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Although noisy-label learning is often approached with discriminative methods for simplicity and speed, generative modeling offers a principled alternative by capturing the joint mechanism that produces features, clean labels, and corrupted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Fengbei Liu , Chong Wang , Yuanhong Chen , Yuyuan Liu , Gustavo Carneiro

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

We present an architecture which lets us train deep, directed generative models with many layers of latent variables. We include deterministic paths between all latent variables and the generated output, and provide a richer set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Philip Bachman

Although GAN-based methods have received many achievements in the last few years, they have not been entirelysuccessful in generating discrete data. The most crucial challenge of these methods is the difficulty of passing the gradientfrom…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Ehsan Montahaei , Danial Alihosseini , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Latent variable models are crucial in scientific research, where a key variable, such as effort, ability, and belief, is unobserved in the sample but needs to be identified. This paper proposes a novel method for estimating realizations of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-05 Yingyao Hu , Yang Liu , Jiaxiong Yao

In this paper, we present a general method that can improve the sample quality of pre-trained likelihood based generative models. Our method constructs an energy function on the latent variable space that yields an energy function on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhisheng Xiao , Qing Yan , Yali Amit

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable progress in recent years, but the continuously growing scale of models makes them challenging to deploy widely in practical applications. In particular, for real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Liang Hou , Zehuan Yuan , Lei Huang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng , Changhu Wang

In this paper we present a novel approach for lane detection and segmentation using generative models. Traditionally discriminative models have been employed to classify pixels semantically on a road. We model the probability distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ajay Soni , Pratik Padamwar , Krishna Reddy Konda

While large-scale language models (LMs) are able to imitate the distribution of natural language well enough to generate realistic text, it is difficult to control which regions of the distribution they generate. This is especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ben Krause , Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare , Bryan McCann , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Shafiq Joty , Richard Socher , Nazneen Fatema Rajani

Weak gravitational lensing maps compactly encode the evolution of cosmic large-scale structure and are a key tool for cosmological analyses. Performing inference directly at the map level allows flexible choices of statistics and can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Guangjian Li , Tomasz Kacprzak

Recent advances in generative machine learning models rekindled research interest in the area of password guessing. Data-driven password guessing approaches based on GANs, language models and deep latent variable models have shown…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Giulio Pagnotta , Dorjan Hitaj , Fabio De Gaspari , Luigi V. Mancini

Sparsity is a desirable attribute. It can lead to more efficient and more effective representations compared to the dense model. Meanwhile, learning sparse latent representations has been a challenging problem in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Hanao Li , Tian Han

Evaluating generative models with open-ended generation is challenging due to inconsistencies in response formats. Multiple-choice (MC) evaluation mitigates this issue, but generating high-quality distractors is time-consuming and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Grace Byun , Jinho D. Choi

Autonomous driving demands high-quality LiDAR data, yet the cost of physical LiDAR sensors presents a significant scaling-up challenge. While recent efforts have explored deep generative models to address this issue, they often consume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Qianjiang Hu , Zhimin Zhang , Wei Hu

We extend and improve the work of Model Agnostic Anchors for explanations on image classification through the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs). Using GANs, we generate samples from a more realistic perturbation distribution, by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-04 Kurtis Evan David , Harrison Keane , Jun Min Noh

Generative adversarial networks are the state of the art approach towards learned synthetic image generation. Although early successes were mostly unsupervised, bit by bit, this trend has been superseded by approaches based on labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Ricard Durall , Kalun Ho , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper

Generative adversarial networks are generative models that are capable of replicating the implicit probability distribution of the input data with high accuracy. Traditionally, GANs consist of a Generator and a Discriminator which interact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xin Wang

The ever-increasing size of modern data sets combined with the difficulty of obtaining label information has made semi-supervised learning one of the problems of significant practical importance in modern data analysis. We revisit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Diederik P. Kingma , Danilo J. Rezende , Shakir Mohamed , Max Welling

Deep metric learning aims to learn an embedding space where the distance between data reflects their class equivalence, even when their classes are unseen during training. However, the limited number of classes available in training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Kyungmoon Lee , Sungyeon Kim , Seunghoon Hong , Suha Kwak

Most approaches to dense anomaly detection rely on generative modeling or on discriminative methods that train with negative data. We consider a recent hybrid method that optimizes the same shared representation according to cross-entropy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Anja Delić , Matej Grcić , Siniša Šegvić