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Due to their susceptibility to adversarial perturbations, neural networks (NNs) are hardly used in safety-critical applications. One measure of robustness to such perturbations in the input is the Lipschitz constant of the input-output map…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Patricia Pauli , Anne Koch , Julian Berberich , Paul Kohler , Frank Allgöwer

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

Lipschitz constant is a fundamental property in certified robustness, as smaller values imply robustness to adversarial examples when a model is confident in its prediction. However, identifying the worst-case adversarial examples is known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yongjin Han , Suhyun Kim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely applied in different scenarios thanks to the development of deep neural networks. The original GAN was proposed based on the non-parametric assumption of the infinite capacity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Ziqiang Li , Muhammad Usman , Rentuo Tao , Pengfei Xia , Chaoyue Wang , Huanhuan Chen , Bin Li

We propose two new techniques for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Our objectives are to alleviate mode collapse in GAN and improve the quality of the generated samples. First, we propose neighbor embedding, a manifold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Tuan-Anh Bui , Ngai-Man Cheung

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a very popular tool for implicitly learning high-dimensional probability distributions. Several improvements have been made to the original GAN formulation to address some of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Parimala Kancharla , Sumohana S. Channappayya

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have shown remarkable results in image generation tasks. High fidelity class-conditional GAN methods often rely on stabilization techniques by constraining the global Lipschitz continuity. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jiachen Zhong , Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

A major obstacle to achieving global convergence in distributed and federated learning is the misalignment of gradients across clients, or mini-batches due to heterogeneity and stochasticity of the distributed data. In this work, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yatin Dandi , Luis Barba , Martin Jaggi

Despite the growing interest in generative adversarial networks (GANs), training GANs remains a challenging problem, both from a theoretical and a practical standpoint. To address this challenge, in this paper, we propose a novel way to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Qunwei Li , Bhavya Kailkhura , Rushil Anirudh , Yi Zhou , Yingbin Liang , Pramod Varshney

A widely believed explanation for the remarkable generalization capacities of overparameterized neural networks is that the optimization algorithms used for training induce an implicit bias towards benign solutions. To grasp this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Maria Matveev , Vit Fojtik , Hung-Hsu Chou , Gitta Kutyniok , Johannes Maly

To improve the robustness of deep classifiers against adversarial perturbations, many approaches have been proposed, such as designing new architectures with better robustness properties (e.g., Lipschitz-capped networks), or modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Mahyar Fazlyab , Taha Entesari , Aniket Roy , Rama Chellappa

We explore methodologies to improve the robustness of generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) algorithms to observation noise. Towards this objective, we study the effect of local Lipschitzness of the discriminator and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Farzan Memarian , Abolfazl Hashemi , Scott Niekum , Ufuk Topcu

This paper is concerned with the training of neural networks (NNs) under semidefinite constraints, which allows for NN training with robustness and stability guarantees. In particular, we focus on Lipschitz bounds for NNs. Exploiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Patricia Pauli , Niklas Funcke , Dennis Gramlich , Mohamed Amine Msalmi , Frank Allgöwer

We study settings where gradient penalties are used alongside risk minimization with the goal of obtaining predictors satisfying different notions of monotonicity. Specifically, we present two sets of contributions. In the first part of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Joao Monteiro , Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Greg Mori

Exciting new work on the generalization bounds for neural networks (NN) given by Neyshabur et al. , Bartlett et al. closely depend on two parameter-depenedent quantities: the Lipschitz constant upper-bound and the stable rank (a softer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-21 Amartya Sanyal , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

Gradient-variation online learning aims to achieve regret guarantees that scale with variations in the gradients of online functions, which has been shown to be crucial for attaining fast convergence in games and robustness in stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yan-Feng Xie , Peng Zhao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Generative adversarial networks have achieved remarkable performance on various tasks but suffer from training instability. Despite many training strategies proposed to improve training stability, this issue remains as a challenge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Faqiang Liu , Mingkun Xu , Guoqi Li , Jing Pei , Luping Shi , Rong Zhao

In this paper, we present the Lipschitz regularization theory and algorithms for a novel Loss-Sensitive Generative Adversarial Network (LS-GAN). Specifically, it trains a loss function to distinguish between real and fake samples by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Guo-Jun Qi

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been remarkably successful at learning to sample from distributions specified by a given dataset, particularly if the given dataset is reasonably large compared to its dimensionality. However, given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Tiantian Fang , Ruoyu Sun , Alex Schwing

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been successful in producing outstanding results in areas as diverse as image, video, and text generation. Building on these successes, a large number of empirical studies have validated the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Gérard Biau , Maxime Sangnier , Ugo Tanielian