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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) achieve excellent performance in generative tasks, such as image super-resolution, but their computational requirements make difficult their deployment on resource-constrained devices. While knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nikolaos Kaparinos , Vasileios Mezaris

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have gained increasing popularity in various computer vision applications, and recently start to be deployed to resource-constrained mobile devices. Similar to other deep models, state-of-the-art GANs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Haotao Wang , Shupeng Gui , Haichuan Yang , Ji Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have enabled controllable image synthesis for many vision and graphics applications. However, recent cGANs are 1-2 orders of magnitude more compute-intensive than modern recognition CNNs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Muyang Li , Ji Lin , Yaoyao Ding , Zhijian Liu , Jun-Yan Zhu , Song Han

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is an adversarial model, and it has been demonstrated to be effective for various generative tasks. However, GAN and its variants also suffer from many training problems, such as mode collapse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Junjie Li , Junwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Gong , Shuai Lü

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) rely heavily on large-scale training data for training high-quality image generation models. With limited training data, the GAN discriminator often suffers from severe overfitting which directly leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kaiwen Cui , Yingchen Yu , Fangneng Zhan , Shengcai Liao , Shijian Lu1 , Eric Xing

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in modeling complex data distributions for image-to-image translation. Still, their high computational demands prohibit their deployment in practical scenarios like edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Alireza Ganjdanesh , Shangqian Gao , Hirad Alipanah , Heng Huang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have an enormous potential impact on digital content creation, e.g., photo-realistic digital avatars, semantic content editing, and quality enhancement of speech and images. However, the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Pavel Andreev , Alexander Fritzler , Dmitry Vetrov

Since its invention, Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown outstanding results in many applications. Generative Adversarial Networks are powerful yet, resource-hungry deep-learning models. Their main difference from ordinary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Dina Tantawy , Mohamed Zahran , Amr Wassal

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), e.g., StyleGAN2, play a vital role in various image generation and synthesis tasks, yet their notoriously high computational cost hinders their efficient deployment on edge devices. Directly applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yuchen Liu , Zhixin Shu , Yijun Li , Zhe Lin , Federico Perazzi , S. Y. Kung

We present a learned image compression system based on GANs, operating at extremely low bitrates. Our proposed framework combines an encoder, decoder/generator and a multi-scale discriminator, which we train jointly for a generative learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Eirikur Agustsson , Michael Tschannen , Fabian Mentzer , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been used widely to generate large volumes of synthetic data. This data is being utilized for augmenting with real examples in order to train deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Binod Bhattarai , Seungryul Baek , Rumeysa Bodur , Tae-Kyun Kim

Text generation is of particular interest in many NLP applications such as machine translation, language modeling, and text summarization. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) achieved a remarkable success in high quality image generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Md. Akmal Haidar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

We present the first neural video compression method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). Our approach significantly outperforms previous neural and non-neural video compression methods in a user study, setting a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Fabian Mentzer , Eirikur Agustsson , Johannes Ballé , David Minnen , Nick Johnston , George Toderici

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved excellent audio synthesis quality in the last years. However, making them operable with semantically meaningful controls remains an open challenge. An obvious approach is to control the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Javier Nistal , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard

Diffusion distillation is a widely used technique to reduce the sampling cost of diffusion models, yet it often requires extensive training, and the student performance tends to be degraded. Recent studies show that incorporating a GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Bowen Zheng , Tianming Yang

This paper proposes a content relationship distillation (CRD) to tackle the over-parameterized generative adversarial networks (GANs) for the serviceability in cutting-edge devices. In contrast to traditional instance-level distillation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Lizhou You , Mingbao Lin , Tie Hu , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated unprecedented success in various image generation tasks. The encouraging results, however, come at the price of a cumbersome training process, during which the generator and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Chengchao Shen , Youtan Yin , Xinchao Wang , Xubin Li , Jie Song , Mingli Song

One highly promising direction for enabling flexible real-time on-device image editing is utilizing data distillation by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models to generate paired datasets used for training generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yifan Gong , Zheng Zhan , Qing Jin , Yanyu Li , Yerlan Idelbayev , Xian Liu , Andrey Zharkov , Kfir Aberman , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful framework for learning to draw samples from complex distributions. However, GANs are also notoriously difficult to train, with mode collapse and oscillations a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-28 Kevin J Liang , Chunyuan Li , Guoyin Wang , Lawrence Carin

We propose an information-theoretic knowledge distillation approach for the compression of generative adversarial networks, which aims to maximize the mutual information between teacher and student networks via a variational optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Minsoo Kang , Hyewon Yoo , Eunhee Kang , Sehwan Ki , Hyong-Euk Lee , Bohyung Han