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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of deep generative models which aim to learn a target distribution in an unsupervised fashion. While they were successfully applied to many problems, training a GAN is a notoriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Karol Kurach , Mario Lucic , Xiaohua Zhai , Marcin Michalski , Sylvain Gelly

Game theory finds nowadays a broad range of applications in engineering and machine learning. However, in a derivative-free, expensive black-box context, very few algorithmic solutions are available to find game equilibria. Here, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Victor Picheny , Mickael Binois , Abderrahmane Habbal

We design a distributed algorithm to seek generalized Nash equilibria of a robust game with uncertain coupled constraints. Due to the uncertainty of parameters in set constraints, we aim to find a generalized Nash equilibrium in the worst…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Gehui Xu , Guanpu Chen , Hongsheng Qi

Robust estimation is an important problem in statistics which aims at providing a reasonable estimator when the data-generating distribution lies within an appropriately defined ball around an uncontaminated distribution. Although minimax…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Zheng Liu , Po-Ling Loh

Many real-world domains contain multiple agents behaving strategically with probabilistic transitions and uncertain (potentially infinite) duration. Such settings can be modeled as stochastic games. While algorithms have been developed for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Sam Ganzfried , Conner Laughlin , Charles Morefield

In this paper, we consider a continuous-type Bayesian Nash equilibrium (BNE) seeking problem in subnetwork zero-sum games, which is a generalization of deterministic subnetwork zero-sum games and discrete-type Bayesian zero-sum games. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Hanzheng Zhang , Guanpu Chen , Yiguang Hong

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a machine learning framework comprising a generative model for sampling from a target distribution and a discriminative model for evaluating the proximity of a sample to the target distribution.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Daniel Herr , Benjamin Obert , Matthias Rosenkranz

Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) represent an important milestone for effective generative models, which has inspired numerous variants seemingly different from each other. One of the main contributions of this paper is to reveal a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-10 Jae Hyun Lim , Jong Chul Ye

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is a novel class of deep generative models which has recently gained significant attention. GANs learns complex and high-dimensional distributions implicitly over images, audio, and data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao

This work investigates a problem of simultaneous global cost minimization and Nash equilibrium seeking, which commonly exists in $N$-cluster non-cooperative games. Specifically, the agents in the same cluster collaborate to minimize a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

Computing optimal transport maps between high-dimensional and continuous distributions is a challenging problem in optimal transport (OT). Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are powerful generative models which have been successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Jacob Leygonie , Jennifer She , Amjad Almahairi , Sai Rajeswar , Aaron Courville

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) form a generative modeling approach known for producing appealing samples, but they are notably difficult to train. One common way to tackle this issue has been to propose new formulations of the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Gauthier Gidel , Hugo Berard , Gaëtan Vignoud , Pascal Vincent , Simon Lacoste-Julien

This paper investigates the convergence of learning dynamics in Stackelberg games. In the class of games we consider, there is a hierarchical game being played between a leader and a follower with continuous action spaces. We establish a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-07 Tanner Fiez , Benjamin Chasnov , Lillian J. Ratliff

Generative adversarial networks are generative models that are capable of replicating the implicit probability distribution of the input data with high accuracy. Traditionally, GANs consist of a Generator and a Discriminator which interact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xin Wang

We study a class of nonzero-sum stochastic differential games between two teams with agents in each team interacting through graphon aggregates. On the one hand, in each large population group, agents act together to optimize a common…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 De-xuan Xu , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang

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 this article, we consider generalized Nash games where the associated constraint map is not necessarily self. The classical Nash equilibrium may not exist for such games and therefore we introduce the notion of best approximate solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Asrifa Sultana , Shivani Valecha

Prediction is a well-studied machine learning task, and prediction algorithms are core ingredients in online products and services. Despite their centrality in the competition between online companies who offer prediction-based products,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Omer Ben-Porat , Moshe Tennenholtz

This paper studies how well generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn probability distributions from finite samples. Our main results establish the convergence rates of GANs under a collection of integral probability metrics defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Zhen Li , Shiao Liu , Yang Wang , Yunfei Yang

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