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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

Training of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) on a video dataset is a challenge because of the sheer size of the dataset and the complexity of each observation. In general, the computational cost of training GAN scales exponentially with…

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Training generative adversarial networks (GAN) in a distributed fashion is a promising technology since it is contributed to training GAN on a massive of data efficiently in real-world applications. However, GAN is known to be difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xiaojun Chen , Shu Yang , Li Shen , Xuanrong Pang

We relate the minimax game of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to finding the saddle points of the Lagrangian function for a convex optimization problem, where the discriminator outputs and the distribution of generator outputs play…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Xu Chen , Jiang Wang , Hao Ge

Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning have achieved human-level performance on a variety of real-world applications. However, the current algorithms still suffer from poor gradient estimation with excessive variance, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Wei-Ye Zhao , Xi-Ya Guan , Yang Liu , Xiaoming Zhao , Jian Peng

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

The instability of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) training has frequently been attributed to gradient descent. Consequently, recent methods have aimed to tailor the models and training procedures to stabilise the discrete updates. In…

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has gotten wide re-search interest in the field of deep learning. Variations of GAN have achieved competitive results on specific tasks. However, the stability of training and diversity of generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Haoxuan You , Zhicheng Jiao , Haojun Xu , Jie Li , Ying Wang , Xinbo Gao

Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) is known to be difficult, especially for financial time series. This paper first analyzes the well-posedness problem in GANs minimax games and the convexity issue in GANs objective functions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-28 Othmane Mounjid , Xin Guo

Despite impressive performance, deep neural networks require significant memory and computation costs, prohibiting their application in resource-constrained scenarios. Sparse training is one of the most common techniques to reduce these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Bowen Lei , Dongkuan Xu , Ruqi Zhang , Shuren He , Bani K. Mallick

While deep learning in the form of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) has caused a significant improvement in neural language modeling, the fact that they are extremely prone to overfitting is still a mainly unresolved issue. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Sajad Movahedi , Azadeh Shakery

Despite success on a wide range of problems related to vision, generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffer from inferior performance due to unstable training, especially for text generation. To solve this issue, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yue Wu , Pan Zhou , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

Under mild assumptions stochastic gradient methods asymptotically achieve an optimal rate of convergence if the arithmetic mean of all iterates is returned as an approximate optimal solution. However, in the absence of stochastic noise, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Melinda Hagedorn , Florian Jarre

Classical stochastic gradient methods for optimization rely on noisy gradient approximations that become progressively less accurate as iterates approach a solution. The large noise and small signal in the resulting gradients makes it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Soham De , Abhay Yadav , David Jacobs , Tom Goldstein

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a premium optimization method for training neural networks, especially for learning objectively defined labels such as image objects and events. When a neural network is instead faced with subjectively…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Kosmas Pinitas , Konstantinos Makantasis , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

LLM training is resource-intensive. Quantized training improves computational and memory efficiency but introduces quantization noise, which can hinder convergence and degrade model accuracy. Stochastic Rounding (SR) has emerged as a…

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Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) methods train neural networks by maintaining sparsity while dynamically adapting the network topology. Despite the promise of reduced computation, DST methods converge significantly slower than dense training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mohammed Adnan , Rohan Jain , Tom Jacobs , Ekansh Sharma , Rahul G. Krishnan , Rebekka Burkholz , Yani Ioannou

We introduce a novel approach for batch selection in Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) training, leveraging combinatorial bandit algorithms. Our methodology focuses on optimizing the learning process in the presence of label noise, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Michal Lisicki , Mihai Nica , Graham W. Taylor

Variance reduction methods such as SVRG and SpiderBoost use a mixture of large and small batch gradients to reduce the variance of stochastic gradients. Compared to SGD, these methods require at least double the number of operations per…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Melih Elibol , Lihua Lei , Michael I. Jordan

Stochastic gradient descent is the method of choice for large-scale machine learning problems, by virtue of its light complexity per iteration. However, it lags behind its non-stochastic counterparts with respect to the convergence rate,…

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