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Image inpainting is a restoration method that reconstructs missing image parts. However, a carefully selected mask of known pixels that yield a high quality inpainting can also act as a sparse image representation. This challenging spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Pascal Peter

We propose a stable, parallel approach to train Wasserstein Conditional Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (W-CGANs) under the constraint of a fixed computational budget. Differently from previous distributed GANs training techniques,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Junqi Yin

The use of optimal transport cost for learning generative models has become popular with Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGAN). Training of WGAN relies on a theoretical background: the calculation of the gradient of the optimal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-04 Antoine Houdard , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis , Julien Rabin

This paper presents a novel method for accelerating path planning tasks in unknown scenes with obstacles by utilizing Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) with Gradient Penalty (GP) to approximate the distribution of the free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Jorge Ocampo Jimenez , Wael Suleiman

We use adversarial network architectures together with the Wasserstein distance to generate or refine simulated detector data. The data reflect two-dimensional projections of spatially distributed signal patterns with a broad spectrum of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-12 Martin Erdmann , Lukas Geiger , Jonas Glombitza , David Schmidt

We study the Wasserstein natural gradient in parametric statistical models with continuous sample spaces. Our approach is to pull back the $L^2$-Wasserstein metric tensor in the probability density space to a parameter space, equipping the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Yifan Chen , Wuchen Li

This paper raises an implicit manifold learning perspective in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), by studying how the support of the learned distribution, modelled as a submanifold $\mathcal{M}_{\theta}$, perfectly match with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-01 Kry Yik Chau Lui , Yanshuai Cao , Maxime Gazeau , Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang

Generative models based on latent variables, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational auto-encoders (VAEs), have gained lots of interests due to their impressive performance in many fields. However, many data such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-30 Yixuan Qiu , Qingyi Gao , Xiao Wang

Wasserstein barycenters have become popular due to their ability to represent the average of probability measures in a geometrically meaningful way. In this paper, we present an algorithm to approximate the Wasserstein-2 barycenters of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Alexander Korotin , Vage Egiazarian , Lingxiao Li , Evgeny Burnaev

To address the challenges in learning deep generative models (e.g.,the blurriness of variational auto-encoder and the instability of training generative adversarial networks, we propose a novel deep generative model, named…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Shunkang Zhang , Yuan Gao , Yuling Jiao , Jin Liu , Yang Wang , Can Yang

We train a generator by maximum likelihood and we also train the same generator architecture by Wasserstein GAN. We then compare the generated samples, exact log-probability densities and approximate Wasserstein distances. We show that an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Ivo Danihelka , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Benigno Uria , Daan Wierstra , Peter Dayan

This paper proposes a new theoretical lens to view Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (WGANs). To minimize the Wasserstein-1 distance between the true data distribution and our estimate of it, we derive a distribution-dependent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-05 Zachariah Malik , Yu-Jui Huang

Wasserstein GANs are based on the idea of minimising the Wasserstein distance between a real and a generated distribution. We provide an in-depth mathematical analysis of differences between the theoretical setup and the reality of training…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-06 Jan Stanczuk , Christian Etmann , Lisa Maria Kreusser , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

It has long been thought that high-dimensional data encountered in many practical machine learning tasks have low-dimensional structure, i.e., the manifold hypothesis holds. A natural question, thus, is to estimate the intrinsic dimension…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-01 Adam Block , Zeyu Jia , Yury Polyanskiy , Alexander Rakhlin

Generating realistic graph-structured data is challenging due to discrete structures, variable sizes, and class-specific connectivity patterns that resist conventional generative modelling. While recent graph generation methods employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Seyedeh Ava Razi Razavi , James Sargant , Sheridan Houghten , Renata Dividino

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a widely used framework for learning generative models. Wasserstein GANs (WGANs), one of the most successful variants of GANs, require solving a minmax optimization problem to global optimality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Qi Lei , Jason D. Lee , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Constantinos Daskalakis

We provide non asymptotic rates of convergence of the Wasserstein Generative Adversarial networks (WGAN) estimator. We build neural networks classes representing the generators and discriminators which yield a GAN that achieves the minimax…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Arthur Stéphanovitch , Eddie Aamari , Clément Levrard

We introduce a new algorithm named WGAN, an alternative to traditional GAN training. In this new model, we show that we can improve the stability of learning, get rid of problems like mode collapse, and provide meaningful learning curves…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-08 Martin Arjovsky , Soumith Chintala , Léon Bottou

In this paper, we study a physics-informed algorithm for Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) for uncertainty quantification in solutions of partial differential equations. By using groupsort activation functions in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Yihang Gao , Michael K. Ng

We develop a fast and scalable numerical approach to solve Wasserstein gradient flows (WGFs), particularly suitable for high-dimensional cases. Our approach is to use general reduced-order models, like deep neural networks, to parameterize…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Yijie Jin , Shu Liu , Hao Wu , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou