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A wide range of models have been proposed for Graph Generative Models, necessitating effective methods to evaluate their quality. So far, most techniques use either traditional metrics based on subgraph counting, or the representations of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-14 Hamed Shirzad , Kaveh Hassani , Danica J. Sutherland

Generative models have revolutionized multiple domains, yet their application to tabular data remains underexplored. Evaluating generative models for tabular data presents unique challenges due to structural complexity, large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Dayananda Herurkar , Ahmad Ali , Andreas Dengel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved significant success in generating real-valued data. However, the discrete nature of text hinders the application of GAN to text-generation tasks. Instead of using the standard GAN…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Liqun Chen , Shuyang Dai , Chenyang Tao , Dinghan Shen , Zhe Gan , Haichao Zhang , Yizhe Zhang , Lawrence Carin

Variational inference with Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) enables learning of highly tractable yet multi-modal approximations of intractable target distributions with up to a few hundred dimensions. The two currently most effective methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Oleg Arenz , Philipp Dahlinger , Zihan Ye , Michael Volpp , Gerhard Neumann

Despite an impressive performance from the latest GAN for generating hyper-realistic images, GAN discriminators have difficulty evaluating the quality of an individual generated sample. This is because the task of evaluating the quality of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Xiru Zhu , Fengdi Che , Tianzi Yang , Tzuyang Yu , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made great progress in synthesizing realistic images in recent years. However, they are often trained on image datasets with either too few samples or too many classes belonging to different data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Shichang Tang

Sparse inverse covariance estimation (i.e., edge de-tection) is an important research problem in recent years, wherethe goal is to discover the direct connections between a set ofnodes in a networked system based upon the observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Hang Yin , Xinyue Liu , Xiangnan Kong

Improving the diversity of generated results while maintaining high visual quality remains a significant challenge in image generation tasks. Fractal Generative Models (FGMs) are efficient in generating high-quality images, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Haowei Zhang , Yuanpei Zhao , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Mao Li

Recently, images are considered samples from a high-dimensional distribution, and deep learning has become almost synonymous with image generation. However, is a deep learning network truly necessary for image generation? In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Chenqiu Zhao , Guanfang Dong , Anup Basu

The generative adversarial network (GAN) is one of the most widely used deep generative models for synthesizing high-quality images with the same statistics as the training set. Finite element method (FEM) based property prediction often…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-03 Owais Ahmad , Vishal Panwar , Kaushik Das , Rajdip Mukherjee , Somnath Bhowmick

In this paper, we first propose a Bayesian neighborhood selection method to estimate Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs). We show the graph selection consistency of this method in the sense that the posterior probability of the true model…

Applications · Statistics 2015-07-08 Zhixiang Lin , Tao Wang , Can Yang , Hongyu Zhao

Recent advances in diffusion models have led to a quantum leap in the quality of generative visual content. However, quantification of realism of the content is still challenging. Existing evaluation metrics, such as Inception Score and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yunzhuo Chen , Naveed Akhtar , Nur Al Hasan Haldar , Ajmal Mian

Functional connectivity analysis is an important tool for characterizing interactions among brain regions, particularly in studies of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) provide a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-14 Panpan Zhang , Shiying Xiao , W. Hudson Robb , Dandan Liu , Angela L. Jefferson , Jun Yan

Diffusion models (DMs) are a type of generative model that has a huge impact on image synthesis and beyond. They achieve state-of-the-art generation results in various generative tasks. A great diversity of conditioning inputs, such as text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Weiguo Lu , Xuan Wu , Deng Ding , Jinqiao Duan , Jirong Zhuang , Gangnan Yuan

Functional brain networks are well described and estimated from data with Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs), e.g. using sparse inverse covariance estimators. Comparing functional connectivity of subjects in two populations calls for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-21 Eugene Belilovsky , Gaël Varoquaux , Matthew B. Blaschko

The estimation of the generalization error of classifiers often relies on a validation set. Such a set is hardly available in few-shot learning scenarios, a highly disregarded shortcoming in the field. In these scenarios, it is common to…

This work considers the problem of computing distances between structured objects such as undirected graphs, seen as probability distributions in a specific metric space. We consider a new transportation distance (i.e. that minimizes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Titouan Vayer , Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Nicolas Courty

Most evaluations of generative models rely on feature-distribution metrics such as FID, which operate on continuous recognition features that are explicitly trained to be invariant to appearance variations, and thus discard cues critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zexi Jia , Pengcheng Luo , Yijia Zhong , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGM) are often used to describe the conditional correlations between the components of a random vector. In this article, we compare two families of GGM inference methods: nodewise edge selection and penalised…

Diffusion models and Flow Matching generate high-quality samples but are slow at inference, and distilling them into few-step models often leads to instability and extensive tuning. To resolve these trade-offs, we propose Inductive Moment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Linqi Zhou , Stefano Ermon , Jiaming Song