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Generative adversarial network (GAN) is a minimax game between a generator mimicking the true model and a discriminator distinguishing the samples produced by the generator from the real training samples. Given an unconstrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Farzan Farnia , David Tse

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the greatest advances in AI in recent years. With their ability to directly learn the probability distribution of data, and then sample synthetic realistic data. Many applications have…

We show that training of generative adversarial network (GAN) may not have good generalization properties; e.g., training may appear successful but the trained distribution may be far from target distribution in standard metrics. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Yingyu Liang , Tengyu Ma , Yi Zhang

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

In an effort to address the training instabilities of GANs, we introduce a class of dual-objective GANs with different value functions (objectives) for the generator (G) and discriminator (D). In particular, we model each objective using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Monica Welfert , Kyle Otstot , Gowtham R. Kurri , Lalitha Sankar

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are popular and successful generative models. Despite their success, optimization is notoriously challenging. In this work, we explain the success and limitations of GANs by casting them as Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Maurizio Filippone , Marius P. Linhard

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are powerful tools for learning generative models. In practice, the training may suffer from lack of convergence. GANs are commonly viewed as a two-player zero-sum game between two neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Hao Ge , Yin Xia , Xu Chen , Randall Berry , Ying Wu

Despite the successes in capturing continuous distributions, the application of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to discrete settings, like natural language tasks, is rather restricted. The fundamental reason is the difficulty of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Tong Che , Yanran Li , Ruixiang Zhang , R Devon Hjelm , Wenjie Li , Yangqiu Song , Yoshua Bengio

Robust utility optimization enables an investor to deal with market uncertainty in a structured way, with the goal of maximizing the worst-case outcome. In this work, we propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) approach to…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-19 Florian Krach , Josef Teichmann , Hanna Wutte

We study a variant of a recently introduced min-max optimization framework where the max-player is constrained to update its parameters in a greedy manner until it reaches a first-order stationary point. Our equilibrium definition for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Vijay Keswani , Oren Mangoubi , Sushant Sachdeva , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Training neural networks that require adversarial optimization, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and unsupervised domain adaptations (UDAs), suffers from instability. This instability problem comes from the difficulty of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-05 Takashi Furuya , Satoshi Okuda , Kazuma Suetake , Yoshihide Sawada

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable results in the task of generating realistic natural images. In most successful applications, GAN models share two common aspects: solving a challenging saddle point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , David Lopez-Paz , Arthur Szlam

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are formulated as minimax game problems, whereby generators attempt to approach real data distributions by virtue of adversarial learning against discriminators. The intrinsic problem complexity poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yuesong Tian , Li Shen , Li Shen , Guinan Su , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a framework for producing a generative model by way of a two-player minimax game. In this paper, we propose the \emph{Generative Multi-Adversarial Network} (GMAN), a framework that extends GANs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Ishan Durugkar , Ian Gemp , Sridhar Mahadevan

This paper studies generative adversarial networks (GANs) from the perspective of statistical inference. A GAN is a popular machine learning method in which the parameters of two neural networks, a generator and a discriminator, are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Mika Meitz

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) approximate a target data distribution by jointly optimizing an objective function through a "two-player game" between a generator and a discriminator. Despite their empirical success, however, two very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Shuang Liu , Olivier Bousquet , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a widely-used tool for generative modeling of complex data. Despite their empirical success, the training of GANs is not fully understood due to the min-max optimization of the generator and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Evan Becker , Parthe Pandit , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have brought about rapid progress towards generating photorealistic images. Yet the equitable allocation of their modeling capacity among subgroups has received less attention, which could lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Ning Yu , Ke Li , Peng Zhou , Jitendra Malik , Larry Davis , Mario Fritz

Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) is known to be difficult, especially for financial time series. This paper first analyzes the well-posedness problem in GANs minimax games and the convexity issue in GANs objective functions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-28 Othmane Mounjid , Xin Guo

We present a framework to understand GAN training as alternating density ratio estimation and approximate divergence minimization. This provides an interpretation for the mismatched GAN generator and discriminator objectives often used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ben Poole , Alexander A. Alemi , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Anelia Angelova