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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as a powerful tool for generating high-fidelity data. However, the main bottleneck of existing approaches is the lack of supervision on the generator training, which often results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Baoren Xiao , Hao Ni , Weixin Yang

Unconditional image generation has recently been dominated by generative adversarial networks (GANs). GAN methods train a generator which regresses images from random noise vectors, as well as a discriminator that attempts to differentiate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Yedid Hoshen , Jitendra Malik

In order to alleviate the notorious mode collapse phenomenon in generative adversarial networks (GANs), we propose a novel training method of GANs in which certain fake samples are considered as real ones during the training process. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Song Tao , Jia Wang

For infinitesimal learning rates, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) follows the path of gradient flow on the full batch loss function. However moderately large learning rates can achieve higher test accuracies, and this generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Samuel L. Smith , Benoit Dherin , David G. T. Barrett , Soham De

Despite being impactful on a variety of problems and applications, the generative adversarial nets (GANs) are remarkably difficult to train. This issue is formally analyzed by \cite{arjovsky2017towards}, who also propose an alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Xiang Wei , Boqing Gong , Zixia Liu , Wei Lu , Liqiang Wang

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

Fairness has become an essential problem in many domains of Machine Learning (ML), such as classification, natural language processing, and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this research effort, we study the unfairness of GANs. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Patrik Joslin Kenfack , Kamil Sabbagh , Adín Ramírez Rivera , Adil Khan

Building on top of the success of generative adversarial networks (GANs), conditional GANs attempt to better direct the data generation process by conditioning with certain additional information. Inspired by the most recent AC-GAN, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chengcheng Li , Zi Wang , Hairong Qi

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide an algorithmic framework for constructing generative models with several appealing properties: they do not require a likelihood function to be specified, only a generating procedure; they…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Shakir Mohamed , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), modeled as a zero-sum game between a generator (G) and a discriminator (D), allow generating synthetic data with formal guarantees. Noting that D is a classifier, we begin by reformulating the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Monica Welfert , Gowtham R. Kurri , Kyle Otstot , Lalitha Sankar

We introduce a simple but effective unsupervised method for generating realistic and diverse images. We train a class-conditional GAN model without using manually annotated class labels. Instead, our model is conditional on labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Steven Liu , Tongzhou Wang , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba

This paper proposes two important contributions for conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) to improve the wide variety of applications that exploit this architecture. The first main contribution is an analysis of cGANs to show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Houssem eddine Boulahbal , Adrian Voicila , Andrew Comport

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are pow- erful generative models based on providing feed- back to a generative network via a discriminator network. However, the discriminator usually as- sesses individual samples. This prevents the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Thomas Lucas , Corentin Tallec , Jakob Verbeek , Yann Ollivier

We present an approach to learning regular spatial transformations between image pairs in the context of medical image registration. Contrary to optimization-based registration techniques and many modern learning-based methods, we do not…

Conditional generative models enjoy remarkable progress over the past few years. One of the popular conditional models is Auxiliary Classifier GAN (AC-GAN), which generates highly discriminative images by extending the loss function of GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Mingming Gong , Yanwu Xu , Chunyuan Li , Kun Zhang , Kayhan Batmanghelich

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have drawn a lot of attentions for learning the underlying distribution of data in various applications. Despite their wide applicability, training GANs is notoriously difficult. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Babak Barazandeh , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maziar Sanjabi

In recent years, deep neural networks have been utilized in a wide variety of applications including image generation. In particular, generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to produce highly realistic pictures as part of tasks such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Hyunsuk Ko , Dae Yeol Lee , Seunghyun Cho , Alan C. Bovik

The performance of generative adversarial networks (GANs) heavily deteriorates given a limited amount of training data. This is mainly because the discriminator is memorizing the exact training set. To combat it, we propose Differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shengyu Zhao , Zhijian Liu , Ji Lin , Jun-Yan Zhu , Song Han

We propose a simple yet highly effective method that addresses the mode-collapse problem in the Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN). Although conditional distributions are multi-modal (i.e., having many modes) in practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Dingdong Yang , Seunghoon Hong , Yunseok Jang , Tianchen Zhao , Honglak Lee

Existing generative adversarial network (GAN) based conditional image generative models typically produce fixed output for the same conditional input, which is unreasonable for highly subjective tasks, such as large-mask image inpainting or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Tianyi Chu , Wei Xing , Jiafu Chen , Zhizhong Wang , Jiakai Sun , Lei Zhao , Haibo Chen , Huaizhong Lin