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The machine learning community has mainly relied on real data to benchmark algorithms as it provides compelling evidence of model applicability. Evaluation on synthetic datasets can be a powerful tool to provide a better understanding of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Florence Regol , Anja Kroon , Mark Coates

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are by far the most successful generative models. Learning the transformation which maps a low dimensional input noise to the data distribution forms the foundation for GANs. Although they have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Manisha Padala , Debojit Das , Sujit Gujar

The past few years have seen impressive progress in the development of deep generative models capable of producing high-dimensional, complex, and photo-realistic data. However, current methods for evaluating such models remain incomplete:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Marco Jiralerspong , Avishek Joey Bose , Ian Gemp , Chongli Qin , Yoram Bachrach , Gauthier Gidel

Generative models have made immense progress in recent years, particularly in their ability to generate high quality images. However, that quality has been difficult to evaluate rigorously, with evaluation dominated by heuristic approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Y. Alex Kolchinski , Sharon Zhou , Shengjia Zhao , Mitchell Gordon , Stefano Ermon

Deep generative models have made much progress in improving training stability and quality of generated data. Recently there has been increased interest in the fairness of deep-generated data. Fairness is important in many applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Christopher T. H Teo , Ngai-Man Cheung

One way to interpret trained deep neural networks (DNNs) is by inspecting characteristics that neurons in the model respond to, such as by iteratively optimising the model input (e.g., an image) to maximally activate specific neurons.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Saumitra Mishra , Daniel Stoller , Emmanouil Benetos , Bob L. Sturm , Simon Dixon

Objective and interpretable metrics to evaluate current artificial intelligent systems are of great importance, not only to analyze the current state of such systems but also to objectively measure progress in the future. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Julian Niedermeier , Gonçalo Mordido , Christoph Meinel

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)…

Although generative models have made remarkable progress in recent years, their use in critical applications has been hindered by an inability to reliably evaluate the quality of their generated samples. Quality refers to at least two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Nicolas Salvy , Hugues Talbot , Bertrand Thirion

Metrics for evaluating generative models aim to measure the discrepancy between real and generated images. The often-used Frechet Inception Distance (FID) metric, for example, extracts "high-level" features using a deep network from the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Gaurav Parmar , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu

Recent years have seen considerable advances in audio synthesis with deep generative models. However, the state-of-the-art is very difficult to quantify; different studies often use different evaluation methodologies and different metrics…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Ashvala Vinay , Alexander Lerch

The rapid advancement of natural language processing, information retrieval (IR), computer vision, and other technologies has presented significant challenges in evaluating the performance of these systems. One of the main challenges is the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Negar Arabzadeh , Charles L. A. Clarke

Evaluation metrics in image synthesis play a key role to measure performances of generative models. However, most metrics mainly focus on image fidelity. Existing diversity metrics are derived by comparing distributions, and thus they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jiyeon Han , Hwanil Choi , Yunjey Choi , Junho Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Jaesik Choi

In this paper, we propose an improved quantitative evaluation framework for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on generating domain-specific images, where we improve conventional evaluation methods on two levels: the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Shaohui Liu , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Generative models of expressive piano performance are usually assessed by comparing their predictions to a reference human performance. A generative algorithm is taken to be better than competing ones if it produces performances that are…

Implicit Generative Models (IGMs) such as GANs have emerged as effective data-driven models for generating samples, particularly images. In this paper, we formulate the problem of learning an IGM as minimizing the expected distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Abdul Fatir Ansari , Jonathan Scarlett , Harold Soh

Generative AI has achieved remarkable empirical success, but from the perspective of statistics it often remains opaque: its predictions may be accurate, yet the underlying mechanism is difficult to interpret, analyze, and trust. This book…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Shinto Eguchi

Precision and Recall are two prominent metrics of generative performance, which were proposed to separately measure the fidelity and diversity of generative models. Given their central role in comparing and improving generative models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Wael AbdAlmageed

Good generative models should not only synthesize high quality data, but also utilize interpretable representations that aid human understanding of their behavior. However, it is difficult to measure objectively if and to what degree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Daniel Galperin , Ullrich Köthe

Devising domain- and model-agnostic evaluation metrics for generative models is an important and as yet unresolved problem. Most existing metrics, which were tailored solely to the image synthesis setup, exhibit a limited capacity for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Ahmed M. Alaa , Boris van Breugel , Evgeny Saveliev , Mihaela van der Schaar