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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown impressive results in various image synthesis tasks. Vast studies have demonstrated that GANs are more powerful in feature and expression learning compared to other generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Omar De Mitri , Ruyu Wang , Marco F. Huber

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful models able to synthesize data samples closely resembling the distribution of real data, yet the diversity of those generated samples is limited due to the so-called mode collapse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jan Dubiński , Kamil Deja , Sandro Wenzel , Przemysław Rokita , Tomasz Trzciński

Generative Adversarial Networks are known for their high quality outputs and versatility. However, they also suffer the mode collapse in their output data distribution. There have been many efforts to revamp GANs model and reduce mode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Yicheng , Hong

Traditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) and many of its variants are trained by minimizing the KL or JS-divergence loss that measures how close the generated data distribution is from the true data distribution. A recent advance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Marios Savvides

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown immense potential in fields such as text and image generation. Only very recently attempts to exploit GANs to statistical-mechanics models have been reported. Here we quantitatively test…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Daniele Lanzoni , Olivier Pierre-Louis , Francesco Montalenti

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are very popular to generate realistic images, but they often suffer from the training instability issues and the phenomenon of mode loss. In order to attain greater diversity in GAN synthesized data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Blessen George , Vinod K. Kurmi , Vinay P. Namboodiri

We propose studying GAN training dynamics as regret minimization, which is in contrast to the popular view that there is consistent minimization of a divergence between real and generated distributions. We analyze the convergence of GAN…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Naveen Kodali , Jacob Abernethy , James Hays , Zsolt Kira

GANs are difficult to train due to convergence pathologies such as mode and discriminator collapse. We introduce Lipizzaner, an open source software system that allows machine learning engineers to train GANs in a distributed and robust…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Tom Schmiedlechner , Ignavier Ng Zhi Yong , Abdullah Al-Dujaili , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a powerful approach to unsupervised learning. They have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the image domain. However, GANs are limited in two ways. They often learn distributions with low…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei , Michalis K. Titsias

Recently, more and more works have proposed to drive evolutionary algorithms using machine learning models.Usually, the performance of such model based evolutionary algorithms is highly dependent on the training qualities of the adopted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Cheng He , Shihua Huang , Ran Cheng , Kay Chen Tan , Yaochu Jin

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown compelling results in various tasks and applications in recent years. However, mode collapse remains a critical problem in GANs. In this paper, we propose a novel training pipeline to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Haozhe Liu , Bing Li , Haoqian Wu , Hanbang Liang , Yawen Huang , Yuexiang Li , Bernard Ghanem , Yefeng Zheng

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in generation of unstructured data, such as, natural images. However, discovery and separation of modes in the generated space, essential for several tasks beyond naive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Deepak Mishra , Prathosh A. P. , Aravind Jayendran , Varun Srivastava , Santanu Chaudhury

In this paper, we study the generative models of sequential discrete data. To tackle the exposure bias problem inherent in maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), generative adversarial networks (GANs) are introduced to penalize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Sidi Lu , Lantao Yu , Siyuan Feng , Yaoming Zhu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

We introduce a novel framework for adversarial training where the target distribution is annealed between the uniform distribution and the data distribution. We posited a conjecture that learning under continuous annealing in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Arash Mehrjou , Bernhard Schölkopf , Saeed Saremi

Generative adversarial networks are used to generate images but still their convergence properties are not well understood. There have been a few studies who intended to investigate the stability properties of GANs as a dynamical system.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-15 Arash Mehrjou

We present a deep learning model for data-driven simulations of random dynamical systems without a distributional assumption. The deep learning model consists of a recurrent neural network, which aims to learn the time marching structure,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Kyongmin Yeo , Zan Li , Wesley M. Gifford

Despite the success of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image generation, the trade-off between visual quality and image diversity remains a significant issue. This paper achieves both aims simultaneously by improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Duhyeon Bang , Hyunjung Shim

Generative adversarial networks have achieved remarkable performance on various tasks but suffer from training instability. Despite many training strategies proposed to improve training stability, this issue remains as a challenge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Faqiang Liu , Mingkun Xu , Guoqi Li , Jing Pei , Luping Shi , Rong Zhao

We show that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) may be fruitfully exploited to learn stochastic dynamics, surrogating traditional models while capturing thermal fluctuations. Specifically, we showcase the application to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-30 Daniele Lanzoni , Olivier Pierre-Louis , Roberto Bergamaschini , Francesco Montalenti

The instability of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) training has frequently been attributed to gradient descent. Consequently, recent methods have aimed to tailor the models and training procedures to stabilise the discrete updates. In…