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This paper studies generative adversarial networks (GANs) from the perspective of statistical inference. A GAN is a popular machine learning method in which the parameters of two neural networks, a generator and a discriminator, are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Mika Meitz

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a framework for producing a generative model by way of a two-player minimax game. In this paper, we propose the \emph{Generative Multi-Adversarial Network} (GMAN), a framework that extends GANs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Ishan Durugkar , Ian Gemp , Sridhar Mahadevan

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

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have drawn a lot of attentions for learning the underlying distribution of data in various applications. Despite their wide applicability, training GANs is notoriously difficult. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Babak Barazandeh , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maziar Sanjabi

Many applications in machine learning can be framed as minimization problems and solved efficiently using gradient-based techniques. However, recent applications of generative models, particularly GANs, have triggered interest in solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Paulina Grnarova , Yannic Kilcher , Kfir Y. Levy , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are popular and successful generative models. Despite their success, optimization is notoriously challenging. In this work, we explain the success and limitations of GANs by casting them as Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Maurizio Filippone , Marius P. Linhard

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), a class of distribution-learning methods based on a two-player game between a generator and a discriminator, can generally be formulated as a minmax problem based on the variational representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jeremiah Birrell , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Wei Zhu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have become one of the most successful frameworks for unsupervised generative modeling. As GANs are difficult to train much research has focused on this. However, very little of this research has…

Supervised learning with large-scale data usually leads to complex optimization problems, especially for classification tasks with multiple classes. Stochastic subgradient methods can enable efficient learning with a large number of samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kartheek Bondugula , Santiago Mazuelas , Aritz Pérez

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are successful deep generative models. GANs are based on a two-player minimax game. However, the objective function derived in the original motivation is changed to obtain stronger gradients when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-10 Masatoshi Uehara , Issei Sato , Masahiro Suzuki , Kotaro Nakayama , Yutaka Matsuo

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can implicitly learn rich distributions over images, audio, and data which are hard to model with an explicit likelihood. We present a practical Bayesian formulation for unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Yunus Saatchi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Adversarial learning methods have been proposed for a wide range of applications, but the training of adversarial models can be notoriously unstable. Effectively balancing the performance of the generator and discriminator is critical,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Xue Bin Peng , Angjoo Kanazawa , Sam Toyer , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

In this paper, a novel experienced deep reinforcement learning (deep-RL) framework is proposed to provide model-free resource allocation for ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC). The proposed, experienced deep-RL framework can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Ali Taleb Zadeh Kasgari , Walid Saad , Mohammad Mozaffari , H. Vincent Poor

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a powerful class of generative models in the deep learning community. Current practice on large-scale GAN training utilizes large models and distributed large-batch training strategies, and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Mingrui Liu , Wei Zhang , Youssef Mroueh , Xiaodong Cui , Jerret Ross , Tianbao Yang , Payel Das

We propose an alternative to the standard GAN training approach, in which the discriminator is a binary classifier trained by cross-entropy to distinguish real samples from generated ones. Instead, we directly target the discrimination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mohammadreza Tavasoli Naeini , Ali Bereyhi , Morteza Noshad , Ben Liang , Alfred O. Hero

In this paper, we study deep generative models for effective unsupervised learning. We propose VGAN, which works by minimizing a variational lower bound of the negative log likelihood (NLL) of an energy based model (EBM), where the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Rogerio Feris , Zhongfei Zhang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated unprecedented success in various image generation tasks. The encouraging results, however, come at the price of a cumbersome training process, during which the generator and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Chengchao Shen , Youtan Yin , Xinchao Wang , Xubin Li , Jie Song , Mingli Song

We propose to incorporate adversarial dropout in generative multi-adversarial networks, by omitting or dropping out, the feedback of each discriminator in the framework with some probability at the end of each batch. Our approach forces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Gonçalo Mordido , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable performance in numerous sequential decision making and control tasks. However, a common problem is that learned nearly optimal policy always overfits to the training environment and may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yangang Ren , Jingliang Duan , Shengbo Eben Li , Yang Guan , Qi Sun

Traditional classification algorithms assume that training and test data come from similar distributions. This assumption is violated in adversarial settings, where malicious actors modify instances to evade detection. A number of custom…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Bo Li , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xinyun Chen