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Modern generative models are usually designed to match target distributions directly in the data space, where the intrinsic dimension of data can be much lower than the ambient dimension. We argue that this discrepancy may contribute to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Zijun Zhang , Ruixiang Zhang , Zongpeng Li , Yoshua Bengio , Liam Paull

Generative models dealing with modeling a~joint data distribution are generally either autoencoder or GAN based. Both have their pros and cons, generating blurry images or being unstable in training or prone to mode collapse phenomenon,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Szymon Knop , Marcin Mazur , Przemysław Spurek , Jacek Tabor , Igor Podolak

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is a novel class of deep generative models which has recently gained significant attention. GANs learns complex and high-dimensional distributions implicitly over images, audio, and data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao

In recent years, research on image generation methods has been developing fast. The auto-encoding variational Bayes method (VAEs) was proposed in 2013, which uses variational inference to learn a latent space from the image database and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Guoqiang Zhong , Wei Gao , Yongbin Liu , Youzhao Yang

Popular generative model learning methods such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Variational Autoencoders (VAE) enforce the latent representation to follow simple distributions such as isotropic Gaussian. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Cem Subakan , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Paris Smaragdis

The generative autoencoders, such as the variational autoencoders or the adversarial autoencoders, have achieved great success in lots of real-world applications, including image generation, and signal communication. However, little concern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Mingfei Lu , Badong Chen

Generative models such as Variational Auto Encoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are typically trained for a fixed prior distribution in the latent space, such as uniform or Gaussian. After a trained model is obtained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Eirikur Agustsson , Alexander Sage , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

The impressive success of style-based GANs (StyleGANs) in high-fidelity image synthesis has motivated research to understand the semantic properties of their latent spaces. In this paper, we approach this problem through a geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Jaewoong Choi , Geonho Hwang , Hyunsoo Cho , Myungjoo Kang

Deep generative models are increasingly becoming integral parts of the in silico molecule design pipeline and have dual goals of learning the chemical and structural features that render candidate molecules viable while also being flexible…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-08 Yair Schiff , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Payel Das

The generation of discontinuous distributions is a difficult task for most known frameworks such as generative autoencoders and generative adversarial networks. Generative non-invertible models are unable to accurately generate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mariia Drozdova , Vitaliy Kinakh , Guillaume Quétant , Tobias Golling , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been successfully applied in many fields like image generation, inpainting, super-resolution and drug discovery, etc., by now, the inner process of GANs is far from been understood. To get deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ziqiang Li , Rentuo Tao , Hongjing Niu , Bin Li

Scalability has driven recent advances in generative modeling, yet its principles remain underexplored for adversarial learning. We investigate the scalability of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) through two design choices that have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sangeek Hyun , MinKyu Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

Latent representations are the essence of deep generative models and determine their usefulness and power. For latent representations to be useful as generative concept representations, their latent space must support latent space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Daniel T. Chang

Generative models based on latent variables, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational auto-encoders (VAEs), have gained lots of interests due to their impressive performance in many fields. However, many data such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-30 Yixuan Qiu , Qingyi Gao , Xiao Wang

This paper addresses the mode collapse for generative adversarial networks (GANs). We view modes as a geometric structure of data distribution in a metric space. Under this geometric lens, we embed subsamples of the dataset from an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-12 Chang Xiao , Peilin Zhong , Changxi Zheng

With great progress in the development of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), in recent years, the quest for insights in understanding and manipulating the latent space of GAN has gained more and more attention due to its wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Toan Pham Van , Tam Minh Nguyen , Ngoc N. Tran , Hoai Viet Nguyen , Linh Bao Doan , Huy Quang Dao , Thanh Ta Minh

Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset, with diffusion models recently becoming the most popular generative model. One of the main challenges of diffusion models is solving the problem in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Wonjun Lee , Riley C. W. O'Neill , Dongmian Zou , Jeff Calder , Gilad Lerman

Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) provide impressive image generations from Gaussian white noise, but the underlying mathematics are not well understood. We compute deep convolutional network generators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Tomás Angles , Stéphane Mallat

Deep generative models such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Diffusion Models, and Transformers, have shown great promise in a variety of applications, including image and speech synthesis, natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lyle Regenwetter , Akash Srivastava , Dan Gutfreund , Faez Ahmed

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn a deep generative model that is able to synthesise novel, high-dimensional data samples. New data samples are synthesised by passing latent samples, drawn from a chosen prior distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Antonia Creswell , Anil A Bharath