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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one of the most popular tools for learning complex high dimensional distributions. However, generalization properties of GANs have not been well understood. In this paper, we analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Hoang Thanh-Tung , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

In standard generative adversarial network (SGAN), the discriminator estimates the probability that the input data is real. The generator is trained to increase the probability that fake data is real. We argue that it should also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau

We propose a novel, projection based way to incorporate the conditional information into the discriminator of GANs that respects the role of the conditional information in the underlining probabilistic model. This approach is in contrast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Takeru Miyato , Masanori Koyama

Spatial target speaker extraction isolates a desired speaker's voice in multi-speaker environments using spatial information, such as the direction of arrival (DoA). Although recent deep neural network (DNN)-based discriminative methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Andreas Brendel

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

We propose MAD-GAN, an intuitive generalization to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and its conditional variants to address the well known problem of mode collapse. First, MAD-GAN is a multi-agent GAN architecture incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Arnab Ghosh , Viveka Kulharia , Vinay Namboodiri , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) have shown promise in image generation and semi-supervised learning (SSL). However, existing GANs in SSL have two problems: (1) the generator and the discriminator (i.e. the classifier) may not be optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Chongxuan Li , Kun Xu , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) while being very versatile in realistic image synthesis, still are sensitive to the input distribution. Given a set of data that has an imbalance in the distribution, the networks are susceptible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Shashank Sharma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

As machine learning is applied to an increasing variety of complex problems, which are defined by high dimensional and complex data sets, the necessity for task oriented feature learning grows in importance. With the advancement of Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Vishwajeet Singh , Killamsetti Ravi Kumar , K Eswaran

While generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been widely adopted in various topics, in this paper we generalize the standard GAN to a new perspective by treating realness as a random variable that can be estimated from multiple angles.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yuanbo Xiangli , Yubin Deng , Bo Dai , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin

In this work, we generalize semi-supervised generative adversarial networks (GANs) from classification problems to regression problems. In the last few years, the importance of improving the training of neural networks using semi-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Greg Olmschenk , Zhigang Zhu , Hao Tang

Recent works showed that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can be successfully applied in unsupervised domain adaptation, where, given a labeled source dataset and an unlabeled target dataset, the goal is to train powerful classifiers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Riccardo Volpi , Pietro Morerio , Silvio Savarese , Vittorio Murino

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

While deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized many fields, their fragility to carefully designed adversarial attacks impedes the usage of DNNs in safety-critical applications. In this paper, we strive to explore the robust features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Hong Wang , Yuefan Deng , Shinjae Yoo , Yuewei Lin

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have significantly advanced image synthesis, however, the synthesis quality drops significantly given a limited amount of training data. To improve the data efficiency of GAN training, prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu , Bolei Zhou

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

As the application of generative adversarial networks (GANs) expands, it becomes increasingly critical to develop a unified approach that improves performance across various generative tasks. One effective strategy that applies to any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Naoyuki Terashita , Hiroki Ohashi , Satoshi Hara

In practice, the data distribution at test time often differs, to a smaller or larger extent, from that of the original training data. Consequentially, the so-called source classifier, trained on the available labelled data, deteriorates on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-18 Wouter M. Kouw , Marco Loog

We propose a rejection sampling scheme using the discriminator of a GAN to approximately correct errors in the GAN generator distribution. We show that under quite strict assumptions, this will allow us to recover the data distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-27 Samaneh Azadi , Catherine Olsson , Trevor Darrell , Ian Goodfellow , Augustus Odena

For classification problems, feature extraction is a crucial process which aims to find a suitable data representation that increases the performance of the machine learning algorithm. According to the curse of dimensionality theorem, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Ilknur Icke , Andrew Rosenberg