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Overfitting is one of the most common problems when training deep neural networks on comparatively small datasets. Here, we demonstrate that neural network activation sparsity is a reliable indicator for overfitting which we utilize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Karim Huesmann , Soeren Klemm , Lars Linsen , Benjamin Risse

A reliable critic is central to on-policy actor-critic learning. But it becomes challenging to learn a reliable critic in a multi-agent sparse reward scenario due to two factors: 1) The joint action space grows exponentially with the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Kinal Mehta , Anuj Mahajan , Pawan Kumar

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) is a recent training method that relies on worst-case weight perturbations which significantly improves generalization in various settings. We argue that the existing justifications for the success of SAM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Maksym Andriushchenko , Nicolas Flammarion

The outcome of text recognition for degraded color documents is often unsatisfactory due to interference from various contaminants. To extract information more efficiently for text recognition, document image enhancement and binarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Rui-Yang Ju , KokSheik Wong , Jen-Shiun Chiang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are powerful generative models, but usually suffer from instability and generalization problem which may lead to poor generations. Most existing works focus on stabilizing the training of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Shufei Zhang , Zhuang Qian , Kaizhu Huang , Jimin Xiao , Yuan He

Unsupervised domain adaptation seeks to mitigate the distribution discrepancy between source and target domains, given labeled samples of the source domain and unlabeled samples of the target domain. Generative adversarial networks (GANs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Mohammad Mahfujur Rahman , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are currently an indispensable tool for visual editing, being a standard component of image-to-image translation and image restoration pipelines. Furthermore, GANs are especially useful for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Anton Cherepkov , Andrey Voynov , Artem Babenko

In recent years, considerable advancements have been made in the area of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), particularly with the advent of style-based architectures that address many key shortcomings - both in terms of modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Nikos Kostagiolas , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Yannis Panagakis

With great progress in the development of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), in recent years, the quest for insights in understanding and manipulating the latent space of GAN has gained more and more attention due to its wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Toan Pham Van , Tam Minh Nguyen , Ngoc N. Tran , Hoai Viet Nguyen , Linh Bao Doan , Huy Quang Dao , Thanh Ta Minh

In this paper, we aim to understand the generalization properties of generative adversarial networks (GANs) from a new perspective of privacy protection. Theoretically, we prove that a differentially private learning algorithm used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Bingzhe Wu , Shiwan Zhao , ChaoChao Chen , Haoyang Xu , Li Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Guangyu Sun , Jun Zhou

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is currently widely used as an unsupervised image generation method. Current state-of-the-art GANs can generate photorealistic images with high resolution. However, a large amount of data is required,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Pengwei Wang

Self-attention networks (SANs) have drawn increasing interest due to their high parallelization in computation and flexibility in modeling dependencies. SANs can be further enhanced with multi-head attention by allowing the model to attend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Baosong Yang , Longyue Wang , Derek Wong , Lidia S. Chao , Zhaopeng Tu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven effective in modeling distributions of high-dimensional data. However, their training instability is a well-known hindrance to convergence, which results in practical challenges in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Alessandro Ferrero , Shireen Elhabian , Ross Whitaker

Ideally, what confuses neural network should be confusing to humans. However, recent experiments have shown that small, imperceptible perturbations can change the network prediction. To address this gap in perception, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Alexander Matyasko , Lap-Pui Chau

Normalization techniques have only recently begun to be exploited in supervised learning tasks. Batch normalization exploits mini-batch statistics to normalize the activations. This was shown to speed up training and result in better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Mengye Ren , Renjie Liao , Raquel Urtasun , Fabian H. Sinz , Richard S. Zemel

The generative adversarial network (GAN) framework has emerged as a powerful tool for various image and video synthesis tasks, allowing the synthesis of visual content in an unconditional or input-conditional manner. It has enabled the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ming-Yu Liu , Xun Huang , Jiahui Yu , Ting-Chun Wang , Arun Mallya

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted growing interest in both computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence, primarily due to their inherent energy efficiency and compact memory footprint. However, achieving adversarial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Luu Trong Nhan , Luu Trung Duong , Pham Ngoc Nam , Truong Cong Thang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can synthesize realistic images, with the learned latent space shown to encode rich semantic information with various interpretable directions. However, due to the unstructured nature of the learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Zikun Chen , Han Zhao , Parham Aarabi , Ruowei Jiang

Recent research has proposed the use of Semi Adversarial Networks (SAN) for imparting privacy to face images. SANs are convolutional autoencoders that perturb face images such that the perturbed images cannot be reliably used by an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Vahid Mirjalili , Sebastian Raschka , Arun Ross

Detecting changed regions in paired satellite images plays a key role in many remote sensing applications. The evolution of recent techniques could provide satellite images with very high spatial resolution (VHR) but made it challenging to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Caijun Ren , Xiangyu Wang , Jian Gao , Huanhuan Chen