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We introduce a method to stabilize Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by defining the generator objective with respect to an unrolled optimization of the discriminator. This allows training to be adjusted between using the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Luke Metz , Ben Poole , David Pfau , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

This paper introduces a novel and fully unsupervised framework for conditional GAN training in which labels are automatically obtained from data. We incorporate a clustering network into the standard conditional GAN framework that plays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Mehdi Noroozi

Conditional generative models aim to learn the underlying joint distribution of data and labels to achieve conditional data generation. Among them, the auxiliary classifier generative adversarial network (AC-GAN) has been widely used, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Liang Hou , Qi Cao , Huawei Shen , Siyuan Pan , Xiaoshuang Li , Xueqi Cheng

In semiconductor manufacturing, the wafer dicing process is central yet vulnerable to defects that significantly impair yield - the proportion of defect-free chips. Deep neural networks are the current state of the art in (semi-)automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhining Hu , Tobias Schlosser , Michael Friedrich , André Luiz Vieira e Silva , Frederik Beuth , Danny Kowerko

Facial expression synthesis aims to generate realistic facial expressions while preserving identity. Existing conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) achieve excellent image-to-image translation results, but their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Arbish Akram , Nazar Khan , Arif Mahmood

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gained momentum for their ability to model image distributions. They learn to emulate the training set and that enables sampling from that domain and using the knowledge learned for useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Abdullah Hamdi , Bernard Ghanem

Under limited data setting, GANs often struggle to navigate and effectively exploit the input latent space. Consequently, images generated from adjacent variables in a sparse input latent space may exhibit significant discrepancies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jian Wang , Xin Lan , Jizhe Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Jiancheng Lv

In ill-posed imaging inverse problems, there can exist many hypotheses that fit both the observed measurements and prior knowledge of the true image. Rather than returning just one hypothesis of that image, posterior samplers aim to explore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Matthew C. Bendel , Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

Visual autoregressive (AR) generation offers a promising path toward unifying vision and language models, yet its performance remains suboptimal against diffusion models. Prior work often attributes this gap to tokenizer limitations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Qiyuan He , Yicong Li , Haotian Ye , Jinghao Wang , Xinyao Liao , Pheng-Ann Heng , Stefano Ermon , James Zou , Angela Yao

Recent years have witnessed the rapid progress of generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, the success of the GAN models hinges on a large amount of training data. This work proposes a regularization approach for training robust GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Hung-Yu Tseng , Lu Jiang , Ce Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Weilong Yang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable progress in the natural image field. However, when applying GANs in the remote sensing (RS) image generation task, an extraordinary phenomenon is observed: the GAN model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Xingzhe Su , Wenwen Qiang , Jie Hu , Fengge Wu , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) face a significant challenge of striking an optimal balance between high-quality image generation and training stability. Recent techniques, such as DCGAN, BigGAN, and StyleGAN, improve visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Ahmed A. Hashim , Ali Al-Shuwaili , Asraa Saeed , Ali Al-Bayaty

Applying generative adversarial networks (GANs) to text-related tasks is challenging due to the discrete nature of language. One line of research resolves this issue by employing reinforcement learning (RL) and optimizing the next-word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Yanghoon Kim , Seungpil Won , Seunghyun Yoon , Kyomin Jung

A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with generator $G$ trained to model the prior of images has been shown to perform better than sparsity-based regularizers in ill-posed inverse problems. Here, we propose a new method of deploying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ankit Raj , Yuqi Li , Yoram Bresler

Adversarially robust models are locally smooth around each data sample so that small perturbations cannot drastically change model outputs. In modern systems, such smoothness is usually obtained via Adversarial Training, which explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Adrián Rodríguez-Muñoz , Tongzhou Wang , Antonio Torralba

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of machine-learning models that use adversarial training to generate new samples with the same (potentially very complex) statistics as the training samples. One major form of training…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-12 Steven Durr , Youssef Mroueh , Yuhai Tu , Shenshen Wang

GANS are powerful generative models that are able to model the manifold of natural images. We leverage this property to perform manifold regularization by approximating the Laplacian norm using a Monte Carlo approximation that is easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Bruno Lecouat , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Houssam Zenati , Vijay R. Chandrasekhar

Despite the significant advances in recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are still notoriously hard to train. In this paper, we propose three novel curriculum learning strategies for training GANs. All strategies are first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Petru Soviany , Claudiu Ardei , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Marius Leordeanu

Recently, researchers have proposed many deep generative models, including generative adversarial networks(GANs) and denoising diffusion models. Although significant breakthroughs have been made and empirical success has been achieved with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chang Wan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Minglu Li , Yunliang Jiang , Zhonglong Zheng

The success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is largely built upon the adversarial training between a generator (G) and a discriminator (D). They are expected to reach a certain equilibrium where D cannot distinguish the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Jianyuan Wang , Ceyuan Yang , Yinghao Xu , Yujun Shen , Hongdong Li , Bolei Zhou