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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

The advancement of generative AI, particularly in medical imaging, confronts the trilemma of ensuring high fidelity, diversity, and efficiency in synthetic data generation. While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lorenzo Tronchin , Tommy Löfstedt , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable results in modeling complex distributions, but their evaluation remains an unsettled issue. Evaluations are essential for: (i) relative assessment of different models and (ii)…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistic samples from high-dimensional distributions, but training them is considered hard. A possible explanation for training instabilities is the inherent imbalance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-12 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Giambattista Parascandolo , Arash Mehrjou , Bernhard Schölkopf

Generative adversarial network (GAN) is among the most popular deep learning models for learning complex data distributions. However, training a GAN is known to be a challenging task. This is often attributed to the lack of correlation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sahil Sidheekh , Aroof Aimen , Vineet Madan , Narayanan C. Krishnan

We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

When formulated as an unsupervised learning problem, anomaly detection often requires a model to learn the distribution of normal data. Previous works apply Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to anomaly detection tasks and show good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xu Han , Xiaohui Chen , Li-Ping Liu

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a current focal point of research. The body of knowledge is fragmented, leading to a trial-error method while selecting an appropriate GAN for a given scenario. We provide a comprehensive summary of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Tanya Motwani , Manojkumar Parmar

This work studies training generative adversarial networks under the federated learning setting. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved advancement in various real-world applications, such as image editing, style transfer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chenyou Fan , Ping Liu

We propose the characteristic generator, a novel one-step generative model that combines the efficiency of sampling in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with the stable performance of flow-based models. Our model is driven by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhao Ding , Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Ruoxuan Li , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Pingwen 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 addresses both families of tasks simultaneously. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Yosuke Yamaguchi , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Tianyi Zhou , Jun Ohya , Abhinav Shrivastava

Deep generative models (DGMs) have the potential to revolutionize diagnostic imaging. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one kind of DGM which are widely employed. The overarching problem with deploying GANs, and other DGMs, in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Rucha Deshpande , Mark A. Anastasio , Frank J. Brooks

Understanding how well a deep generative model captures a distribution of high-dimensional data remains an important open challenge. It is especially difficult for certain model classes, such as Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Suman Ravuri , Mélanie Rey , Shakir Mohamed , Marc Deisenroth

Recent advancements in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enable the generation of highly realistic images, raising concerns about their misuse for malicious purposes. Detecting these GAN-generated images (GAN-images) becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hyeonseong Jeon , Youngoh Bang , Junyaup Kim , Simon S. Woo

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are emerging machine learning models for generating synthesized data similar to real data by jointly training a generator and a discriminator. In many applications, data and computational resources are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jinke Ren , Chonghe Liu , Guanding Yu , Dongning Guo

Generative models (GMs) such as Generative Adversary Network (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have thrived these years and achieved high quality results in generating new samples. Especially in Computer Vision, GMs have been used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Honggang Zhou , Yunchun Li , Hailong Yang , Wei Li , Jie Jia

We propose a general framework to learn deep generative models via \textbf{V}ariational \textbf{Gr}adient Fl\textbf{ow} (VGrow) on probability spaces. The evolving distribution that asymptotically converges to the target distribution is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yuan Gao , Yuling Jiao , Yang Wang , Yao Wang , Can Yang , Shunkang Zhang

Generative neural networks are able to mimic intricate probability distributions such as those of handwritten text, natural images, etc. Since their inception several models were proposed. The most successful of these were based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Daniel N. Nissani

Generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), often suffer from a lack of output diversity, frequently generating similar samples rather than a wide range of variations. This paper introduces a novel generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Muhammad Mubashar , Fabio Cuzzolin

Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is to find maximum likelihood solution for models having latent variables. A typical example is Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) which requires Gaussian assumption, however, natural images are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Wentian Zhao , Shaojie Wang , Zhihuai Xie , Jing Shi , Chenliang Xu