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In Semantic-ID (SID) based generative recommendation, each item is represented as a sequence of discrete codes, and an autoregressive model is trained to generate the SID sequence of the next item; top-K performance is then measured by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qian Zhang , Lech Szymanski , Haibo Zhang , Jeremiah D. Deng

Modern generative models are roughly divided into two main categories: (1) models that can produce high-quality random samples, but cannot estimate the exact density of new data points and (2) those that provide exact density estimation, at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Omri Ben-Dov , Pravir Singh Gupta , Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , Michael J. Black , Partha Ghosh

Most evaluations of generative models rely on feature-distribution metrics such as FID, which operate on continuous recognition features that are explicitly trained to be invariant to appearance variations, and thus discard cues critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zexi Jia , Pengcheng Luo , Yijia Zhong , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Measuring the generalization capacity of Deep Generative Models (DGMs) is difficult because of the curse of dimensionality. Evaluation metrics for DGMs such as Inception Score, Fr\'echet Inception Distance, Precision-Recall, and Neural Net…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Hoang Thanh-Tung , Truyen Tran

Generative models often use human evaluations to measure the perceived quality of their outputs. Automated metrics are noisy indirect proxies, because they rely on heuristics or pretrained embeddings. However, up until now, direct human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Sharon Zhou , Mitchell L. Gordon , Ranjay Krishna , Austin Narcomey , Li Fei-Fei , Michael S. Bernstein

In this work, we present some recommendations on the evaluation of state-of-the-art generative models for constrained generation tasks. The progress on generative models has been rapid in recent years. These large-scale models have had…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Vikas Raunak , Matt Post , Arul Menezes

Human evaluation is critical for validating the performance of text-to-image generative models, as this highly cognitive process requires deep comprehension of text and images. However, our survey of 37 recent papers reveals that many works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Mayu Otani , Riku Togashi , Yu Sawai , Ryosuke Ishigami , Yuta Nakashima , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkilä , Shin'ichi Satoh

Determining conditional independence (CI) relationships between random variables is a fundamental yet challenging task in machine learning and statistics, especially in high-dimensional settings. Existing generative model-based CI testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yixin Ren , Chenghou Jin , Yewei Xia , Li Ke , Longtao Huang , Hui Xue , Hao Zhang , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Probabilistic generative models can be used for compression, denoising, inpainting, texture synthesis, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised feature learning, and other tasks. Given this wide range of applications, it is not surprising…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-26 Lucas Theis , Aäron van den Oord , Matthias Bethge

Credit scoring models based on accepted applications may be biased and their consequences can have a statistical and economic impact. Reject inference is the process of attempting to infer the creditworthiness status of the rejected…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-27 Rogelio A. Mancisidor , Michael Kampffmeyer , Kjersti Aas , Robert Jenssen

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been extremely effective in approximating complex distributions of high-dimensional, input data samples, and substantial progress has been made in understanding and improving GAN performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Daniel Jiwoong Im , He Ma , Graham Taylor , Kristin Branson

With the advancement of generative models, the assessment of generated images becomes more and more important. Previous methods measure distances between features of reference and generated images from trained vision models. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jaehui Hwang , Junghyuk Lee , Jong-Seok Lee

Likelihood-based generative models are a promising resource to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs which could compromise the robustness or reliability of a machine learning system. However, likelihoods derived from such models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Joan Serrà , David Álvarez , Vicenç Gómez , Olga Slizovskaia , José F. Núñez , Jordi Luque

Generative artificial intelligence has made significant strides, producing text indistinguishable from human prose and remarkably photorealistic images. Automatically measuring how close the generated data distribution is to the target…

We propose the Fr\'echet Audio Distance (FAD), a novel, reference-free evaluation metric for music enhancement algorithms. We demonstrate how typical evaluation metrics for speech enhancement and blind source separation can fail to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-18 Kevin Kilgour , Mauricio Zuluaga , Dominik Roblek , Matthew Sharifi

Since its inception, the field of deep speech enhancement has been dominated by predictive (discriminative) approaches, such as spectral mapping or masking. Recently, however, novel generative approaches have been applied to speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Danilo de Oliveira , Julius Richter , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Stochastic-sampling-based Generative Neural Networks, such as Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Generative Adversarial Networks, are now used for applications such as denoising, image occlusion removal, pattern completion, and motion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Alexander Potapov , Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Alexander Cloninger , Srinjoy Das

Research on generative systems in music has seen considerable attention and growth in recent years. A variety of attempts have been made to systematically evaluate such systems. We present an interdisciplinary review of the common…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alexander Lerch , Claire Arthur , Nick Bryan-Kinns , Corey Ford , Qianyi Sun , Ashvala Vinay

Generative models, in particular generative adversarial networks (GANs), have received significant attention recently. A number of GAN variants have been proposed and have been utilized in many applications. Despite large strides in terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Ali Borji

Generative models have been found effective for data synthesis due to their ability to capture complex underlying data distributions. The quality of generated data from these models is commonly evaluated by visual inspection for image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Emily Muller , Xu Zheng , Jer Hayes