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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistically looking synthetic images with remarkable success, yet their performance seems less impressive when the training set is highly diverse. In order to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Matan Ben-Yosef , Daphna Weinshall

Many deep generative models are defined as a push-forward of a Gaussian measure by a continuous generator, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs). This work explores the latent space of such deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Thibaut Issenhuth , Ugo Tanielian , Jérémie Mary , David Picard

Generative Adversarial Networks have surprising ability for generating sharp and realistic images, though they are known to suffer from the so-called mode collapse problem. In this paper, we propose a new GAN variant called Mixture Density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Werner Zellinger , Gerhard Widmer

With the rapidly growing model complexity and data volume, training deep generative models (DGMs) for better performance has becoming an increasingly more important challenge. Previous research on this problem has mainly focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yufan Zhou , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

In generative modeling, numerous successful approaches leverage a low-dimensional latent space, e.g., Stable Diffusion models the latent space induced by an encoder and generates images through a paired decoder. Although the selection of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tianyang Hu , Fei Chen , Haonan Wang , Jiawei Li , Wenjia Wang , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide an algorithmic framework for constructing generative models with several appealing properties: they do not require a likelihood function to be specified, only a generating procedure; they…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Shakir Mohamed , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

Deep generative models provide powerful tools for distributions over complicated manifolds, such as those of natural images. But many of these methods, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), can be difficult to train, in part…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Akash Srivastava , Lazar Valkov , Chris Russell , Michael U. Gutmann , Charles Sutton

Robust generalization to new concepts has long remained a distinctive feature of human intelligence. However, recent progress in deep generative models has now led to neural architectures capable of synthesizing novel instances of unknown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Victor Boutin , Lakshya Singhal , Xavier Thomas , Thomas Serre

In this technical report we describe some properties of f-divergences and f-GAN training. We present an elementary derivation of the f-divergence lower bounds which form the basis of f-GAN training. We derive informative but perhaps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Matt Shannon

We propose MAD-GAN, an intuitive generalization to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and its conditional variants to address the well known problem of mode collapse. First, MAD-GAN is a multi-agent GAN architecture incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Arnab Ghosh , Viveka Kulharia , Vinay Namboodiri , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

Recent advances in deep learning have accelerated its use in various applications, such as cellular image analysis and molecular discovery. In molecular discovery, a generative adversarial network (GAN), which comprises a discriminator to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Daniel Manu , Jingjing Yao , Wuji Liu , Xiang Sun

Undirected graphical models are compact representations of joint probability distributions over random variables. To solve inference tasks of interest, graphical models of arbitrary topology can be trained using empirical risk minimization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Adarsh K. Jeewajee , Leslie P. Kaelbling

The paper proposes a data-driven approach to air-to-ground channel estimation in a millimeter-wave wireless network on an unmanned aerial vehicle. Unlike traditional centralized learning methods that are specific to certain geographical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Saira Bano , Pietro Cassarà , Nicola Tonellotto , Alberto Gotta

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great promise in modeling high dimensional data. The learning objective of GANs usually minimizes some measure discrepancy, \textit{e.g.}, $f$-divergence~($f$-GANs) or Integral Probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Yuxuan Song , Qiwei Ye , Minkai Xu , Tie-Yan Liu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are successfully used for image synthesis but are known to face instability during training. In contrast, probabilistic diffusion models (DMs) are stable and generate high-quality images, at the cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Edgardo Solano-Carrillo , Angel Bueno Rodriguez , Borja Carrillo-Perez , Yannik Steiniger , Jannis Stoppe

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown compelling results in various tasks and applications in recent years. However, mode collapse remains a critical problem in GANs. In this paper, we propose a novel training pipeline to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Haozhe Liu , Bing Li , Haoqian Wu , Hanbang Liang , Yawen Huang , Yuexiang Li , Bernard Ghanem , Yefeng Zheng

Dynamic magnetic resonance image reconstruction from incomplete k-space data has generated great research interest due to its capability to reduce scan time. Never-theless, the reconstruction problem is still challenging due to its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Chuanming Yu , Yu Guan , Ziwen Ke , Dong Liang , Qiegen Liu

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 (GAN) is currently widely used as an unsupervised image generation method. Current state-of-the-art GANs can generate photorealistic images with high resolution. However, a large amount of data is required,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Pengwei Wang

We develop a rigorous and general framework for constructing information-theoretic divergences that subsume both $f$-divergences and integral probability metrics (IPMs), such as the $1$-Wasserstein distance. We prove under which assumptions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-16 Jeremiah Birrell , Paul Dupuis , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Yannis Pantazis , Luc Rey-Bellet