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Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are probabilistic deep generative models underpinned by elegant theory, stable training processes, and meaningful manifold representations. However, they produce blurry images due to a lack of explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Prashnna K Gyawali , Rudra Saha , Linwei Wang , VSR Veeravasarapu , Maneesh Singh

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are very popular to generate realistic images, but they often suffer from the training instability issues and the phenomenon of mode loss. In order to attain greater diversity in GAN synthesized data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Blessen George , Vinod K. Kurmi , Vinay P. Namboodiri

The unsupervised training of GANs and VAEs has enabled them to generate realistic images mimicking real-world distributions and perform image-based unsupervised clustering or semi-supervised classification. Combining the power of these two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran , Demetri Terzopoulos

Disentangled generative models map a latent code vector to a target space, while enforcing that a subset of the learned latent codes are interpretable and associated with distinct properties of the target distribution. Recent advances have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zinan Lin , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the greatest advances in AI in recent years. With their ability to directly learn the probability distribution of data, and then sample synthetic realistic data. Many applications have…

Population synthesis is concerned with the generation of synthetic yet realistic representations of populations. It is a fundamental problem in the modeling of transport where the synthetic populations of micro-agents represent a key input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-19 Stanislav S. Borysov , Jeppe Rich , Francisco C. Pereira

In recent years, deep learning based generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Diffusion Models (DMs), have been instrumental in in generating diverse, high-quality content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shamim Yazdani , Akansha Singh , Nripsuta Saxena , Zichong Wang , Avash Palikhe , Deng Pan , Umapada Pal , Jie Yang , Wenbin Zhang

Deep generative models are attracting great attention as a new promising approach for molecular design. All models reported so far are based on either variational autoencoder (VAE) or generative adversarial network (GAN). Here we propose a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 Seung Hwan Hong , Jaechang Lim , Seongok Ryu , Woo Youn Kim

In the years since Goodfellow et al. introduced Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there has been an explosion in the breadth and quality of generative model applications. Despite this work, GANs still have a long way to go before they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Conor Lazarou

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are popular generative models used to sample from complex data distributions. Despite their empirical success in various machine learning tasks, significant gaps remain in understanding their theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-23 Sobihan Surendran , Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Sylvain Le Corff

We propose Unbalanced GANs, which pre-trains the generator of the generative adversarial network (GAN) using variational autoencoder (VAE). We guarantee the stable training of the generator by preventing the faster convergence of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Hyungrok Ham , Tae Joon Jun , Daeyoung Kim

We introduce the Probabilistic Generative Adversarial Network (PGAN), a new GAN variant based on a new kind of objective function. The central idea is to integrate a probabilistic model (a Gaussian Mixture Model, in our case) into the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

Generative modelling is a key tool in unsupervised machine learning which has achieved stellar success in recent years. Despite this huge success, even the best generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Aratrika Mustafi

Though generative adversarial networks (GANs) areprominent models to generate realistic and crisp images,they often encounter the mode collapse problems and arehard to train, which comes from approximating the intrinsicdiscontinuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Dongsheng An , Yang Guo , Min Zhang , Xin Qi , Na Lei , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

Recent techniques built on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), such as Cycle-Consistent GANs, are able to learn mappings among different domains built from unpaired datasets, through min-max optimization games between generators and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Haoran You , Yu Cheng , Tianheng Cheng , Chunliang Li , Pan Zhou

In conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs), when two different initial noises are concatenated with the same conditional information, the distance between their outputs is relatively smaller, which makes minor modes likely to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Mengxiao Hu , Jinlong Li , Maolin Hu , Tao Hu

Biomedical image datasets can be imbalanced due to the rarity of targeted diseases. Generative Adversarial Networks play a key role in addressing this imbalance by enabling the generation of synthetic images to augment datasets. It is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Muhammad Muneeb Saad , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Ruairi O'Reilly

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are proficient at generating synthetic data but continue to suffer from mode collapse, where the generator produces a narrow range of outputs that fool the discriminator but fail to capture the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mahsa Valizadeh , Rui Tuo , James Caverlee

Deep generative models are proficient in generating realistic data but struggle with producing rare samples in low density regions due to their scarcity of training datasets and the mode collapse problem. While recent methods aim to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Subeen Lee , Jiyeon Han , Soyeon Kim , Jaesik Choi

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is a powerful family of models that learn an underlying distribution to generate synthetic data. Many existing studies of GANs focus on improving the realness of the generated image data for visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Si-An Chen , Chun-Liang Li , Hsuan-Tien Lin