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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved rapid progress in learning rich data distributions. However, we argue about two main issues in existing techniques. First, the low quality problem where the learned distribution has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

The standard practice in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) discards the discriminator during sampling. However, this sampling method loses valuable information learned by the discriminator regarding the data distribution. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yuejiang Liu , Parth Kothari , Alexandre Alahi

In unsupervised data generation tasks, besides the generation of a sample based on previous observations, one would often like to give hints to the model in order to bias the generation towards desirable metrics. We propose a method that…

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) was recently introduced in the literature as a novel machine learning method for training generative models. It has many applications in statistics such as nonparametric clustering and nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-26 Sehwan Kim , Qifan Song , Faming Liang

Ensembles are a popular way to improve results of discriminative CNNs. The combination of several networks trained starting from different initializations improves results significantly. In this paper we investigate the usage of ensembles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Yaxing Wang , Lichao Zhang , Joost van de Weijer

Due to the outstanding capability for data generation, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have attracted considerable attention in unsupervised learning. However, training GANs is difficult, since the training distribution is dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Haozhe Liu , Wentian Zhang , Bing Li , Haoqian Wu , Nanjun He , Yawen Huang , Yuexiang Li , Bernard Ghanem , Yefeng Zheng

A generative adversarial network (GAN) has been a representative backbone model in generative artificial intelligence (AI) because of its powerful performance in capturing intricate data-generating processes. However, the GAN training is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-21 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song

Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) on high quality (HQ) images involves important computing resources. This requirement represents a bottleneck for the development of applications of GANs. We propose a transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yaël Frégier , Jean-Baptiste Gouray

We show that training of generative adversarial network (GAN) may not have good generalization properties; e.g., training may appear successful but the trained distribution may be far from target distribution in standard metrics. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Yingyu Liang , Tengyu Ma , Yi Zhang

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 Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been impactful on many problems and applications but suffer from unstable training. The Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) leverages the Wasserstein distance to avoid the caveats in the minmax two-player…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-14 Yao Chen , Qingyi Gao , Xiao Wang

Generative adversarial network (GAN) is among the most popular deep learning models for learning complex data distributions. However, training a GAN is known to be a challenging task. This is often attributed to the lack of correlation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sahil Sidheekh , Aroof Aimen , Vineet Madan , Narayanan C. Krishnan

From generating never-before-seen images to domain adaptation, applications of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) spread wide in the domain of vision and graphics problems. With the remarkable ability of GANs in learning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Saman Motamed , Farzad Khalvati

Recently, generative machine-learning models have gained popularity in physics, driven by the goal of improving the efficiency of Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques and of exploring their potential in capturing experimental data…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-03 Japneet Singh , Vipul Arora , Vinay Gupta , Mathias S. Scheurer

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn to synthesise new samples from a high-dimensional distribution by passing samples drawn from a latent space through a generative network. When the high-dimensional distribution describes images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Antonia Creswell , Anil Anthony Bharath

Generative Adversarial Networks are powerful generative models that are able to model the manifold of natural images. We leverage this property to perform manifold regularization by approximating a variant of the Laplacian norm using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Bruno Lecouat , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Houssam Zenati , Vijay Chandrasekhar

To combine explicit and implicit generative models, we introduce semi-implicit generator (SIG) as a flexible hierarchical model that can be trained in the maximum likelihood framework. Both theoretically and experimentally, we demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-30 Mingzhang Yin , Mingyuan Zhou

In this paper, we study the generative models of sequential discrete data. To tackle the exposure bias problem inherent in maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), generative adversarial networks (GANs) are introduced to penalize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Sidi Lu , Lantao Yu , Siyuan Feng , Yaoming Zhu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven effective in modeling distributions of high-dimensional data. However, their training instability is a well-known hindrance to convergence, which results in practical challenges in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Alessandro Ferrero , Shireen Elhabian , Ross Whitaker