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We propose an adversarial learning approach for generating multi-turn dialogue responses. Our proposed framework, hredGAN, is based on conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs). The GAN's generator is a modified hierarchical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Oluwatobi Olabiyi , Alan Salimov , Anish Khazane , Erik T. Mueller

Current two-stage TTS framework typically integrates an acoustic model with a vocoder -- the acoustic model predicts a low resolution intermediate representation such as Mel-spectrum while the vocoder generates waveform from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Jian Cong , Shan Yang , Lei Xie , Dan Su

This paper presents a new adversarial learning method for generative conversational agents (GCA) besides a new model of GCA. Similar to previous works on adversarial learning for dialogue generation, our method assumes the GCA as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Oswaldo Ludwig

We propose to improve unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) by training the self-supervised learning with the adversarial process. In particular, we apply self-supervised learning via the geometric transformation on input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Viet-Hung Tran , Ngoc-Bao Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown substantial progress in modeling complex distributions of data. These networks have received tremendous attention since they can generate implicit probabilistic models that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-25 Mehdi Ahmadi , Timothy Nest , Mostafa Abdelnaim , Thanh-Dung Le

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as a powerful tool for generating high-fidelity data. However, the main bottleneck of existing approaches is the lack of supervision on the generator training, which often results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Baoren Xiao , Hao Ni , Weixin Yang

This paper presents a generative approach to speech enhancement based on a recurrent variational autoencoder (RVAE). The deep generative speech model is trained using clean speech signals only, and it is combined with a nonnegative matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

We propose a novel GAN training scheme that can handle any level of labeling in a unified manner. Our scheme introduces a form of artificial labeling that can incorporate manually defined labels, when available, and induce an alignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tomoki Watanabe , Paolo Favaro

Attention-based models, exemplified by the Transformer, can effectively model long range dependency, but suffer from the quadratic complexity of self-attention operation, making them difficult to be adopted for high-resolution image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Long Zhao , Zizhao Zhang , Ting Chen , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Han Zhang

Most existing feature learning methods optimize inflexible handcrafted features and the affinity matrix is constructed by shallow linear embedding methods. Different from these conventional methods, we pretrain a generative neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Changlu Chen , Chaoxi Niu , Xia Zhan , Kun Zhan

Recent neural networks such as WaveNet and sampleRNN that learn directly from speech waveform samples have achieved very high-quality synthetic speech in terms of both naturalness and speaker similarity even in multi-speaker text-to-speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Yi Zhao , Shinji Takaki , Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi , Daisuke Saito , Nobuaki Minematsu

Limited angle CT reconstruction is an under-determined linear inverse problem that requires appropriate regularization techniques to be solved. In this work we study how pre-trained generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle M. Champley

This article presents a new machine unlearning approach that utilizes multiple Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based models. The proposed method comprises two phases: i) data reorganization in which synthetic data using the GAN model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Amartya Hatua , Trung T. Nguyen , Andrew H. Sung

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) technology has become commonplace in virtual assistants. However, its performance suffers when there is a mismatch between the train and test domains. Mixed bandwidth training, i.e., pooling training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Saurabh Kataria , Jesús Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velázquez , Piotr Żelasko , Najim Dehak

In this paper we propose an attentive recurrent generative adversarial network (ARGAN) to detect and remove shadows in an image. The generator consists of multiple progressive steps. At each step a shadow attention detector is firstly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Bin Ding , Chengjiang Long , Ling Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

Autoregressive (AR) models have garnered significant attention in image generation for their ability to effectively capture both local and global structures within visual data. However, prevalent AR models predominantly rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuxin Mao , Zhen Qin , Jinxing Zhou , Hui Deng , Xuyang Shen , Bin Fan , Jing Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

Generative adversarial networks are generative models that are capable of replicating the implicit probability distribution of the input data with high accuracy. Traditionally, GANs consist of a Generator and a Discriminator which interact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xin Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a class of neural networks that have been widely used in the field of image-to-image translation. In this paper, we propose a streamlined image-to-image translation network with a simpler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Guangzong Chen , Mingui Sun , Zhi-Hong Mao , Kangni Liu , Wenyan Jia

Voice conversion is to generate a new speech with the source content and a target voice style. In this paper, we focus on one general setting, i.e., non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion, which is close to the real-world scenario. As…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jian Ma , Zhedong Zheng , Hao Fei , Feng Zheng , Tat-seng Chua , Yi Yang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful framework for learning to draw samples from complex distributions. However, GANs are also notoriously difficult to train, with mode collapse and oscillations a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-28 Kevin J Liang , Chunyuan Li , Guoyin Wang , Lawrence Carin