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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

We propose to tackle the mode collapse problem in generative adversarial networks (GANs) by using multiple discriminators and assigning a different portion of each minibatch, called microbatch, to each discriminator. We gradually change…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Gonçalo Mordido , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) require flexible probability models that can be efficiently learned and sampled. Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are generative neural networks which can be trained to implicitly model the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Malte Probst

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) are a promising technique for modeling a distribution from samples. It is however well known that GAN training suffers from instability due to the nature of its maximin formulation. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Yujia Li , Alexander Schwing , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Richard Zemel

Generative networks are fundamentally different in their aim and methods compared to CNNs for classification, segmentation, or object detection. They have initially not been meant to be an image analysis tool, but to produce naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Markus Wenzel

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are performant generative methods yielding high-quality samples. However, under certain circumstances, the training of GANs can lead to mode collapse or mode dropping, i.e. the generative models not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Hannes De Meulemeester , Joachim Schreurs , Michaël Fanuel , Bart De Moor , Johan A. K. Suykens

The Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated impressive performance for data synthesis, and are now used in a wide range of computer vision tasks. In spite of this success, they gained a reputation for being difficult to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-07 Tatjana Chavdarova , François Fleuret

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

We propose MAD-GAN, an intuitive generalization to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and its conditional variants to address the well known problem of mode collapse. First, MAD-GAN is a multi-agent GAN architecture incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Arnab Ghosh , Viveka Kulharia , Vinay Namboodiri , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of deep generative models which aim to learn a target distribution in an unsupervised fashion. While they were successfully applied to many problems, training a GAN is a notoriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Karol Kurach , Mario Lucic , Xiaohua Zhai , Marcin Michalski , Sylvain Gelly

We present a novel method and analysis to train generative adversarial networks (GAN) in a stable manner. As shown in recent analysis, training is often undermined by the probability distribution of the data being zero on neighborhoods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

Over the past years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown a remarkable generation performance especially in image synthesis. Unfortunately, they are also known for having an unstable training process and might loose parts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Teodora Pandeva , Matthias Schubert

We introduce the Probabilistic Generative Adversarial Network (PGAN), a new GAN variant based on a new kind of objective function. The central idea is to integrate a probabilistic model (a Gaussian Mixture Model, in our case) into the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

Building on the success of deep learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) provide a modern approach to learn a probability distribution from observed samples. GANs are often formulated as a zero-sum game between two sets of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Pirazh Khorramshahi , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

Tuning curves characterizing the response selectivities of biological neurons often exhibit large degrees of irregularity and diversity across neurons. Theoretical network models that feature heterogeneous cell populations or random…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-20 Takafumi Arakaki , G. Barello , Yashar Ahmadian

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been extremely effective in approximating complex distributions of high-dimensional, input data samples, and substantial progress has been made in understanding and improving GAN performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Daniel Jiwoong Im , He Ma , Graham Taylor , Kristin Branson

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated their capability for producing high-quality images. However, a significant challenge remains mode collapse, which occurs when the generator produces a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Osman Goni , Himadri Saha Arka , Mithun Halder , Mir Moynuddin Ahmed Shibly , Swakkhar Shatabda

Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, commonly display unstable behavior during training. In this work, we develop a principled theoretical framework for understanding the stability of various types of GANs. In particular, we derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Casey Chu , Kentaro Minami , Kenji Fukumizu

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 (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