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Deep learning is a hot research topic in the field of machine learning methods and applications. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) provide impressive image generations from Gaussian white noise, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jiasong Wu , Jing Zhang , Fuzhi Wu , Youyong Kong , Guanyu Yang , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

We introduce a novel generative model, the Discrete Distribution Networks (DDN), that approximates data distribution using hierarchical discrete distributions. We posit that since the features within a network inherently capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Lei Yang

Admittedly, Graph Convolution Network (GCN) has achieved excellent results on graph datasets such as social networks, citation networks, etc. However, softmax used as the decision layer in these frameworks is generally optimized with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xuelong Li , Ziheng Jiao , Hongyuan Zhang , Rui Zhang

Deep generative models are proficient in generating realistic data but struggle with producing rare samples in low density regions due to their scarcity of training datasets and the mode collapse problem. While recent methods aim to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Subeen Lee , Jiyeon Han , Soyeon Kim , Jaesik Choi

Recent work on mode connectivity in the loss landscape of deep neural networks has demonstrated that the locus of (sub-)optimal weight vectors lies on continuous paths. In this work, we train a neural network that serves as a hypernetwork,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-09 Lior Deutsch , Erik Nijkamp , Yu Yang

In this work, we propose Sum-Product-Transform Networks (SPTN), an extension of sum-product networks that uses invertible transformations as additional internal nodes. The type and placement of transformations determine properties of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-05 Tomas Pevny , Vasek Smidl , Martin Trapp , Ondrej Polacek , Tomas Oberhuber

Graph Nerual Networks (GNNs) are effective models in graph embedding. It extracts shallow features and neighborhood information by aggregating neighbor information to learn the embedding representation of different nodes. However, the local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kejia Zhang

Deep neural networks are often ignorant about what they do not know and overconfident when they make uninformed predictions. Some recent approaches quantify classification uncertainty directly by training the model to output high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Murat Sensoy , Lance Kaplan , Federico Cerutti , Maryam Saleki

In many real-world problems, there is a limited set of training data, but an abundance of unlabeled data. We propose a new method, Generative Posterior Networks (GPNs), that uses unlabeled data to estimate epistemic uncertainty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Melrose Roderick , Felix Berkenkamp , Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Zico Kolter

This thesis investigates unsupervised time series representation learning for sequence prediction problems, i.e. generating nice-looking input samples given a previous history, for high dimensional input sequences by decoupling the static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Markus Beissinger

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

Multi-domain image-to-image translation with conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate highly photo realistic images with desired target classes, yet these synthetic images have not always been helpful to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Suman Sapkota , Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Tae-Kyun Kim

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

This paper raises an implicit manifold learning perspective in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), by studying how the support of the learned distribution, modelled as a submanifold $\mathcal{M}_{\theta}$, perfectly match with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-01 Kry Yik Chau Lui , Yanshuai Cao , Maxime Gazeau , Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang

We address the problem of compressed sensing using a deep generative prior model and consider both linear and learned nonlinear sensing mechanisms, where the nonlinear one involves either a fully connected neural network or a convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Vinayak Killedar , Praveen Kumar Pokala , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

While the manifold hypothesis is widely adopted in modern machine learning, complex data is often better modeled as stratified spaces -- unions of manifolds (strata) of varying dimensions. Stratified learning is challenging due to varying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-14 Randy Martinez , Rong Tang , Lizhen Lin

We present energy-based generative flow networks (EB-GFN), a novel probabilistic modeling algorithm for high-dimensional discrete data. Building upon the theory of generative flow networks (GFlowNets), we model the generation process by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Dinghuai Zhang , Nikolay Malkin , Zhen Liu , Alexandra Volokhova , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Reliable training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) typically require massive datasets in order to model complicated distributions. However, in several applications, training samples obey invariances that are \textit{a priori}…

Unsupervised domain mapping has attracted substantial attention in recent years due to the success of models based on the cycle-consistency assumption. These models map between two domains by fooling a probabilistic discriminator, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Matthew Amodio , Smita Krishnaswamy

Several distributed frameworks have been developed to scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on billion-size graphs. On several benchmarks, we observe that the graph partitions generated by these frameworks have heterogeneous data distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Dhruv Deshmukh , Gagan Raj Gupta , Manisha Chawla , Vishwesh Jatala , Anirban Haldar