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GANs excel at learning high dimensional distributions, but they can update generator parameters in directions that do not correspond to the steepest descent direction of the objective. Prominent examples of problematic update directions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Calvin Seward , Thomas Unterthiner , Urs Bergmann , Nikolay Jetchev , Sepp Hochreiter

Bayesian inference on structured models typically relies on the ability to infer posterior distributions of underlying hidden variables. However, inference in implicit models or complex posterior distributions is hard. A popular tool for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-16 Theofanis Karaletsos

Since its invention, Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown outstanding results in many applications. Generative Adversarial Networks are powerful yet, resource-hungry deep-learning models. Their main difference from ordinary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Dina Tantawy , Mohamed Zahran , Amr Wassal

Generative adversarial networks have been very successful in generative modeling, however they remain relatively challenging to train compared to standard deep neural networks. In this paper, we propose new visualization techniques for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Hugo Berard , Gauthier Gidel , Amjad Almahairi , Pascal Vincent , Simon Lacoste-Julien

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

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have resulted in its widespread applications to multiple domains. A recent model, IRGAN, applies this framework to Information Retrieval (IR) and has gained significant attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Ameet Deshpande , Mitesh M. Khapra

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a way to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. They achieve this through deriving backpropagation signals through a competitive process involving a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Antonia Creswell , Tom White , Vincent Dumoulin , Kai Arulkumaran , Biswa Sengupta , Anil A Bharath

Despite success on a wide range of problems related to vision, generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffer from inferior performance due to unstable training, especially for text generation. To solve this issue, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yue Wu , Pan Zhou , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

Generative models have been successfully used for generating realistic signals. Because the likelihood function is typically intractable in most of these models, the common practice is to use "implicit" models that avoid likelihood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Itai Alon , Amir Globerson , Ami Wiesel

Deep learning-based natural language processing (NLP) models, particularly pre-trained language models (PLMs), have been revealed to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However, the adversarial examples generated by many mainstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zimu Wang , Wei Wang , Qi Chen , Qiufeng Wang , Anh Nguyen

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been widely studied during the recent development of deep learning and unsupervised learning. With an adversarial training mechanism, GAN manages to train a generative model to fit the underlying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Weinan Zhang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been widely used and have achieved competitive results in semi-supervised learning. This paper theoretically analyzes how GAN-based semi-supervised learning (GAN-SSL) works. We first prove that,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-14 Xuejiao Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are formulated as minimax game problems, whereby generators attempt to approach real data distributions by virtue of adversarial learning against discriminators. The intrinsic problem complexity poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yuesong Tian , Li Shen , Li Shen , Guinan Su , Zhifeng Li , Wei 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

Text generative models trained via Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) suffer from the notorious exposure bias problem, and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are shown to have potential to tackle this problem. Existing language GANs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Da Ren , Qing Li

This paper first presents a theory for generative adversarial methods that does not rely on the traditional minimax formulation. It shows that with a strong discriminator, a good generator can be learned so that the KL divergence between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-11 Rie Johnson , Tong Zhang

Unconditional image generation has recently been dominated by generative adversarial networks (GANs). GAN methods train a generator which regresses images from random noise vectors, as well as a discriminator that attempts to differentiate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Yedid Hoshen , Jitendra Malik

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been remarkably successful in learning complex high dimensional real word distributions and generating realistic samples. However, they provide limited control over the generation process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Arunava Chakraborty , Rahul Ragesh , Mahir Shah , Nipun Kwatra

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have enjoyed tremendous success in image generation and processing, and have recently attracted growing interests in financial modelings. This paper analyzes GANs from the perspectives of mean-field…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haoyang Cao , Xin Guo , Mathieu Laurière

Generative adversarial networks are used to generate images but still their convergence properties are not well understood. There have been a few studies who intended to investigate the stability properties of GANs as a dynamical system.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-15 Arash Mehrjou