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The generative adversarial network (GAN) aims to approximate an unknown distribution via a parameterized neural network (NN). While GANs have been widely applied in reinforcement and semi-supervised learning as well as computer vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yu-Jui Huang , Hsin-Hua Shen , Yu-Chih Huang , Wan-Yi Lin , Shih-Chun Lin

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

Generative-adversarial networks (GANs) have been used to produce data closely resembling example data in a compressed, latent space that is close to sufficient for reconstruction in the original vector space. The Wasserstein metric has been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-10 Oliver Serang

While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have empirically produced impressive results on learning complex real-world distributions, recent works have shown that they suffer from lack of diversity or mode collapse. The theoretical work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Yu Bai , Tengyu Ma , Andrej Risteski

We study the ability of Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (WGAN) to generate missing audio content which is, in context, (statistically similar) to the sound and the neighboring borders. We deal with the challenge of audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 P. P. Ebner , A. Eltelt

Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) are very successful at modeling distributions from given samples, even in the high-dimensional case. However, their formulation is also known to be hard to optimize and often not stable. While this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Ishan Deshpande , Ziyu Zhang , Alexander Schwing

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great promise in modeling high dimensional data. The learning objective of GANs usually minimizes some measure discrepancy, \textit{e.g.}, $f$-divergence~($f$-GANs) or Integral Probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Yuxuan Song , Qiwei Ye , Minkai Xu , Tie-Yan Liu

In the years since Goodfellow et al. introduced Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there has been an explosion in the breadth and quality of generative model applications. Despite this work, GANs still have a long way to go before they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Conor Lazarou

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been effective for learning generative models for real-world data. However, existing GANs (GAN and its variants) tend to suffer from training problems such as instability and mode collapse. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Chaoyue Wang , Chang Xu , Xin Yao , Dacheng Tao

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

Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) can be used to generate realistic samples from complicated image distributions. The Wasserstein metric used in WGANs is based on a notion of distance between individual images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Jonas Adler , Sebastian Lunz

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are powerful generative models, but usually suffer from instability and generalization problem which may lead to poor generations. Most existing works focus on stabilizing the training of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Shufei Zhang , Zhuang Qian , Kaizhu Huang , Jimin Xiao , Yuan He

Generating realistic graph-structured data is challenging due to discrete structures, variable sizes, and class-specific connectivity patterns that resist conventional generative modelling. While recent graph generation methods employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Seyedeh Ava Razi Razavi , James Sargant , Sheridan Houghten , Renata Dividino

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a machine learning technique capable of producing high-quality synthetic images. In the field of materials science, when a crystallographic dataset includes inadequate or difficult-to-obtain…

When researchers develop new econometric methods it is common practice to compare the performance of the new methods to those of existing methods in Monte Carlo studies. The credibility of such Monte Carlo studies is often limited because…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-07-23 Susan Athey , Guido Imbens , Jonas Metzger , Evan Munro

Despite the remarkable empirical successes of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), the theoretical guarantees for their statistical accuracy remain rather pessimistic. In particular, the data distributions on which GANs are applied, such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-17 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Peter L. Bartlett

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the most robust and versatile techniques in the field of generative artificial intelligence. In this work, we report on an application of GANs in the domain of synthetic spectral data…

Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) provide a versatile class of models, which have attracted great attention in various applications. However, this framework has two main drawbacks: (i) Wasserstein-1 (or Earth-Mover)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-20 Xin Guo , Johnny Hong , Tianyi Lin , Nan Yang

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

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) and variational auto-encoders have significantly improved our distribution modeling capabilities, showing promise for dataset augmentation, image-to-image translation and feature learning. However, to…