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We prove fast mixing and characterize the stationary distribution of the Langevin Algorithm for inverting random weighted DNN generators. This result extends the work of Hand and Voroninski from efficient inversion to efficient posterior…

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Gradient-based Discrete Samplers (GDSs) are effective for sampling discrete energy landscapes. However, they often stagnate in complex, non-convex settings. To improve exploration, we introduce the Discrete Replica EXchangE Langevin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Haoyang Zheng , Hengrong Du , Ruqi Zhang , Guang Lin

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Vision transformer networks have shown superiority in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, we take a step further by proposing a novel generative vision transformer with latent variables following an informative energy-based prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jing Zhang , Jianwen Xie , Nick Barnes , Ping Li

Implicit generative models have the capability to learn arbitrary complex data distributions. On the downside, training requires telling apart real data from artificially-generated ones using adversarial discriminators, leading to unstable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 José Manuel de Frutos , Pablo M. Olmos , Manuel A. Vázquez , Joaquín Míguez

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently emerged as a promising class of generative models. However, a fundamental limitation is that their inference is very slow due to a need for many (e.g., 2000) iterations of sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Hengyuan Ma , Li Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Jianfeng Feng

In this paper, we propose difficulty-guided sampling (DGS) to bridge the target gap between the distillation objective and the downstream task, therefore improving the performance of dataset distillation. Deep neural networks achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mingzhuo Li , Guang Li , Linfeng Ye , Jiafeng Mao , Takahiro Ogawa , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Miki Haseyama

Deep generative models are becoming widely used across science and industry for a variety of purposes. A common challenge is achieving a precise implicit or explicit representation of the data probability density. Recent proposals have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Ramon Winterhalder , Marco Bellagente , Benjamin Nachman

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown compelling results in various tasks and applications in recent years. However, mode collapse remains a critical problem in GANs. In this paper, we propose a novel training pipeline to…

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful models able to synthesize data samples closely resembling the distribution of real data, yet the diversity of those generated samples is limited due to the so-called mode collapse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jan Dubiński , Kamil Deja , Sandro Wenzel , Przemysław Rokita , Tomasz Trzciński

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in generating realistic data from some predefined prior distribution (e.g., Gaussian noises). However, such prior distribution is often independent of real data and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jiezhang Cao , Yong Guo , Qingyao Wu , Chunhua Shen , Junzhou Huang , Mingkui Tan

This paper explores the challenges and benefits of a trainable destruction process in diffusion samplers -- diffusion-based generative models trained to sample an unnormalised density without access to data samples. Contrary to the majority…

Pre-trained models have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP). However, existing pre-training methods underutilize the benefits of language understanding for generation. Inspired by the idea of Generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jian Yang , Shuming Ma , Li Dong , Shaohan Huang , Haoyang Huang , Yuwei Yin , Dongdong Zhang , Liqun Yang , Furu Wei , Zhoujun Li

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown great success in applications such as image generation and inpainting. However, they typically require large datasets, which are often not available, especially in the context of prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can produce high-quality samples, but do not provide an estimate of the probability density around the samples. However, it has been noted that maximizing the log-likelihood within an energy-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Omri Ben-Dov , Pravir Singh Gupta , Victoria Abrevaya , Michael J. Black , Partha Ghosh

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged as useful generative models, which are capable of implicitly learning data distributions of arbitrarily complex dimensions. However, the training of GANs is empirically well-known for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Cuong V. Nguyen , Tien-Dung Cao , Tram Truong-Huu , Khanh N. Pham , Binh T. Nguyen

Image classification datasets are often imbalanced, characteristic that negatively affects the accuracy of deep-learning classifiers. In this work we propose balancing GAN (BAGAN) as an augmentation tool to restore balance in imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Giovanni Mariani , Florian Scheidegger , Roxana Istrate , Costas Bekas , Cristiano Malossi

With the rapidly growing model complexity and data volume, training deep generative models (DGMs) for better performance has becoming an increasingly more important challenge. Previous research on this problem has mainly focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yufan Zhou , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

This paper proposes the decision tree latent controller generative adversarial network (DTLC-GAN), an extension of a GAN that can learn hierarchically interpretable representations without relying on detailed supervision. To impose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Takuhiro Kaneko , Kaoru Hiramatsu , Kunio Kashino

Deep generative models have shown immense potential in generating unseen data that has properties of real data. These models learn complex data-generating distributions starting from a smaller set of latent dimensions. However, generative…

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