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Generative adversarial networks (GAN) are a class of powerful machine learning techniques, where both a generative and discriminative model are trained simultaneously. GANs have been used, for example, to successfully generate "deep fake"…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Rakesh Nagaraju , Mark Stamp

Unsupervised learning with generative adversarial networks (GANs) has proven hugely successful. Regular GANs hypothesize the discriminator as a classifier with the sigmoid cross entropy loss function. However, we found that this loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Xudong Mao , Qing Li , Haoran Xie , Raymond Y. K. Lau , Zhen Wang , Stephen Paul Smolley

Recent work has shown significant progress in the direction of synthetic data generation using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). GANs have been applied in many fields of computer vision including text-to-image conversion, domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mkhuseli Ngxande , Jules-Raymond Tapamo , Michael Burke

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved great success in generating realistic images. Most of these are conditional models, although acquisition of class labels is expensive and time-consuming in practice. To reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Ce Wang , Zhangling Chen , Kun Shang

Unsupervised deep learning has recently demonstrated the promise of producing high-quality samples. While it has tremendous potential to promote the image colorization task, the performance is limited owing to the high-dimension of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Jin Li , Wanyun Li , Zichen Xu , Yuhao Wang , Qiegen Liu

This paper presents a new Text-to-Image generation model, named Distribution Regularization Generative Adversarial Network (DR-GAN), to generate images from text descriptions from improved distribution learning. In DR-GAN, we introduce two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hongchen Tan , Xiuping Liu , Baocai Yin , Xin Li

With the success of image generation, generative diffusion models are increasingly adopted for discriminative tasks, as pixel generation provides a unified perception interface. However, directly repurposing the generative denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ziqi Pang , Xin Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang

Deep hashing methods have been proved to be effective and efficient for large-scale Web media search. The success of these data-driven methods largely depends on collecting sufficient labeled data, which is usually a crucial limitation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Sheng Jin , Shangchen Zhou , Yao Liu , Chao Chen , Xiaoshuai Sun , Hongxun Yao , Xiansheng Hua

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are increasingly attracting attention in the computer vision, natural language processing, speech synthesis and similar domains. Arguably the most striking results have been in the area of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Zhengwei Wang , Qi She , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward , Graham Healy

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), as a framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process, have attracted huge attention and have proven to be powerful in a variety of tasks. However, training GANs is well known for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Zi-Yi Dou

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-resolution, realistic images across diverse natural distributions. However, their performance heavily relies on high-quality training data, making it challenging to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tianyu Chen , Yasi Zhang , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong , Mingyuan Zhou

Modern GANs excel at generating high quality and diverse images. However, when transferring the pretrained GANs on small target data (e.g., 10-shot), the generator tends to replicate the training samples. Several methods have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yunqing Zhao , Henghui Ding , Houjing Huang , Ngai-Man Cheung

Generating images via the generative adversarial network (GAN) has attracted much attention recently. However, most of the existing GAN-based methods can only produce low-resolution images of limited quality. Directly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Qingyao Wu , Qinfeng Shi , Mingkui Tan

We introduce a novel class of score-based diffusion processes that operate directly in the representation space of Lie groups. Leveraging the framework of Generalized Score Matching, we derive a class of Langevin dynamics that decomposes as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Marco Bertolini , Tuan Le , Djork-Arné Clevert

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce systematically better quality samples when class label information is provided., i.e. in the conditional GAN setup. This is still observed for the recently proposed Wasserstein GAN formulation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Guillermo L. Grinblat , Lucas C. Uzal , Pablo M. Granitto

Denoising Score Matching estimates the score of a noised version of a target distribution by minimizing a regression loss and is widely used to train the popular class of Denoising Diffusion Models. A well known limitation of Denoising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Valentin De Bortoli , Michael Hutchinson , Peter Wirnsberger , Arnaud Doucet

One of the main motivations for training high quality image generative models is their potential use as tools for image manipulation. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been able to generate images of remarkable quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Aviv Gabbay , Yedid Hoshen

Image denoising is a well-known and well studied problem, commonly targeting a minimization of the mean squared error (MSE) between the outcome and the original image. Unfortunately, especially for severe noise levels, such Minimum MSE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Bahjat Kawar , Gregory Vaksman , Michael Elad

Exponentiated gradient descent (EGD), a biologically motivated optimisation algorithm that respects Dale's law, produces log-normally distributed synaptic weights at convergence, in alignment with experimental observations in neuroscience.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Nishanth Shetty , Madhava Prasath , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Generative adversarial networks are used to generate images but still their convergence properties are not well understood. There have been a few studies who intended to investigate the stability properties of GANs as a dynamical system.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-15 Arash Mehrjou