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Despite remarkable performance in producing realistic samples, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) often produce low-quality samples near low-density regions of the data manifold, e.g., samples of minor groups. Many techniques have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jinhee Lee , Haeri Kim , Youngkyu Hong , Hye Won Chung

Deep generative models have achieved impressive success in recent years. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), as emerging families for generative model learning, have largely been considered as two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Zhiting Hu , Zichao Yang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric P. Xing

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown much empirical success in solving perceptual tasks across various cognitive modalities. While they are only loosely inspired by the biological brain, recent studies report considerable similarities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Jonathan Mamou , Hang Le , Miguel Del Rio , Cory Stephenson , Hanlin Tang , Yoon Kim , SueYeon Chung

Modern GANs achieve remarkable performance in terms of generating realistic and diverse samples. This has led many to believe that ``GANs capture the training data manifold''. In this work we show that this interpretation is wrong. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Roy Friedman , Yair Weiss

A recent technical breakthrough in the domain of machine learning is the discovery and the multiple applications of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Those generative models are computationally demanding, as a GAN is composed of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Corentin Hardy , Erwan Le Merrer , Bruno Sericola

The automated prediction of facial beauty is a benchmark task in affective computing that requires a sophisticated understanding of both local aesthetic details (e.g., skin texture) and global facial harmony (e.g., symmetry, proportions).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Djamel Eddine Boukhari

Generative models (e.g., GANs, diffusion models) learn the underlying data distribution in an unsupervised manner. However, many applications of interest require sampling from a particular region of the output space or sampling evenly over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chen Henry Wu , Saman Motamed , Shaunak Srivastava , Fernando De la Torre

The unsupervised training of GANs and VAEs has enabled them to generate realistic images mimicking real-world distributions and perform image-based unsupervised clustering or semi-supervised classification. Combining the power of these two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran , Demetri Terzopoulos

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have led to the creation of realistic-looking digital images that pose a major challenge to their detection by humans or computers. GANs are used in a wide range of tasks, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Michael Goebel , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

Generative neural networks are able to mimic intricate probability distributions such as those of handwritten text, natural images, etc. Since their inception several models were proposed. The most successful of these were based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Daniel N. Nissani

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been remarkably successful at learning to sample from distributions specified by a given dataset, particularly if the given dataset is reasonably large compared to its dimensionality. However, given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Tiantian Fang , Ruoyu Sun , Alex Schwing

Unsupervised domain mapping has attracted substantial attention in recent years due to the success of models based on the cycle-consistency assumption. These models map between two domains by fooling a probabilistic discriminator, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Matthew Amodio , Smita Krishnaswamy

In this paper, we propose a data privacy-preserving and communication efficient distributed GAN learning framework named Distributed Asynchronized Discriminator GAN (AsynDGAN). Our proposed framework aims to train a central generator learns…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Qi Chang , Hui Qu , Yikai Zhang , Mert Sabuncu , Chao Chen , Tong Zhang , Dimitris Metaxas

Deep Generative Networks (DGNs) with probabilistic modeling of their output and latent space are currently trained via Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). In the absence of a known analytical form for the posterior and likelihood expectation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Randall Balestriero , Sebastien Paris , Richard G. Baraniuk

Most of the achievements in artificial intelligence so far were accomplished by supervised learning which requires numerous annotated training data and thus costs innumerable manpower for labeling. Unsupervised learning is one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Mingxiang Chen , Zhanguo Chang , Haonan Lu , Bitao Yang , Zhuang Li , Liufang Guo , Zhecheng Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are proficient at generating synthetic data but continue to suffer from mode collapse, where the generator produces a narrow range of outputs that fool the discriminator but fail to capture the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mahsa Valizadeh , Rui Tuo , James Caverlee

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

Learning meaningful representations using deep neural networks involves designing efficient training schemes and well-structured networks. Currently, the method of stochastic gradient descent that has a momentum with dropout is one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Taehoon Lee , Minsuk Choi , Sungroh Yoon

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in modeling complex data distributions for image-to-image translation. Still, their high computational demands prohibit their deployment in practical scenarios like edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Alireza Ganjdanesh , Shangqian Gao , Hirad Alipanah , Heng Huang