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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can accurately model complex multi-dimensional data and generate realistic samples. However, due to their implicit estimation of data distributions, their evaluation is a challenging task. The majority…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Amirsina Torfi , Mohammadreza Beyki , Edward A. Fox

Adversarial examples are a hot topic due to their abilities to fool a classifier's prediction. There are two strategies to create such examples, one uses the attacked classifier's gradients, while the other only requires access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jean-Christophe Burnel , Kilian Fatras , Nicolas Courty

Recently the Generative Adversarial Network has become a hot topic. Considering the application of GAN in multi-user environment, we propose Distributed-GAN. It enables multiple users to train with their own data locally and generates more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Xiaoyu Wang , Ye Deng , Jinjun Wang

The traditional approach of hand-crafting priors (such as sparsity) for solving inverse problems is slowly being replaced by the use of richer learned priors (such as those modeled by deep generative networks). In this work, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Viraj Shah , Rakib Hyder , M. Salman Asif , Chinmay Hegde

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been shown to provide an effective way to model complex distributions and have obtained impressive results on various challenging tasks. However, typical GANs require fully-observed data during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Steven Cheng-Xian Li , Bo Jiang , Benjamin Marlin

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have known a tremendous success for many continuous generation tasks, especially in the field of image generation. However, for discrete outputs such as language, optimizing GANs remains an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Sylvain Lamprier , Thomas Scialom , Antoine Chaffin , Vincent Claveau , Ewa Kijak , Jacopo Staiano , Benjamin Piwowarski

We extend and improve the work of Model Agnostic Anchors for explanations on image classification through the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs). Using GANs, we generate samples from a more realistic perturbation distribution, by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-04 Kurtis Evan David , Harrison Keane , Jun Min Noh

This paper proposes two important contributions for conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) to improve the wide variety of applications that exploit this architecture. The first main contribution is an analysis of cGANs to show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Houssem eddine Boulahbal , Adrian Voicila , Andrew Comport

We show that training of generative adversarial network (GAN) may not have good generalization properties; e.g., training may appear successful but the trained distribution may be far from target distribution in standard metrics. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Yingyu Liang , Tengyu Ma , Yi Zhang

Recently, more and more works have proposed to drive evolutionary algorithms using machine learning models.Usually, the performance of such model based evolutionary algorithms is highly dependent on the training qualities of the adopted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Cheng He , Shihua Huang , Ran Cheng , Kay Chen Tan , Yaochu Jin

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) generate data based on minimizing a divergence between two distributions. The choice of that divergence is therefore critical. We argue that the divergence must take into account the hypothesis set and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Ben Adlam , Corinna Cortes , Mehryar Mohri , Ningshan Zhang

Since their proposal in the 2014 paper by Ian Goodfellow, there has been an explosion of research into the area of Generative Adversarial Networks. While they have been utilised in many fields, the realm of malware research is a problem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Aeryn Dunmore , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Fariza Sabrina , Jin Kwak

Despite the remarkable empirical successes of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), the theoretical guarantees for their statistical accuracy remain rather pessimistic. In particular, the data distributions on which GANs are applied, such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-17 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Peter L. Bartlett

Most current computer vision datasets are composed of disconnected sets, such as images from different classes. We prove that distributions of this type of data cannot be represented with a continuous generative network without error. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lorenzo Luzi , Randall Balestriero , Richard G. Baraniuk

Unsupervised learning of generative models has seen tremendous progress over recent years, in particular due to generative adversarial networks (GANs), variational autoencoders, and flow-based models. GANs have dramatically improved sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Thomas Lucas , Konstantin Shmelkov , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid , Jakob Verbeek

Perceptual estimates exhibit a reversal in bias depending on uncertainty: they shift toward prior expectations under high stimulus noise, but away from them when sensory noise dominates. The normative framework of a Bayesian observer model…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-16 Hyun-Jun Jeon , Hansol Choi , Oh-Sang Kwon

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in image synthesis, making GAN models themselves commercially valuable to legitimate model owners. Therefore, it is critical to technically protect the intellectual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Hailong Hu , Jun Pang

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

Generative adversarial networks are a novel method for statistical inference that have achieved much empirical success; however, the factors contributing to this success remain ill-understood. In this work, we attempt to analyze generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Shuang Liu , Kamalika Chaudhuri

We present Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), in which the symmetric property of the generated images is controlled. This is obtained through the generator network's architecture, while the training procedure and the loss remain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Irad Peleg , Lior Wolf