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Mode collapse is a critical problem in training generative adversarial networks. To alleviate mode collapse, several recent studies introduce new objective functions, network architectures or alternative training schemes. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Duhyeon Bang , Hyunjung Shim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a class of generative models used for various applications, but they have been known to suffer from the mode collapse problem, in which some modes of the target distribution are ignored by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Karttikeya Mangalam , Rohin Garg

In this paper, we propose CKGAN, a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) variant based on an integral probability metrics framework with characteristic kernel (CKIPM). CKIPM, as a distance between two probability distributions, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Kuntian Zhang , Simin Yu , Yaoshu Wang , Makoto Onizuka , Chuan Xiao

Biomedical image datasets can be imbalanced due to the rarity of targeted diseases. Generative Adversarial Networks play a key role in addressing this imbalance by enabling the generation of synthetic images to augment datasets. It is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Muhammad Muneeb Saad , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Ruairi O'Reilly

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are trained to generate sample images of interest distribution. To this end, generator network of GAN learns implicit distribution of real data set from the classification with candidate generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Gahye Lee , Seungkyu Lee

Training deep generative models usually requires a large amount of data. To alleviate the data collection cost, the task of zero-shot GAN adaptation aims to reuse well-trained generators to synthesize images of an unseen target domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Seogkyu Jeon , Bei Liu , Pilhyeon Lee , Kibeom Hong , Jianlong Fu , Hyeran Byun

The two key players in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), the discriminator and generator, are usually parameterized as deep neural networks (DNNs). On many generative tasks, GANs achieve state-of-the-art performance but are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Babajide O. Ayinde , Keishin Nishihama , Jacek M. Zurada

Imbalanced image datasets are commonly available in the domain of biomedical image analysis. Biomedical images contain diversified features that are significant in predicting targeted diseases. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Muhammad Muneeb Saad , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Ruairi O'Reilly

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) (Goodfellow et al., 2014) are an effective method for training generative models of complex data such as natural images. However, they are notoriously hard to train and can suffer from the problem of…

Despite excellent progress in recent years, mode collapse remains a major unsolved problem in generative adversarial networks (GANs).In this paper, we present spectral regularization for GANs (SR-GANs), a new and robust method for combating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kanglin Liu , Wenming Tang , Fei Zhou , Guoping Qiu

In this paper, we introduce DuelGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) solution to improve the stability of the generated samples and to mitigate mode collapse. Built upon the Vanilla GAN's two-player game between the discriminator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jiaheng Wei , Minghao Liu , Jiahao Luo , Andrew Zhu , James Davis , Yang Liu

In conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs), when two different initial noises are concatenated with the same conditional information, the distance between their outputs is relatively smaller, which makes minor modes likely to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Mengxiao Hu , Jinlong Li , Maolin Hu , Tao Hu

The fact that image datasets are often imbalanced poses an intense challenge for deep learning techniques. In this paper, we propose a method to restore the balance in imbalanced images, by coalescing two concurrent methods, generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Linlin Shen , Abdul Hamid Sadka , Jie Yang

Modern GANs excel at generating high quality and diverse images. However, when transferring the pretrained GANs on small target data (e.g., 10-shot), the generator tends to replicate the training samples. Several methods have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yunqing Zhao , Henghui Ding , Houjing Huang , Ngai-Man Cheung

The advancement of generative AI, particularly in medical imaging, confronts the trilemma of ensuring high fidelity, diversity, and efficiency in synthetic data generation. While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lorenzo Tronchin , Tommy Löfstedt , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi

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

Dual discriminator generative adversarial networks (D2 GANs) were introduced to mitigate the problem of mode collapse in generative adversarial networks. In D2 GANs, two discriminators are employed alongside a generator: one discriminator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Penukonda Naga Chandana , Tejas Srivastava , Gowtham R. Kurri , V. Lalitha

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is currently widely used as an unsupervised image generation method. Current state-of-the-art GANs can generate photorealistic images with high resolution. However, a large amount of data is required,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Pengwei Wang

We propose two new techniques for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Our objectives are to alleviate mode collapse in GAN and improve the quality of the generated samples. First, we propose neighbor embedding, a manifold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Tuan-Anh Bui , Ngai-Man Cheung

Most existing text-to-image generation methods adopt a multi-stage modular architecture which has three significant problems: 1) Training multiple networks increases the run time and affects the convergence and stability of the generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhenxing Zhang , Lambert Schomaker