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The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

In this paper, we propose an improved quantitative evaluation framework for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on generating domain-specific images, where we improve conventional evaluation methods on two levels: the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Shaohui Liu , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

General-purpose open-domain dense retrieval systems are usually trained with a large, eclectic mix of corpora and search tasks. How should these diverse corpora and tasks be sampled for training? Conventional approaches sample them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Meet Doshi , Vishwajeet Kumar , Yulong Li , Jaydeep Sen

Recent methods for conditional image generation benefit from dense supervision such as segmentation label maps to achieve high-fidelity. However, it is rarely explored to employ dense supervision for unconditional image generation. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Gayoung Lee , Hyunsu Kim , Junho Kim , Seonghyeon Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Yunjey Choi

The difficulty in obtaining labeled data relevant to a given task is among the most common and well-known practical obstacles to applying deep learning techniques to new or even slightly modified domains. The data volumes required by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jonathan Howe , Kyle Pula , Aaron A. Reite

We present a framework to understand GAN training as alternating density ratio estimation and approximate divergence minimization. This provides an interpretation for the mismatched GAN generator and discriminator objectives often used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ben Poole , Alexander A. Alemi , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Anelia Angelova

The use of discriminators to train or fine-tune generative models has proven to be a rather successful framework. A notable example is Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) that minimize a loss incurred by training discriminators along…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Hisham Husain , Valentin De Bortoli , Richard Nock

Implicit generative models have the capability to learn arbitrary complex data distributions. On the downside, training requires telling apart real data from artificially-generated ones using adversarial discriminators, leading to unstable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 José Manuel de Frutos , Pablo M. Olmos , Manuel A. Vázquez , Joaquín Míguez

We describe a new approach that improves the training of generative adversarial nets (GANs) for synthesizing diverse images from a text input. Our approach is based on the conditional version of GANs and expands on previous work leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Miriam Cha , Youngjune L. Gwon , H. T. Kung

With the rising number of machine learning competitions, the world has witnessed an exciting race for the best algorithms. However, the involved data selection process may fundamentally suffer from evidence ambiguity and concept drift…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Hoang D. Nguyen , Xuan-Son Vu , Quoc-Tuan Truong , Duc-Trong Le

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been widely studied during the recent development of deep learning and unsupervised learning. With an adversarial training mechanism, GAN manages to train a generative model to fit the underlying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Weinan Zhang

In this work, we present SupResDiffGAN, a novel hybrid architecture that combines the strengths of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models for super-resolution tasks. By leveraging latent space representations and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Dawid Kopeć , Wojciech Kozłowski , Maciej Wizerkaniuk , Dawid Krutul , Jan Kocoń , Maciej Zięba

Typical engineering design tasks require the effort to modify designs iteratively until they meet certain constraints, i.e., performance or attribute requirements. Past work has proposed ways to solve the inverse design problem, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Amin Heyrani Nobari , Wei Chen , Faez Ahmed

Evaluating image generation models such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) is a challenging problem. A common approach is to compare the distributions of the set of ground truth images and the set of generated test images. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Junghyuk Lee , Jong-Seok Lee

Generative neural samplers are probabilistic models that implement sampling using feedforward neural networks: they take a random input vector and produce a sample from a probability distribution defined by the network weights. These models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-03 Sebastian Nowozin , Botond Cseke , Ryota Tomioka

Thanks to their ability to learn data distributions without requiring paired data, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become an integral part of many computer vision methods, including those developed for medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

In recent years, diffusion models have emerged as a superior alternative to generative adversarial networks (GANs) for high-fidelity image generation, with wide applications in text-to-image generation, image-to-image translation, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Lorenzo Aloisi , Luigi Sigillo , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

We propose an alternative to the standard GAN training approach, in which the discriminator is a binary classifier trained by cross-entropy to distinguish real samples from generated ones. Instead, we directly target the discrimination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mohammadreza Tavasoli Naeini , Ali Bereyhi , Morteza Noshad , Ben Liang , Alfred O. Hero

As a kind of generative self-supervised learning methods, generative adversarial nets have been widely studied in the field of anomaly detection. However, the representation learning ability of the generator is limited since it pays too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Xuan Xia , Xizhou Pan , Xing He , Jingfei Zhang , Ning Ding , Lin Ma

The performance of generative adversarial networks (GANs) heavily deteriorates given a limited amount of training data. This is mainly because the discriminator is memorizing the exact training set. To combat it, we propose Differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shengyu Zhao , Zhijian Liu , Ji Lin , Jun-Yan Zhu , Song Han