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It is known that the inconsistent distribution and representation of different modalities, such as image and text, cause the heterogeneity gap that makes it challenging to correlate such heterogeneous data. Generative adversarial networks…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Yuxin Peng , Jinwei Qi , Yuxin Yuan

We study adversarial learning when the target distribution factorizes according to a known Bayesian network. For interpolative divergences, including $(f,\Gamma)$-divergences, we prove a new infimal subadditivity principle showing that,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Panagiota Birmpa , Eric Joseph Hall

Traditional causal inference approaches leverage observational study data to estimate the difference in observed and unobserved outcomes for a potential treatment, known as the Conditional Average Treatment Effect (CATE). However, CATE…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-22 Tianhui Zhou , William E Carson , David Carlson

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

Class imbalance is an inherent problem in many machine learning classification tasks. This often leads to trained models that are unusable for any practical purpose. In this study we explore an unsupervised approach to address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ademola Okerinde , Lior Shamir , William Hsu , Tom Theis , Nasik Nafi

The idea of covariate balance is at the core of causal inference. Inverse propensity weights play a central role because they are the unique set of weights that balance the covariate distributions of different treatment groups. We discuss…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-29 Eli Ben-Michael , Avi Feller , David A. Hirshberg , José R. Zubizarreta

There has recently been a steady increase in the number iterative approaches to density estimation. However, an accompanying burst of formal convergence guarantees has not followed; all results pay the price of heavy assumptions which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Zac Cranko , Richard Nock

Dealing with severe class imbalance poses a major challenge for real-world applications, especially when the accurate classification and generalization of minority classes is of primary interest. In computer vision, learning from long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Zidi Xiu , Junya Chen , Ricardo Henao , Benjamin Goldstein , Lawrence Carin , Chenyang Tao

We introduce Kernel Density Discrimination GAN (KDD GAN), a novel method for generative adversarial learning. KDD GAN formulates the training as a likelihood ratio optimization problem where the data distributions are written explicitly via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Abdelhak Lemkhenter , Adam Bielski , Alp Eren Sari , Paolo Favaro

Counterfactual reasoning -- the practice of asking ``what if'' by varying inputs and observing changes in model behavior -- has become central to interpretable and fair AI. This thesis develops frameworks that use counterfactuals to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Pushkar Shukla

With the ongoing rise of machine learning, the need for methods for explaining decisions made by artificial intelligence systems is becoming a more and more important topic. Especially for image classification tasks, many state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Silvan Mertes , Tobias Huber , Katharina Weitz , Alexander Heimerl , Elisabeth André

Estimating causal effects from observational network data is a significant but challenging problem. Existing works in causal inference for observational network data lack an analysis of the generalization bound, which can theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Ruichu Cai , Zeqin Yang , Weilin Chen , Yuguang Yan , Zhifeng Hao

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been remarkably successful in learning complex high dimensional real word distributions and generating realistic samples. However, they provide limited control over the generation process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Arunava Chakraborty , Rahul Ragesh , Mahir Shah , Nipun Kwatra

In the absence of explicit or tractable likelihoods, Bayesians often resort to approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) for inference. Our work bridges ABC with deep neural implicit samplers based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-18 Yuexi Wang , Veronika Ročková

The fundamental problem in treatment effect estimation from observational data is confounder identification and balancing. Most of the previous methods realized confounder balancing by treating all observed pre-treatment variables as…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-13 Anpeng Wu , Kun Kuang , Junkun Yuan , Bo Li , Runze Wu , Qiang Zhu , Yueting Zhuang , Fei Wu

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks~(CGAN) are a recent and popular method for generating samples from a probability distribution conditioned on latent information. The latent information often comes in the form of a discrete label…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-19 Edoardo Lisi , Mohammad Malekzadeh , Hamed Haddadi , F. Din-Houn Lau , Seth Flaxman

The goal of anomaly detection is to identify anomalous samples from normal ones. In this paper, a small number of anomalies are assumed to be available at the training stage, but they are assumed to be collected only from several anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Bowen Tian , Qinliang Su , Jian Yin

This paper presents a novel deep learning based data-driven optimization method. A novel generative adversarial network (GAN) based data-driven distributionally robust chance constrained programming framework is proposed. GAN is applied to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Shipu Zhao , Fengqi You

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has been shown to be useful in various applications, such as image recognition, text processing and scientific computing, due its strong ability to learn complex data distributions. In this study, a…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Tianhao He , Dongxiao Zhang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one powerful type of deep learning models that have been successfully utilized in numerous fields. They belong to a broader family called generative methods, which generate new data with a…