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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved a great success in unsupervised learning. Despite its remarkable empirical performance, there are limited theoretical studies on the statistical properties of GANs. This paper provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Minshuo Chen , Wenjing Liao , Hongyuan Zha , Tuo Zhao

Generating synthetic data for financial time series poses challenges, especially considering their non-stationary nature. Traditional statistical time series models normally assume weak stationarity. However, this assumption can constrain…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Marco Gregnanin , Johannes De Smedt , Giorgio Gnecco , Maurizio Parton

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one powerful type of deep learning models that have been successfully utilized in numerous fields. They belong to a broader family called generative methods, which generate new data with a…

Generative adversarial networks have been very successful in generative modeling, however they remain relatively challenging to train compared to standard deep neural networks. In this paper, we propose new visualization techniques for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Hugo Berard , Gauthier Gidel , Amjad Almahairi , Pascal Vincent , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Bayesian inference on structured models typically relies on the ability to infer posterior distributions of underlying hidden variables. However, inference in implicit models or complex posterior distributions is hard. A popular tool for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-16 Theofanis Karaletsos

Social network analysis faces profound difficulties in sharing data between researchers due to privacy and security concerns. A potential remedy to this issue are synthetic networks, that closely resemble their real counterparts, but can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Alex Davies , Nirav Ajmeri

Randomized neural networks (NNs) are an interesting alternative to conventional NNs that are more used for data modeling. The random vector functional-link (RVFL) network is an established and theoretically well-grounded randomized learning…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-24 Hien D. Nguyen , Dianhui Wang , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

In this paper, we propose a novel generative model named Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks (SGAN), which is trained to invert the hierarchical representations of a bottom-up discriminative network. Our model consists of a top-down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Xun Huang , Yixuan Li , Omid Poursaeed , John Hopcroft , Serge Belongie

We present a simple method for assessing the quality of generated images in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The method can be applied in any kind of GAN without interfering with the learning procedure or affecting the learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

Graph neural networks (GNNs), as the de-facto model class for representation learning on graphs, are built upon the multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) architecture with additional message passing layers to allow features to flow across nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Chenxiao Yang , Qitian Wu , Jiahua Wang , Junchi Yan

Generative models (GMs) such as Generative Adversary Network (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have thrived these years and achieved high quality results in generating new samples. Especially in Computer Vision, GMs have been used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Honggang Zhou , Yunchun Li , Hailong Yang , Wei Li , Jie Jia

Recent advancement in generative models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various data modalities. Beyond their typical use in data synthesis, these models play a crucial role in distribution matching tasks such as latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sagar Shrestha , Rajesh Shrestha , Tri Nguyen , Subash Timilsina

The paper proposes a data-driven approach to air-to-ground channel estimation in a millimeter-wave wireless network on an unmanned aerial vehicle. Unlike traditional centralized learning methods that are specific to certain geographical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Saira Bano , Pietro Cassarà , Nicola Tonellotto , Alberto Gotta

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and its variations are classic generative models by learning a low-dimensional latent representation to satisfy some prior distribution (e.g., Gaussian distribution). Their advantages over GAN are that they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Cong Geng , Jia Wang , Li Chen , Zhiyong Gao

The deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is the state-of-the-art solution for large-scale visual recognition. Following basic principles such as increasing the depth and constructing highway connections, researchers have manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Lingxi Xie , Alan Yuille

Bayesian Generative AI (BayesGen-AI) methods are developed and applied to Bayesian computation. BayesGen-AI reconstructs the posterior distribution by directly modeling the parameter of interest as a mapping (a.k.a. deep learner) from a…

Computation · Statistics 2024-02-27 Nicholas G. Polson , Vadim Sokolov

Deep generative models provide powerful tools for distributions over complicated manifolds, such as those of natural images. But many of these methods, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), can be difficult to train, in part…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Akash Srivastava , Lazar Valkov , Chris Russell , Michael U. Gutmann , Charles Sutton

Modern Generative Adversarial Networks are capable of creating artificial, photorealistic images from latent vectors living in a low-dimensional learned latent space. It has been shown that a wide range of images can be projected into this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Jonas Wulff , Antonio Torralba

Simulation-Grounded Neural Networks (SGNNs) are predictive models trained entirely on synthetic data from mechanistic simulations. They have achieved state-of-the-art performance in domains where real-world labels are limited or unobserved,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Carson Dudley , Marisa Eisenberg

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have demonstrated impressive results in modeling the distribution of natural images, learning latent representations that capture semantic variations in an unsupervised basis. Beyond the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Marcos Pividori , Guillermo L. Grinblat , Lucas C. Uzal