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Fast and accurate simulations of the non-linear evolution of the cosmic density field are a major component of many cosmological analyses, but the computational time and storage required to run them can be exceedingly large. For this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Richard M. Feder , Philippe Berger , George Stein

We study posterior sampling for inverse problems in discrete state spaces using discrete diffusion models as generative priors. While continuous diffusion models have become widely used for inverse problems, their discrete counterparts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chaitanya Amballa , Sattwik Basu , Jorge Vančo Sampedro , Romit Roy Choudhury

Lack of annotated samples greatly restrains the direct application of deep learning in remote sensing image scene classification. Although researches have been done to tackle this issue by data augmentation with various image transformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Dongao Ma , Ping Tang , Lijun Zhao

Deep generative models (DGMs) are effective on learning multilayered representations of complex data and performing inference of input data by exploring the generative ability. However, little work has been done on examining or empowering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Tianlin Shi , Bo Zhang

Computing the loss gradient via backpropagation consumes considerable energy during deep learning (DL) model training. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to efficiently compute DL models' gradients to mitigate the substantial energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Challapalli Phanindra Revanth , Sumohana S. Channappayya , C Krishna Mohan

Various controls over the generated data can be extracted from the latent space of a pre-trained GAN, as it implicitly encodes the semantics of the training data. The discovered controls allow to vary semantic attributes in the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Perla Doubinsky , Nicolas Audebert , Michel Crucianu , Hervé Le Borgne

This paper introduces a promising alternative method for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on large-scale datasets with clear theoretical guarantees. GANs are typically learned through a minimax game between a generator and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chang Wan , Ke Fan , Xinwei Sun , Yanwei Fu , Minglu Li , Yunliang Jiang , Zhonglong Zheng

Score-based generative models have recently achieved remarkable success. While they are usually parameterized by the score, an alternative way is to use a series of time-dependent energy-based models (EBMs), where the score is obtained from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-22 RuiKang OuYang , Louis Grenioux , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a recent advancement in unsupervised machine learning. They are a cat-and-mouse game between two neural networks: [1] a discriminator network which learns to validate whether a sample is real or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Olivia Curtis , Tereasa G. Brainerd

The discriminator from generative adversarial nets (GAN) has been used by researchers as a feature extractor in transfer learning and appeared worked well. However, there are also studies that believe this is the wrong research direction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Xin Mao , Zhaoyu Su , Pin Siang Tan , Jun Kang Chow , Yu-Hsing Wang

Langevin dynamics sampling suffers from extremely low generation speed, fundamentally limited by numerous fine-grained iterations to converge to the target distribution. We introduce PID-controlled Langevin Dynamics (PIDLD), a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hongyi Chen , Jianhai Shu , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Despite the proliferation of generative models, achieving fast sampling during inference without compromising sample diversity and quality remains challenging. Existing models such as Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) deliver…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yanwu Xu , Mingming Gong , Shaoan Xie , Wei Wei , Matthias Grundmann , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Tingbo Hou

As a kind of generative self-supervised learning methods, generative adversarial nets have been widely studied in the field of anomaly detection. However, the representation learning ability of the generator is limited since it pays too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Xuan Xia , Xizhou Pan , Xing He , Jingfei Zhang , Ning Ding , Lin Ma

Generative models serve as powerful tools for modeling the real world, with mainstream diffusion models, particularly those based on the latent diffusion model paradigm, achieving remarkable progress across various tasks, such as image and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wanghan Xu , Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Yao Teng , Wenlong Zhang , Xihui Liu , Luping Zhou , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai

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 Networks (GANs) have been used in several machine learning tasks such as domain transfer, super resolution, and synthetic data generation. State-of-the-art GANs often use tens of millions of parameters, making them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Angeline Aguinaldo , Ping-Yeh Chiang , Alex Gain , Ameya Patil , Kolten Pearson , Soheil Feizi

Class-conditional image generation using generative adversarial networks (GANs) has been investigated through various techniques; however, it continues to face challenges such as mode collapse, training instability, and low-quality output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Taesun Yeom , Minhyeok Lee

A promise of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is to provide cheap photorealistic data for training and validating AI models in autonomous driving. Despite their huge success, their performance on complex images featuring multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 George Eskandar , Youssef Farag , Tarun Yenamandra , Daniel Cremers , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

Latent space Energy-Based Models (EBMs), also known as energy-based priors, have drawn growing interests in the field of generative modeling due to its flexibility in the formulation and strong modeling power of the latent space. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Peiyu Yu , Yaxuan Zhu , Sirui Xie , Xiaojian Ma , Ruiqi Gao , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been widely used and have achieved competitive results in semi-supervised learning. This paper theoretically analyzes how GAN-based semi-supervised learning (GAN-SSL) works. We first prove that,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-14 Xuejiao Liu , Xueshuang Xiang