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In this paper we address the instability issue of generative adversarial network (GAN) by proposing a new similarity metric in unitary space of Schur decomposition for 2D representations of audio and speech signals. We show that encoding…

Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, commonly display unstable behavior during training. In this work, we develop a principled theoretical framework for understanding the stability of various types of GANs. In particular, we derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Casey Chu , Kentaro Minami , Kenji Fukumizu

Despite recent progress in generative image modeling, successfully generating high-resolution, diverse samples from complex datasets such as ImageNet remains an elusive goal. To this end, we train Generative Adversarial Networks at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Andrew Brock , Jeff Donahue , Karen Simonyan

In this paper, we propose a novel normalization method called gradient normalization (GN) to tackle the training instability of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) caused by the sharp gradient space. Unlike existing work such as gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yi-Lun Wu , Hong-Han Shuai , Zhi-Rui Tam , Hong-Yu Chiu

We present a novel method and analysis to train generative adversarial networks (GAN) in a stable manner. As shown in recent analysis, training is often undermined by the probability distribution of the data being zero on neighborhoods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

Despite success on a wide range of problems related to vision, generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffer from inferior performance due to unstable training, especially for text generation. To solve this issue, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yue Wu , Pan Zhou , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

We introduce effective training algorithms for Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to alleviate mode collapse and gradient vanishing. In our system, we constrain the generator by an Autoencoder (AE). We propose a formulation to consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Tuan-Anh Bui , Ngai-Man Cheung

Enhancing speech quality under adverse SNR conditions remains a significant challenge for discriminative deep neural network (DNN)-based approaches. In this work, we propose DisCoGAN, which is a time-frequency-domain generative adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Andreas Brendel

Popular neural network-based speech enhancement systems operate on the magnitude spectrogram and ignore the phase mismatch between the noisy and clean speech signals. Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) show promise in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Deepak Baby

We suggest ways to enforce given constraints in the output of a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) generator both for interpolation and extrapolation (prediction). For the case of dynamical systems, given a time series, we wish to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Panos Stinis , Tobias Hagge , Alexandre M. Tartakovsky , Enoch Yeung

GANs have matured in recent years and are able to generate high-resolution, realistic images. However, the computational resources and the data required for the training of high-quality GANs are enormous, and the study of transfer learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Héctor Laria , Yaxing Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Bogdan Raducanu

Training generative adversarial networks is unstable in high-dimensions as the true data distribution tends to be concentrated in a small fraction of the ambient space. The discriminator is then quickly able to classify nearly all generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Behnam Neyshabur , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Ayan Chakrabarti

Leveraging machine learning methods to solve constraint satisfaction problems has shown promising, but they are mostly limited to a static situation where the problem description is completely known and fixed from the beginning. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wook Lee , Frans A. Oliehoek

We introduce a simple (one line of code) modification to the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) training algorithm that materially improves results with no increase in computational cost: When updating the generator parameters, we simply…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-26 Samarth Sinha , Zhengli Zhao , Anirudh Goyal , Colin Raffel , Augustus Odena

In this paper, we propose a novel variational generator framework for conditional GANs to catch semantic details for improving the generation quality and diversity. Traditional generators in conditional GANs simply concatenate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mingqi Hu , Deyu Zhou , Yulan He

Generative speech enhancement methods based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models have shown promising results in various speech enhancement tasks. However, their performance in very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Andreas Brendel

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are known to be difficult to train, despite considerable research effort. Several regularization techniques for stabilizing training have been proposed, but they introduce non-trivial computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Han Zhang , Zizhao Zhang , Augustus Odena , Honglak Lee

Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) have demonstrated remarkable success due to their class-wise controllability and superior quality for complex generation tasks. Typical cGANs solve the joint distribution matching problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Kyeongbo Kong , Kyunghun Kim , Suk-Ju Kang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enjoy great success at image generation, but have proven difficult to train in the domain of natural language. Challenges with gradient estimation, optimization instability, and mode collapse have lead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Cyprien de Masson d'Autume , Mihaela Rosca , Jack Rae , Shakir Mohamed

In order to alleviate the notorious mode collapse phenomenon in generative adversarial networks (GANs), we propose a novel training method of GANs in which certain fake samples are considered as real ones during the training process. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Song Tao , Jia Wang
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