolds such as images. In several scenarios, it is desirable that generated data is well-clustered, especially when there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Deepak Mishra , Aravind Jayendran , Prathosh A. P

This paper addresses the practical challenge in Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) where the underlying ground cost function is typically latent and unobserved. Rather than assuming a fixed geometric cost, we adopt a data-driven approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Antoine Debouchage , Xiaozhen Wang , Zhenjie Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

Modern generative models are usually designed to match target distributions directly in the data space, where the intrinsic dimension of data can be much lower than the ambient dimension. We argue that this discrepancy may contribute to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Zijun Zhang , Ruixiang Zhang , Zongpeng Li , Yoshua Bengio , Liam Paull

Enforcing distributions of latent variables in neural networks is an active subject. It is vital in all kinds of generative models, where we want to be able to interpolate between points in the latent space, or sample from it. Modern…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-01 Maciej Mikulski , Jaroslaw Duda

Generative AutoEncoders require a chosen probability distribution in latent space, usually multivariate Gaussian. The original Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) uses randomness in encoder - causing problematic distortion, and overlaps in latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Jarek Duda