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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the greatest advances in AI in recent years. With their ability to directly learn the probability distribution of data, and then sample synthetic realistic data. Many applications have…

We evaluate the distribution learning capabilities of generative adversarial networks by testing them on synthetic datasets. The datasets include common distributions of points in $R^n$ space and images containing polygons of various shapes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Amit Rege , Claire Monteleoni

In this paper, we present an unsupervised learning approach for analyzing facial behavior based on a deep generative model combined with a convolutional neural network (CNN). We jointly train a variational auto-encoder (VAE) and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Suman Saha , Rajitha Navarathna , Leonhard Helminger , Romann Weber

In recent years there has been increased interest in understanding the interplay between deep generative models (DGMs) and the manifold hypothesis. Research in this area focuses on understanding the reasons why commonly-used DGMs succeed or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Brendan Leigh Ross , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Anthony L. Caterini , Jesse C. Cresswell

This paper presents the development of a generative adversarial network (GAN) for synthesizing dental panoramic radiographs. Although exploratory in nature, the study aims to address the scarcity of data in dental research and education. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Soren Pedersen , Sanyam Jain , Mikkel Chavez , Viktor Ladehoff , Bruna Neves de Freitas , Ruben Pauwels

We connect a large class of Generative Deep Networks (GDNs) with spline operators in order to derive their properties, limitations, and new opportunities. By characterizing the latent space partition, dimension and angularity of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-28 Randall Balestriero , Sebastien Paris , Richard Baraniuk

Deep learning, a rebranding of deep neural network research works, has achieved a remarkable success in recent years. With multiple hidden layers, deep learning models aim at computing the hierarchical feature representations of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Jiawei Zhang , Limeng Cui , Fisher B. Gouza

Diffusion has shown great success in improving accuracy of unsupervised image retrieval systems by utilizing high-order structures of image manifold. However, existing diffusion methods suffer from three major limitations: 1) they usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zhiyong Dou , Haotian Cui , Lin Zhang , Bo Wang

One of the most significant challenges in statistical signal processing and machine learning is how to obtain a generative model that can produce samples of large-scale data distribution, such as images and speeches. Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Pegah Salehi , Abdolah Chalechale , Maryam Taghizadeh

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely adopted in various fields. However, existing GANs generally are not able to preserve the manifold of data space, mainly due to the simple representation of discriminator for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Haozhe Liu , Hanbang Liang , Xianxu Hou , Haoqian Wu , Feng Liu , Linlin Shen

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can implicitly learn rich distributions over images, audio, and data which are hard to model with an explicit likelihood. We present a practical Bayesian formulation for unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Yunus Saatchi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Memory units have been widely used to enrich the capabilities of deep networks on capturing long-term dependencies in reasoning and prediction tasks, but little investigation exists on deep generative models (DGMs) which are good at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which uses a single pre-training stage to address both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Srinidhi Hegde , Tianyi Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Various controls over the generated data can be extracted from the latent space of a pre-trained GAN, as it implicitly encodes the semantics of the training data. The discovered controls allow to vary semantic attributes in the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Perla Doubinsky , Nicolas Audebert , Michel Crucianu , Hervé Le Borgne

In autoencoder, the encoder generally approximates the latent distribution over the dataset, and the decoder generates samples using this learned latent distribution. There is very little control over the latent vector as using the random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sanket Kalwar , Animikh Aich , Tanay Dixit , Adit Chhabra

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been used widely to generate large volumes of synthetic data. This data is being utilized for augmenting with real examples in order to train deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Binod Bhattarai , Seungryul Baek , Rumeysa Bodur , Tae-Kyun Kim

Learning with kernels is an important concept in machine learning. Standard approaches for kernel methods often use predefined kernels that require careful selection of hyperparameters. To mitigate this burden, we propose in this paper a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yufan Zhou , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

Deep learning is a hot research topic in the field of machine learning methods and applications. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) provide impressive image generations from Gaussian white noise, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jiasong Wu , Jing Zhang , Fuzhi Wu , Youyong Kong , Guanyu Yang , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained popularity in various learning tasks, with successful applications in fields like molecular biology, transportation systems, and electrical grids. These fields naturally use graph data, benefiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Caio F. Deberaldini Netto , Zhiyang Wang , Luana Ruiz

Recently, it has been exposed that some modern facial recognition systems could discriminate specific demographic groups and may lead to unfair attention with respect to various facial attributes such as gender and origin. The main reason…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Parsa Rahimi , Christophe Ecabert , Sebastien Marcel