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Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance on many generative tasks. Despite recent success, most diffusion models are restricted in that they only allow linear transformation of the data distribution. In contrast, broader family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Grigory Bartosh , Dmitry Vetrov , Christian A. Naesseth

Diffusion-based generative models are a design framework that allows generating new images from processes analogous to those found in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. These models model the reversal of a physical diffusion process in which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jordi de la Torre

Humans excel at discovering regular structures from limited samples and applying inferred rules to novel settings. We investigate whether modern generative models can similarly learn underlying rules from finite samples and perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Binxu Wang , Jiaqi Shang , Haim Sompolinsky

We introduce deep neural networks for the analysis of anatomical shapes that learn a low-dimensional shape representation from the given task, instead of relying on hand-engineered representations. Our framework is modular and consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Benjamin Gutierrez Becker , Ignacio Sarasua , Christian Wachinger

By pretraining to synthesize coherent images from perturbed inputs, generative models inherently learn to understand object boundaries and scene compositions. How can we repurpose these generative representations for general-purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Om Khangaonkar , Hamed Pirsiavash

Probabilistic generative models can be used for compression, denoising, inpainting, texture synthesis, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised feature learning, and other tasks. Given this wide range of applications, it is not surprising…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-26 Lucas Theis , Aäron van den Oord , Matthias Bethge

Generative models, such as large language models and text-to-image diffusion models, produce relevant information when presented a query. Different models may produce different information when presented the same query. As the landscape of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Aranyak Acharyya , Michael W. Trosset , Carey E. Priebe , Hayden S. Helm

Deep generative models (DGMs) are data-eager because learning a complex model on limited data suffers from a large variance and easily overfits. Inspired by the classical perspective of the bias-variance tradeoff, we propose regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yong Zhong , Hongtao Liu , Xiaodong Liu , Fan Bao , Weiran Shen , Chongxuan Li

The rapid advancement of generative models, such as Stable Diffusion, raises a key question: how can synthetic data from these models enhance predictive modeling? While they can generate vast amounts of datasets, only a subset meaningfully…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-09 Jialong Jiang , Wenkang Hu , Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Xu Liu

GANs provide a framework for training generative models which mimic a data distribution. However, in many cases we wish to train these generative models to optimize some auxiliary objective function within the data it generates, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Andrew Kyle Lampinen , David So , Douglas Eck , Fred Bertsch

Adapting neural networks to new tasks typically requires task-specific fine-tuning, which is time-consuming and reliant on labeled data. We explore a generative alternative that produces task-specific parameters directly from task identity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Hui Guan

Deep neural networks have been shown to be very successful at learning feature hierarchies in supervised learning tasks. Generative models, on the other hand, have benefited less from hierarchical models with multiple layers of latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Shengjia Zhao , Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon

We explore whether useful temporal neural generative models can be learned from sequential data without back-propagation through time. We investigate the viability of a more neurocognitively-grounded approach in the context of unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Alexander G. Ororbia , Patrick Haffner , David Reitter , C. Lee Giles

We study unsupervised learning by developing introspective generative modeling (IGM) that attains a generator using progressively learned deep convolutional neural networks. The generator is itself a discriminator, capable of introspection:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Justin Lazarow , Long Jin , Zhuowen Tu

Generative methods (Gen-AI) are reviewed with a particular goal of solving tasks in machine learning and Bayesian inference. Generative models require one to simulate a large training dataset and to use deep neural networks to solve a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-20 Maria Nareklishvili , Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

We describe a method to train a generative model with latent factors that are (approximately) independent and localized. This means that perturbing the latent variables affects only local regions of the synthesized image, corresponding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yanchao Yang , Yutong Chen , Stefano Soatto

Data-driven generative 3D face models are used to compactly encode facial shape data into meaningful parametric representations. A desirable property of these models is their ability to effectively decouple natural sources of variation, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , Adnane Boukhayma , Stefanie Wuhrer , Edmond Boyer

Decomposing a deep neural network's learned representations into interpretable features could greatly enhance its safety and reliability. To better understand features, we adopt a geometric perspective, viewing them as a learned coordinate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aryeh Brill

We present a deep generative scene modeling technique for indoor environments. Our goal is to train a generative model using a feed-forward neural network that maps a prior distribution (e.g., a normal distribution) to the distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Zaiwei Zhang , Zhenpei Yang , Chongyang Ma , Linjie Luo , Alexander Huth , Etienne Vouga , Qixing Huang

Recent work introduced progressive network growing as a promising way to ease the training for large GANs, but the model design and architecture-growing strategy still remain under-explored and needs manual design for different image data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Lanlan Liu , Yuting Zhang , Jia Deng , Stefano Soatto