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We propose a novel generative model within the Bayesian non-parametric learning (BNPL) framework to address some notable failure modes in generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAEs)--these being overfitting in…

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We propose a novel GAN training scheme that can handle any level of labeling in a unified manner. Our scheme introduces a form of artificial labeling that can incorporate manually defined labels, when available, and induce an alignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tomoki Watanabe , Paolo Favaro

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are widely used to learn generative models. GANs consist of two networks, a generator and a discriminator, that apply adversarial learning to optimize their parameters. This article presents a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Emiliano Perez , Sergio Nesmachnow , Jamal Toutouh , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are effective in generating realistic images but the training is often unstable. There are existing efforts that model the training dynamics of GANs in the parameter space but the analysis cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Kun Xu , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Anomaly detection in time-series data is a critical challenge with significant implications for network security. Recent quantum machine learning approaches, such as quantum kernel methods and variational quantum circuits, have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Wajdi Hammami , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Jean-Frederic Laprade , Ola Ahmad , Shengrui Wang

Computed tomography (CT) uses X-ray measurements taken from sensors around the body to generate tomographic images of the human body. Conventional reconstruction algorithms can be used if the X-ray data are adequately sampled and of high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Ruiwen Xing , Thomas Humphries , Dong Si

Conditional waveform synthesis models learn a distribution of audio waveforms given conditioning such as text, mel-spectrograms, or MIDI. These systems employ deep generative models that model the waveform via either sequential…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Max Morrison , Rithesh Kumar , Kundan Kumar , Prem Seetharaman , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

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The analysis of parametric and non-parametric uncertainties of very large dynamical systems requires the construction of a stochastic model of said system. Linear approaches relying on random matrix theory and principal componant analysis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-02 Hamza Boukraichi , Nissrine Akkari , Fabien Casenave , David Ryckelynck

We present a deep neural network based singing voice synthesizer, inspired by the Deep Convolutions Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) architecture and optimized using the Wasserstein-GAN algorithm. We use vocoder parameters for…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Pritish Chandna , Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Emilia Gomez

In semiconductor manufacturing, the wafer dicing process is central yet vulnerable to defects that significantly impair yield - the proportion of defect-free chips. Deep neural networks are the current state of the art in (semi-)automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhining Hu , Tobias Schlosser , Michael Friedrich , André Luiz Vieira e Silva , Frederik Beuth , Danny Kowerko

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce high-quality images but are challenging to train. They need careful regularization, vast amounts of compute, and expensive hyper-parameter sweeps. We make significant headway on these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Axel Sauer , Kashyap Chitta , Jens Müller , Andreas Geiger

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistic samples from high-dimensional distributions, but training them is considered hard. A possible explanation for training instabilities is the inherent imbalance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-12 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Giambattista Parascandolo , Arash Mehrjou , Bernhard Schölkopf

In this paper, we aim to improve the state-of-the-art video generative adversarial networks (GANs) with a view towards multi-functional applications. Our improved video GAN model does not separate foreground from background nor dynamic from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Bernhard Kratzwald , Zhiwu Huang , Danda Pani Paudel , Acharya Dinesh , Luc Van Gool

Distributional causal inference requires estimating not only average treatment effects but also interventional outcome distributions, including quantiles, tail risks, and policy-dependent uncertainty. As a method for distributional causal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Shu Tamano , Masaaki Imaizumi

A rapidly growing area of work has studied the existence of adversarial examples, datapoints which have been perturbed to fool a classifier, but the vast majority of these works have focused primarily on threat models defined by $\ell_p$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Eric Wong , Frank R. Schmidt , J. Zico Kolter

In this paper, we investigate the underlying factor that leads to failure and success in the training of GANs. We study the property of the optimal discriminative function and show that in many GANs, the gradient from the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Zhiming Zhou , Yuxuan Song , Lantao Yu , Hongwei Wang , Jiadong Liang , Weinan Zhang , Zhihua Zhang , Yong Yu

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a state-of-the-art technique in the field of deep learning. A number of recent papers address the theory and applications of GANs in various fields of image processing. Fewer studies, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew

We study the ability of Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (WGAN) to generate missing audio content which is, in context, (statistically similar) to the sound and the neighboring borders. We deal with the challenge of audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 P. P. Ebner , A. Eltelt

We describe a new training methodology for generative adversarial networks. The key idea is to grow both the generator and discriminator progressively: starting from a low resolution, we add new layers that model increasingly fine details…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Tero Karras , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine , Jaakko Lehtinen