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A generative adversarial network (GAN) has been a representative backbone model in generative artificial intelligence (AI) because of its powerful performance in capturing intricate data-generating processes. However, the GAN training is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-21 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one powerful type of deep learning models that have been successfully utilized in numerous fields. They belong to a broader family called generative methods, which generate new data with a…

We deconstruct the performance of GANs into three components: 1. Formulation: we propose a perturbation view of the population target of GANs. Building on this interpretation, we show that GANs can be viewed as a generalization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Banghua Zhu , Jiantao Jiao , David Tse

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

We introduce Kernel Density Discrimination GAN (KDD GAN), a novel method for generative adversarial learning. KDD GAN formulates the training as a likelihood ratio optimization problem where the data distributions are written explicitly via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Abdelhak Lemkhenter , Adam Bielski , Alp Eren Sari , Paolo Favaro

Accurate modelling of spectra produced by X-ray sources requires the use of Monte-Carlo simulations. These simulations need to evaluate physical processes, such as those occurring in accretion processes around compact objects by sampling a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-21 Ahab Isaac , Wesley Armour , Karel Adámek

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can accurately model complex multi-dimensional data and generate realistic samples. However, due to their implicit estimation of data distributions, their evaluation is a challenging task. The majority…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Amirsina Torfi , Mohammadreza Beyki , Edward A. Fox

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are unsupervised learning methods for training a generator distribution to produce samples that approximate those drawn from a target distribution. Many such methods can be formulated as minimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Jeremiah Birrell

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have become a preferred tool for tasks involving complicated distributions. To stabilise the training and reduce the mode collapse of GANs, one of their main variants employs the integral probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Shengxi Li , Zeyang Yu , Min Xiang , Danilo Mandic

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of machine-learning models that use adversarial training to generate new samples with the same (potentially very complex) statistics as the training samples. One major form of training…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-12 Steven Durr , Youssef Mroueh , Yuhai Tu , Shenshen Wang

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 able to model the complex highdimensional distributions of real-world data, which suggests they could be effective for anomaly detection. However, few works have explored the use of GANs for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Houssam Zenati , Chuan Sheng Foo , Bruno Lecouat , Gaurav Manek , Vijay Ramaseshan Chandrasekhar

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of generative models, known for producing accurate samples. The key feature of GANs is that there are two antagonistic neural networks: the generator and the discriminator. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Barbara Franci , Sergio Grammatico

Generative adversarial network (GAN) is widely used for generalized and robust learning on graph data. However, for non-Euclidean graph data, the existing GAN-based graph representation methods generate negative samples by random walk or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jianxin Li , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Cheng Ji , Jiajun Tan , Jia Wu , Hao Peng

We study minimax convergence rates of nonparametric density estimation under a large class of loss functions called "adversarial losses", which, besides classical $\mathcal{L}^p$ losses, includes maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), Wasserstein…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Shashank Singh , Ananya Uppal , Boyue Li , Chun-Liang Li , Manzil Zaheer , Barnabás Póczos

Auto-encoding generative adversarial networks (GANs) combine the standard GAN algorithm, which discriminates between real and model-generated data, with a reconstruction loss given by an auto-encoder. Such models aim to prevent mode…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Mihaela Rosca , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , David Warde-Farley , Shakir Mohamed

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) were intuitively and attractively explained under the perspective of game theory, wherein two involving parties are a discriminator and a generator. In this game, the task of the discriminator is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Trung Le , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dinh Phung

Soft sensing infers hard-to-measure data through a large number of easily obtainable variables. However, in complex industrial scenarios, the issue of insufficient data volume persists, which diminishes the reliability of soft sensing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zesen Wang , Yonggang Li , Lijuan Lan

This paper proposes a novel fault diagnosis approach based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) for imbalanced industrial time series where normal samples are much larger than failure cases. We combine a well-designed feature extractor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Wenqian Jiang , Cheng Cheng , Beitong Zhou , Guijun Ma , Ye Yuan

Matching the performance of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks with little supervision is an important task, especially in venturing into new domains. We design a new training algorithm, which is robust to missing or ambiguous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Ashish Khetan