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Text-to-image models are powerful tools for image creation. However, the generation process is akin to a dice roll and makes it difficult to achieve a single image that captures everything a user wants. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sean J. Liu , Nupur Kumari , Ariel Shamir , Jun-Yan Zhu

Social network analysis is an important problem in data mining. A fundamental step for analyzing social networks is to encode network data into low-dimensional representations, i.e., network embeddings, so that the network topology…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Ninghao Liu , Xia Hu

Neural networks have greatly boosted performance in computer vision by learning powerful representations of input data. The drawback of end-to-end training for maximal overall performance are black-box models whose hidden representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Björn Ommer

Diffusion models have established themselves as state-of-the-art generative models across various data modalities, including images and videos, due to their ability to accurately approximate complex data distributions. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Daniel Wesego

The current understanding of deep neural networks can only partially explain how input structure, network parameters and optimization algorithms jointly contribute to achieve the strong generalization power that is typically observed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Francesco Craighero , Fabrizio Angaroni , Alex Graudenzi , Fabio Stella , Marco Antoniotti

The tremendous potential exhibited by deep learning is often offset by architectural and computational complexity, making widespread deployment a challenge for edge scenarios such as mobile and other consumer devices. To tackle this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Alexander Wong , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Brendan Chwyl , Francis Li

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computational primitives: deterministic neural-network evaluation and stochastic sampling. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nihal Sanjay Singh , Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved breakthrough performance in many pattern recognition tasks such as image classification. However, the development of high-quality deep models typically relies on a substantial amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Mengchen Liu , Jiaxin Shi , Zhen Li , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Shixia Liu

With the advent of future big-data surveys, automated tools for unsupervised discovery are becoming ever more necessary. In this work, we explore the ability of deep generative networks for detecting outliers in astronomical imaging…

Background: Deep neural networks have proven to be powerful computational tools for modeling, prediction, and generation. However, the workings of these models have generally been opaque. Recent work has shown that the performance of some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrew S. Nencka , L. Tugan Muftuler , Peter LaViolette , Kevin M. Koch

Learning, taking into account full distribution of the data, referred to as generative, is not feasible with deep neural networks (DNNs) because they model only the conditional distribution of the outputs given the inputs. Current solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Boris Flach , Alexander Shekhovtsov , Ondrej Fikar

Real networks exhibit nontrivial topological features such as heavy-tailed degree distribution, high clustering, and small-worldness. Researchers have developed several generative models for synthesizing artificial networks that are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Sadegh Motallebi , Sadegh Aliakbary , Jafar Habibi

Facial expressions are a form of non-verbal communication that humans perform seamlessly for meaningful transfer of information. Most of the literature addresses the facial expression recognition aspect however, with the advent of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 J. Rafid Siddiqui

Evolutionary computation methods have been successfully applied to neural networks since two decades ago, while those methods cannot scale well to the modern deep neural networks due to the complicated architectures and large quantities of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Gary G. Yen

We propose a manifold matching approach to generative models which includes a distribution generator (or data generator) and a metric generator. In our framework, we view the real data set as some manifold embedded in a high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mengyu Dai , Haibin Hang

Facial 3D Morphable Models are a main computer vision subject with countless applications and have been highly optimized in the last two decades. The tremendous improvements of deep generative networks have created various possibilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Stathis Galanakis , Baris Gecer , Alexandros Lattas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Deep generative models make visual content creation more accessible to novice users by automating the synthesis of diverse, realistic content based on a collected dataset. However, the current machine learning approaches miss a key element…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sheng-Yu Wang , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu

Portrait editing is a popular subject in photo manipulation. The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) advances the generating of realistic faces and allows more face editing. In this paper, we argue about three issues in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Hao Yang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Lu Yuan

Synthesizing visual content that meets users' needs often requires flexible and precise controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the generated objects. Existing approaches gain controllability of generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xingang Pan , Ayush Tewari , Thomas Leimkühler , Lingjie Liu , Abhimitra Meka , Christian Theobalt

Deep structured models are widely used for tasks like semantic segmentation, where explicit correlations between variables provide important prior information which generally helps to reduce the data needs of deep nets. However, current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Colin Graber , Ofer Meshi , Alexander Schwing