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Unsupervised learning of generative models has seen tremendous progress over recent years, in particular due to generative adversarial networks (GANs), variational autoencoders, and flow-based models. GANs have dramatically improved sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Thomas Lucas , Konstantin Shmelkov , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid , Jakob Verbeek

Generating realistic graph-structured data is challenging due to discrete connectivity, varying graph sizes, and class-specific structural patterns. Recent Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)-based graph generation methods improve edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 James Sargant , Seyedeh Ava Razi Razavi , Renata Dividino , Sheridan Houghten

We propose a new approach to train the Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) with a mixture of generators to overcome the mode collapsing problem. The main intuition is to employ multiple generators, instead of using a single one as in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Quan Hoang , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Trung Le , Dinh Phung

Recent procedural content generation via machine learning (PCGML) methods allow learning from existing content to produce similar content automatically. While these approaches are able to generate content for different games (e.g. Super…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Vanessa Volz , Niels Justesen , Sam Snodgrass , Sahar Asadi , Sami Purmonen , Christoffer Holmgård , Julian Togelius , Sebastian Risi

As academic interest in procedural content generation (PCG) for games has increased, so has the need for methodologies for comparing and contrasting the output spaces of alternative PCG systems. In this paper we introduce and evaluate a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Oliver Withington , Laurissa Tokarchuk

In this paper, we present a simple approach to train Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in order to avoid a \textit {mode collapse} issue. Implicit models such as GANs tend to generate better samples compared to explicit models that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Procedural 3D Terrain generation has become a necessity in open world games, as it can provide unlimited content, through a functionally infinite number of different areas, for players to explore. In our approach, we use Generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Emmanouil Panagiotou , Eleni Charou

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is an adversarial model, and it has been demonstrated to be effective for various generative tasks. However, GAN and its variants also suffer from many training problems, such as mode collapse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Junjie Li , Junwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Gong , Shuai Lü

Engineering design tasks often require synthesizing new designs that meet desired performance requirements. The conventional design process, which requires iterative optimization and performance evaluation, is slow and dependent on initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Amin Heyrani Nobari , Wei Chen , Faez Ahmed

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a powerful framework for generative tasks. However, they are difficult to train and tend to miss modes of the true data generation process. Although GANs can learn a rich representation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Robin Winter , Djork-Arné Clevert

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are powerful generative models but remain challenging to train due to pathologies suchas mode collapse and instability. Recent research has explored co-evolutionary approaches, in which populations of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Walter P. Casas , Jamal Toutouh

This study presents a novel method combining Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for generating packet-level header traces. By incorporating word2vec embeddings, this work significantly mitigates the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhen Xu

Several works have demonstrated the use of variational autoencoders (VAEs) for generating levels in the style of existing games and blending levels across different games. Further, quality-diversity (QD) algorithms have also become popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Anurag Sarkar , Seth Cooper

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are shown to be successful at generating new and realistic samples including 3D object models. Conditional GAN, a variant of GANs, allows generating samples in given conditions. However, objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Cihan Öngün , Alptekin Temizel

Many mathematical optimization algorithms fail to sufficiently explore the solution space of high-dimensional nonlinear optimization problems due to the curse of dimensionality. This paper proposes generative models as a complement to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Pouya Rezazadeh Kalehbasti , Michael D. Lepech , Samarpreet Singh Pandher

This paper describes an approach that combines generative adversarial networks (GANs) with interactive evolutionary computation (IEC). While GANs can be trained to produce lifelike images, they are normally sampled randomly from the learned…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Philip Bontrager , Wending Lin , Julian Togelius , Sebastian Risi

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have attracted much research attention recently, leading to impressive results for natural image generation. However, to date little success was observed in using GAN generated images for improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Xinlong Wang , Zhipeng Man , Mingyu You , Chunhua Shen

In this paper, we introduce Logic Tensor Network-Enhanced Generative Adversarial Network (LTN-GAN), a novel framework that enhances Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by incorporating Logic Tensor Networks (LTNs) to enforce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Nijesh Upreti , Vaishak Belle

Generative adversary networks (GANs) suffer from training pathologies such as instability and mode collapse. These pathologies mainly arise from a lack of diversity in their adversarial interactions. Evolutionary generative adversarial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Jamal Toutouh , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

We present variational generative adversarial networks, a general learning framework that combines a variational auto-encoder with a generative adversarial network, for synthesizing images in fine-grained categories, such as faces of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua