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We present variational generative adversarial networks, a general learning framework that combines a variational auto-encoder with a generative adversarial network, for synthesizing images in fine-grained categories, such as faces of a…

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Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks~(CGAN) are a recent and popular method for generating samples from a probability distribution conditioned on latent information. The latent information often comes in the form of a discrete label…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-19 Edoardo Lisi , Mohammad Malekzadeh , Hamed Haddadi , F. Din-Houn Lau , Seth Flaxman

Generative feature matching network (GFMN) is an approach for training implicit generative models for images by performing moment matching on features from pre-trained neural networks. In this paper, we present new GFMN formulations that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Inkit Padhi , Pierre Dognin , Ke Bai , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Youssef Mroueh , Payel Das

Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) models can generate high-quality samples from a non-informative prior, but they can be slow, often needing hundreds of network evaluations (NFE). To address this, we propose Implicit Dynamical Flow Fusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mohammad R. Rezaei , Milos R. Popovic , Milad Lankarany , Rahul G. Krishnan

Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) is a critical yet largely underexplored issue that deals with the dynamic incorporation of new classes within federated learning (FL). Existing methods often employ generative adversarial networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Naibo Wang , Yuchen Deng , Wenjie Feng , Jianwei Yin , See-Kiong Ng

The generation of high-quality images has become widely accessible and is a rapidly evolving process. As a result, anyone can generate images that are indistinguishable from real ones. This leads to a wide range of applications, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Sergey Sinitsa , Ohad Fried

The success of deep learning-based generative models in producing realistic images, videos, and audios has led to a crucial consideration: how to effectively assess the quality of synthetic samples. While the Fr\'{e}chet Inception Distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yang Chen , Dustin J. Kempton , Rafal A. Angryk

Generative model evaluation commonly relies on high-dimensional embedding spaces to compute distances between samples. We show that dataset representations in these spaces are affected by the hubness phenomenon, which distorts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Nicolas Salvy , Hugues Talbot , Bertrand Thirion

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in class-to-image generation. However, we observe that despite impressive FID scores, state-of-the-art models often generate distorted or low-quality images, especially in certain classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jie Shao , Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Guo-hua Wang , Jianxin Wu

Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) is the primary metric for ranking models in data-driven generative modeling. While remarkably successful, the metric is known to sometimes disagree with human judgement. We investigate a root cause of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Tuomas Kynkäänniemi , Tero Karras , Miika Aittala , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen

In terms of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), the information metric to discriminate the generative data from the real data, lies in the key point of generation efficiency, which plays an important role in GAN-based applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Rui She , Pingyi Fan

One of the most significant challenges in statistical signal processing and machine learning is how to obtain a generative model that can produce samples of large-scale data distribution, such as images and speeches. Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Pegah Salehi , Abdolah Chalechale , Maryam Taghizadeh

Measuring the generalization capacity of Deep Generative Models (DGMs) is difficult because of the curse of dimensionality. Evaluation metrics for DGMs such as Inception Score, Fr\'echet Inception Distance, Precision-Recall, and Neural Net…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Hoang Thanh-Tung , Truyen Tran

We investigate the training and performance of generative adversarial networks using the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) as critic, termed MMD GANs. As our main theoretical contribution, we clarify the situation with bias in GAN loss…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Mikołaj Bińkowski , Danica J. Sutherland , Michael Arbel , Arthur Gretton

Neural samplers such as variational autoencoders (VAEs) or generative adversarial networks (GANs) approximate distributions by transforming samples from a simple random source---the latent space---to samples from a more complex distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-09 Nutan Chen , Alexej Klushyn , Richard Kurle , Xueyan Jiang , Justin Bayer , Patrick van der Smagt

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models in smart grids have advanced significantly in recent years due to their ability to generate large amounts of synthetic data, which would otherwise be difficult to obtain in the real world due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yuting Cai , Shaohuai Liu , Chao Tian , Le Xie

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are increasingly used to generate synthetic medical images, addressing the critical shortage of annotated data for training Artificial Intelligence systems. This study introduces CRF-GAN, a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Mahshid Shiri , Chandra Bortolotto , Alessandro Bruno , Alessio Consonni , Daniela Maria Grasso , Leonardo Brizzi , Daniele Loiacono , Lorenzo Preda

Recent deep generative models (DGMs) such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown their impressive ability in generating high-fidelity photorealistic images. Although looking appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Ruyu Wang , Sabrina Schmedding , Marco F. Huber

Deep generative models require large amounts of training data. This often poses a problem as the collection of datasets can be expensive and difficult, in particular datasets that are representative of the appropriate underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Anubhav Jain , Nasir Memon , Julian Togelius

Medical imaging is an essential tool for diagnosing and treating diseases. However, lacking medical images can lead to inaccurate diagnoses and ineffective treatments. Generative models offer a promising solution for addressing medical…

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