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We present a variety of new architectural features and training procedures that we apply to the generative adversarial networks (GANs) framework. We focus on two applications of GANs: semi-supervised learning, and the generation of images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Tim Salimans , Ian Goodfellow , Wojciech Zaremba , Vicki Cheung , Alec Radford , Xi Chen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable results in the task of generating realistic natural images. In most successful applications, GAN models share two common aspects: solving a challenging saddle point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , David Lopez-Paz , Arthur Szlam

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful models able to synthesize data samples closely resembling the distribution of real data, yet the diversity of those generated samples is limited due to the so-called mode collapse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jan Dubiński , Kamil Deja , Sandro Wenzel , Przemysław Rokita , Tomasz Trzciński

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been extremely effective in approximating complex distributions of high-dimensional, input data samples, and substantial progress has been made in understanding and improving GAN performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Daniel Jiwoong Im , He Ma , Graham Taylor , Kristin Branson

Despite remarkable performance in producing realistic samples, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) often produce low-quality samples near low-density regions of the data manifold, e.g., samples of minor groups. Many techniques have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jinhee Lee , Haeri Kim , Youngkyu Hong , Hye Won Chung

Generative Adversarial Networks are used for generating the data using a generator and a discriminator, GANs usually produce high-quality images, but training GANs in an adversarial setting is a difficult task. GANs require high computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Md Nurul Muttakin , Malik Shahid Sultan , Robert Hoehndorf , Hernando Ombao

We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce systematically better quality samples when class label information is provided., i.e. in the conditional GAN setup. This is still observed for the recently proposed Wasserstein GAN formulation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Guillermo L. Grinblat , Lucas C. Uzal , Pablo M. Granitto

Training generative adversarial networks requires balancing of delicate adversarial dynamics. Even with careful tuning, training may diverge or end up in a bad equilibrium with dropped modes. In this work, we improve CS-GAN with natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Yan Wu , Jeff Donahue , David Balduzzi , Karen Simonyan , Timothy Lillicrap

A major challenge in materials design is how to efficiently search the vast chemical design space to find the materials with desired properties. One effective strategy is to develop sampling algorithms that can exploit both explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Yabo Dan , Yong Zhao , Xiang Li , Shaobo Li , Ming Hu , Jianjun Hu

Adversarial attacks on image classification systems have always been an important problem in the field of machine learning, and generative adversarial networks (GANs), as popular models in the field of image generation, have been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yahe Yang

Machine learning optimization often depends on stochastic gradient descent, where the precision of gradient estimation is vital for model performance. Gradients are calculated from mini-batches formed by uniformly selecting data samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Corentin Salaün , Xingchang Huang , Iliyan Georgiev , Niloy J. Mitra , Gurprit Singh

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a powerful approach for generative image modeling. However, GANs are notorious for their training instability, especially on large-scale, complex datasets. While the recent work of BigGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ting-Yun Chang , Chi-Jen Lu

Importance sampling is a rare event simulation technique used in Monte Carlo simulations to bias the sampling distribution towards the rare event of interest. By assigning appropriate weights to sampled points, importance sampling allows…

We propose to improve unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) by training the self-supervised learning with the adversarial process. In particular, we apply self-supervised learning via the geometric transformation on input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Viet-Hung Tran , Ngoc-Bao Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown impressive results in various image synthesis tasks. Vast studies have demonstrated that GANs are more powerful in feature and expression learning compared to other generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Omar De Mitri , Ruyu Wang , Marco F. Huber

While GAN is a powerful model for generating images, its inability to infer a latent space directly limits its use in applications requiring an encoder. Our paper presents a simple architectural setup that combines the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Yuri Feigin , Hedva Spitzer , Raja Giryes

Since the advent of generative adversarial networks (GANs), various loss functions have been developed and combined to constitute the overall training objective function, in order to improve model performance or for specific learning tasks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Jingwen Su , Hujun Yin

The fact that image datasets are often imbalanced poses an intense challenge for deep learning techniques. In this paper, we propose a method to restore the balance in imbalanced images, by coalescing two concurrent methods, generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Linlin Shen , Abdul Hamid Sadka , Jie Yang

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