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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a novel approach to generative modelling, a task whose goal it is to learn a distribution of real data points. They have often proved difficult to train: GANs are unlike many techniques in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Samuel A. Barnett

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great promise in modeling high dimensional data. The learning objective of GANs usually minimizes some measure discrepancy, \textit{e.g.}, $f$-divergence~($f$-GANs) or Integral Probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Yuxuan Song , Qiwei Ye , Minkai Xu , Tie-Yan Liu

This paper studies generative adversarial networks (GANs) from the perspective of statistical inference. A GAN is a popular machine learning method in which the parameters of two neural networks, a generator and a discriminator, are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Mika Meitz

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are powerful tools for learning generative models. In practice, the training may suffer from lack of convergence. GANs are commonly viewed as a two-player zero-sum game between two neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Hao Ge , Yin Xia , Xu Chen , Randall Berry , Ying Wu

A unifying $\alpha$-parametrized generator loss function is introduced for a dual-objective generative adversarial network (GAN), which uses a canonical (or classical) discriminator loss function such as the one in the original GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Justin Veiner , Fady Alajaji , Bahman Gharesifard

Many applications in machine learning can be framed as minimization problems and solved efficiently using gradient-based techniques. However, recent applications of generative models, particularly GANs, have triggered interest in solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Paulina Grnarova , Yannic Kilcher , Kfir Y. Levy , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) represent a zero-sum game between two machine players, a generator and a discriminator, designed to learn the distribution of data. While GANs have achieved state-of-the-art performance in several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Farzan Farnia , Asuman Ozdaglar

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are emerging machine learning models for generating synthesized data similar to real data by jointly training a generator and a discriminator. In many applications, data and computational resources are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jinke Ren , Chonghe Liu , Guanding Yu , Dongning Guo

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) was recently introduced in the literature as a novel machine learning method for training generative models. It has many applications in statistics such as nonparametric clustering and nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-26 Sehwan Kim , Qifan Song , Faming Liang

We present a novel method and analysis to train generative adversarial networks (GAN) in a stable manner. As shown in recent analysis, training is often undermined by the probability distribution of the data being zero on neighborhoods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

In this paper, we introduce DuelGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) solution to improve the stability of the generated samples and to mitigate mode collapse. Built upon the Vanilla GAN's two-player game between the discriminator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jiaheng Wei , Minghao Liu , Jiahao Luo , Andrew Zhu , James Davis , Yang Liu

In this paper, we propose a new approach to train Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) where we deploy a double-oracle framework using the generator and discriminator oracles. GAN is essentially a two-player zero-sum game between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Aye Phyu Phyu Aung , Xinrun Wang , Runsheng Yu , Bo An , Senthilnath Jayavelu , Xiaoli Li

The conventional understanding of adversarial training in generative adversarial networks (GANs) is that the discriminator is trained to estimate a divergence, and the generator learns to minimize this divergence. We argue that despite the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-09 Mingxuan Yi , Zhanxing Zhu , Song Liu

Traditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) and many of its variants are trained by minimizing the KL or JS-divergence loss that measures how close the generated data distribution is from the true data distribution. A recent advance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Marios Savvides

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn the distribution of observed samples through a zero-sum game between two machine players, a generator and a discriminator. While GANs achieve great success in learning the complex distribution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Farzan Farnia , William Wang , Subhro Das , Ali Jadbabaie

The goal of graph representation learning is to embed each vertex in a graph into a low-dimensional vector space. Existing graph representation learning methods can be classified into two categories: generative models that learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Hongwei Wang , Jia Wang , Jialin Wang , Miao Zhao , Weinan Zhang , Fuzheng Zhang , Xing Xie , Minyi Guo

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a powerful framework for deep generative modeling. Posed as a two-player minimax problem, GANs are typically trained end-to-end on real-valued data and can be used to train a generator of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Anirudh Goyal , Nan Rosemary Ke , Alex Lamb , R Devon Hjelm , Chris Pal , Joelle Pineau , Yoshua Bengio

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) are a promising technique for modeling a distribution from samples. It is however well known that GAN training suffers from instability due to the nature of its maximin formulation. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Yujia Li , Alexander Schwing , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Richard Zemel

Despite being impactful on a variety of problems and applications, the generative adversarial nets (GANs) are remarkably difficult to train. This issue is formally analyzed by \cite{arjovsky2017towards}, who also propose an alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Xiang Wei , Boqing Gong , Zixia Liu , Wei Lu , Liqiang Wang

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