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We propose a discrete latent distribution for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Instead of drawing latent vectors from a continuous prior, we sample from a finite set of learnable latents. However, a direct parametrization of such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Evangelos Ntavelis , Mohamad Shahbazi , Iason Kastanis , Radu Timofte , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool

Unsupervised learning of generative models has seen tremendous progress over recent years, in particular due to generative adversarial networks (GANs), variational autoencoders, and flow-based models. GANs have dramatically improved sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Thomas Lucas , Konstantin Shmelkov , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid , Jakob Verbeek

This paper proposes a new type of generative model that is able to quickly learn a latent representation without an encoder. This is achieved using empirical Bayes to calculate the expectation of the posterior, which is implemented by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Sam Bond-Taylor , Chris G. Willcocks

We propose a novel training procedure for improving the performance of generative adversarial networks (GANs), especially to bidirectional GANs. First, we enforce that the empirical distribution of the inverse inference network matches the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-26 Pablo Sánchez-Martín , Pablo M. Olmos , Fernando Perez-Cruz

We formulate a new class of conditional generative models based on probability flows. Trained with maximum likelihood, it provides efficient inference and sampling from class-conditionals or the joint distribution, and does not require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Micha Livne , David Fleet

The problem of learning the structure of a high dimensional graphical model from data has received considerable attention in recent years. In many applications such as sensor networks and proteomics it is often expensive to obtain samples…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-08 Gautam Dasarathy , Aarti Singh , Maria-Florina Balcan , Jong Hyuk Park

Imitation Learning offers a promising approach to learn directly from data without requiring explicit models, simulations, or detailed task definitions. During inference, actions are sampled from the learned distribution and executed on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon , Michael Gienger , Fan Zhang

Despite a widespread success in various applications, large language models (LLMs) often stumble when tackling basic physical reasoning or executing robotics tasks, due to a lack of direct experience with the physical nuances of the real…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Haolan Liu , Jishen Zhao

In this paper, we propose a novel variable selection approach in the framework of high-dimensional linear models where the columns of the design matrix are highly correlated. It consists in rewriting the initial high-dimensional linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Wencan Zhu , Eric Adjakossa , Céline Lévy-Leduc , Nils Ternès

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in various tasks and have been extensively utilized by the public. However, the increasing concerns regarding the misuse of LLMs, such as plagiarism and spamming, have led to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Ning Lu , Shengcai Liu , Rui He , Qi Wang , Yew-Soon Ong , Ke Tang

GAIL is a recent successful imitation learning architecture that exploits the adversarial training procedure introduced in GANs. Albeit successful at generating behaviours similar to those demonstrated to the agent, GAIL suffers from a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Lionel Blondé , Alexandros Kalousis

Understating and controlling generative models' latent space is a complex task. In this paper, we propose a novel method for learning to control any desired attribute in a pre-trained GAN's latent space, for the purpose of editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Nir Diamant , Nitsan Sandor , Alex M Bronstein

Stochastic Interpolants (SI) is a powerful framework for generative modeling, capable of flexibly transforming between two probability distributions. However, its use in jointly optimized latent variable models remains unexplored as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Saurabh Singh , Dmitry Lagun

Strategic classification~(SC) explores how individuals or entities modify their features strategically to achieve favorable classification outcomes. However, existing SC methods, which are largely based on linear models or shallow neural…

In many applications labeled data is not readily available, and needs to be collected via pain-staking human supervision. We propose a rule-exemplar method for collecting human supervision to combine the efficiency of rules with the quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Abhijeet Awasthi , Sabyasachi Ghosh , Rasna Goyal , Sunita Sarawagi

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

We propose a novel graphical model selection (GMS) scheme for high-dimensional stationary time series or discrete time process. The method is based on a natural generalization of the graphical LASSO (gLASSO), introduced originally for GMS…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-19 Alexander Jung , Gabor Hannak , Norbert Görtz

Training-free perceptual image codec adopt pre-trained unconditional generative model during decoding to avoid training new conditional generative model. However, they heavily rely on diffusion inversion or sample communication, which take…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Ziran Zhu , Tongda Xu , Minye Huang , Dailan He , Xingtong Ge , Xinjie Zhang , Ling Li , Yan Wang

Training effective Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) requires large amounts of training data, without which the trained models are usually sub-optimal with discriminator over-fitting. Several prior studies address this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kaiwen Cui , Jiaxing Huang , Zhipeng Luo , Gongjie Zhang , Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu

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…

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