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Many existing transductive bounds rely on classical complexity measures that are computationally intractable and often misaligned with empirical behavior. In this work, we establish new representation-based generalization bounds in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 MoonJeong Park , Seungbeom Lee , Kyungmin Kim , Jaeseung Heo , Seunghyuk Cho , Shouheng Li , Sangdon Park , Dongwoo Kim

Non-autoregressive generative transformers recently demonstrated impressive image generation performance, and orders of magnitude faster sampling than their autoregressive counterparts. However, optimal parallel sampling from the true joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 José Lezama , Huiwen Chang , Lu Jiang , Irfan Essa

In this paper, we introduce a new CT image denoising method based on the generative adversarial network (GAN) with Wasserstein distance and perceptual similarity. The Wasserstein distance is a key concept of the optimal transform theory,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Qingsong Yang , Pingkun Yan , Yanbo Zhang , Hengyong Yu , Yongyi Shi , Xuanqin Mou , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

We investigate the training and performance of generative adversarial networks using the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) as critic, termed MMD GANs. As our main theoretical contribution, we clarify the situation with bias in GAN loss…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Mikołaj Bińkowski , Danica J. Sutherland , Michael Arbel , Arthur Gretton

Learning generative models is challenging for a network edge node with limited data and computing power. Since tasks in similar environments share model similarity, it is plausible to leverage pre-trained generative models from the cloud or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Mehmet Dedeoglu , Sen Lin , Zhaofeng Zhang , Junshan Zhang

Optimal transport induces the Earth Mover's (Wasserstein) distance between probability distributions, a geometric divergence that is relevant to a wide range of problems. Over the last decade, two relaxations of optimal transport have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , Jean Feydy , François-Xavier Vialard , Alain Trouvé , Gabriel Peyré

The generation of synthetic data with distributions that faithfully emulate the underlying data-generating mechanism holds paramount significance. Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) have emerged as a prominent tool for this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-08 Wenhui Sophia Lu , Chenyang Zhong , Wing Hung Wong

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are an expressive class of neural generative models with tremendous success in modeling high-dimensional continuous measures. In this paper, we present a scalable method for unbalanced optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Karren D. Yang , Caroline Uhler

We introduce a novel, training-free approach for enhancing alignment in Transformer-based Text-Guided Diffusion Models (TGDMs). Existing TGDMs often struggle to generate semantically aligned images, particularly when dealing with complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shulei Wang , Wang Lin , Hai Huang , Hanting Wang , Sihang Cai , WenKang Han , Tao Jin , Jingyuan Chen , Jiacheng Sun , Jieming Zhu , Zhou Zhao

Learning a transport model that maps a source distribution to a target distribution is a canonical problem in machine learning, but scientific applications increasingly require models that can generalize to source and target distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nic Fishman , Gokul Gowri , Paolo L. B. Fischer , Marinka Zitnik , Omar Abudayyeh , Jonathan Gootenberg

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been impactful on many problems and applications but suffer from unstable training. The Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) leverages the Wasserstein distance to avoid the caveats in the minmax two-player…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-14 Yao Chen , Qingyi Gao , Xiao Wang

The use of deep neural networks in edge computing devices hinges on the balance between accuracy and complexity of computations. Ternary Connect (TC) \cite{lin2015neural} addresses this issue by restricting the parameters to three levels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Samyak Parajuli , Aswin Raghavan , Sek Chai

Generative Adversial Networks (GANs) have made a major impact in computer vision and machine learning as generative models. Wasserstein GANs (WGANs) brought Optimal Transport (OT) theory into GANs, by minimizing the $1$-Wasserstein distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Anton Mallasto , Jes Frellsen , Wouter Boomsma , Aasa Feragen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown immense potential in fields such as text and image generation. Only very recently attempts to exploit GANs to statistical-mechanics models have been reported. Here we quantitatively test…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Daniele Lanzoni , Olivier Pierre-Louis , Francesco Montalenti

Generative Adversarial Networks are a popular method for learning distributions from data by modeling the target distribution as a function of a known distribution. The function, often referred to as the generator, is optimized to minimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Daria Reshetova , Yikun Bai , Xiugang Wu , Ayfer Ozgur

Graph condensation (GC) aims to distill the original graph into a small-scale graph, mitigating redundancy and accelerating GNN training. However, conventional GC approaches heavily rely on rigid GNNs and task-specific supervision. Such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yeyu Yan , Shuai Zheng , Wenjun Hui , Xiangkai Zhu , Dong Chen , Zhenfeng Zhu , Yao Zhao , Kunlun He

Token-based masked generative models are gaining popularity for their fast inference time with parallel decoding. While recent token-based approaches achieve competitive performance to diffusion-based models, their generation performance is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Jaewoong Lee , Sangwon Jang , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Yunji Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Sung Ju Hwang

It is well known that the generative adversarial nets (GANs) are remarkably difficult to train. The recently proposed Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) creates principled research directions towards addressing these issues. But we found in practice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Lijun Zhang , Yujin Zhang , Yongbin Gao

Optimal transport has numerous applications, particularly in machine learning tasks involving generative models. In practice, the transportation process often encounters an information bottleneck, typically arising from the conversion of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiqiang Qu , Ruibin Li , Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Xinbing Wang

We propose a method (TT-GP) for approximate inference in Gaussian Process (GP) models. We build on previous scalable GP research including stochastic variational inference based on inducing inputs, kernel interpolation, and structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Pavel Izmailov , Alexander Novikov , Dmitry Kropotov