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Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training samples from a trained model without full retraining. While prior work has largely focused on privacy-motivated settings, we recast unlearning as a general-purpose tool…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 George R. Nahass , Zhu Wang , Homa Rashidisabet , Won Hwa Kim , Sasha Hubschman , Jeffrey C. Peterson , Chad A. Purnell , Pete Setabutr , Ann Q. Tran , Darvin Yi , Sathya N. Ravi

The latent variables learned by VAEs have seen considerable interest as an unsupervised way of extracting features, which can then be used for downstream tasks. There is a growing interest in the question of whether features learned on one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Mohammad Havaei , Alex Lamb , Aditya Sanghi , Ara Danielyan , Tonya Custis

We present an autoencoder that leverages learned representations to better measure similarities in data space. By combining a variational autoencoder with a generative adversarial network we can use learned feature representations in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen , Søren Kaae Sønderby , Hugo Larochelle , Ole Winther

This paper tackles unpaired image enhancement, a task of learning a mapping function which transforms input images into enhanced images in the absence of input-output image pairs. Our method is based on generative adversarial networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Despite the success of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image generation, the trade-off between visual quality and image diversity remains a significant issue. This paper achieves both aims simultaneously by improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Duhyeon Bang , Hyunjung Shim

Machine Unlearning allows participants to remove their data from a trained machine learning model in order to preserve their privacy, and security. However, the machine unlearning literature for generative models is rather limited. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ayush K. Varshney , Vicenç Torra

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown increasing success in generating photorealistic images. But they also raise challenges to visual forensics and model attribution. We present the first study of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Ning Yu , Larry Davis , Mario Fritz

In this paper, we present an unsupervised learning approach for analyzing facial behavior based on a deep generative model combined with a convolutional neural network (CNN). We jointly train a variational auto-encoder (VAE) and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Suman Saha , Rajitha Navarathna , Leonhard Helminger , Romann Weber

We study the problem of unlearning datapoints from a learnt model. The learner first receives a dataset $S$ drawn i.i.d. from an unknown distribution, and outputs a model $\widehat{w}$ that performs well on unseen samples from the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Ayush Sekhari , Jayadev Acharya , Gautam Kamath , Ananda Theertha Suresh

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have attained photo-realistic quality in image generation. However, how to best control the image content remains an open challenge. We introduce LatentKeypointGAN, a two-stage GAN which is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn enormous attention due to the simple yet effective training mechanism and superior image generation quality. With the ability to generate photo-realistic high-resolution (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ming Liu , Yuxiang Wei , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

The literature has proposed several methods to finetune pretrained GANs on new datasets, which typically results in higher performance compared to training from scratch, especially in the limited-data regime. However, despite the apparent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Timofey Grigoryev , Andrey Voynov , Artem Babenko

Users may inadvertently upload personally identifiable information (PII) to Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) providers. When users no longer want their PII on these services, regulations like GDPR and COPPA mandate a right to forget…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Chenhan Zhang , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Hassan Asghar , Dali Kaafar

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful framework for learning to draw samples from complex distributions. However, GANs are also notoriously difficult to train, with mode collapse and oscillations a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-28 Kevin J Liang , Chunyuan Li , Guoyin Wang , Lawrence Carin

The growing concern over training data privacy has elevated the "Right to be Forgotten" into a critical requirement, thereby raising the demand for effective Machine Unlearning. However, existing unlearning approaches commonly suffer from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Haoyu Wang , Zhuo Huang , Xiaolong Wang , Bo Han , Zhiwei Lin , Tongliang Liu

Recent advances in generative models trained on large-scale datasets have made it possible to synthesize high-quality samples across various domains. Moreover, the emergence of strong inversion networks enables not only a reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Juwon Seo , Sung-Hoon Lee , Tae-Young Lee , Seungjun Moon , Gyeong-Moon Park

Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to generate impressive photo-realistic images. However, controllable generation with GANs remains a challenging research problem. Achieving controllable generation requires semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Grigorios G Chrysos , Jean Kossaifi , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar

Generating and manipulating human facial images using high-level attributal controls are important and interesting problems. The models proposed in previous work can solve one of these two problems (generation or manipulation), but not both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Weidong Yin , Yanwei Fu , Leonid Sigal , Xiangyang Xue

We present a method for training a regression network from image pixels to 3D morphable model coordinates using only unlabeled photographs. The training loss is based on features from a facial recognition network, computed on-the-fly by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Kyle Genova , Forrester Cole , Aaron Maschinot , Aaron Sarna , Daniel Vlasic , William T. Freeman

Recent years witness the tremendous success of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in synthesizing photo-realistic images. GAN generator learns to compose realistic images and reproduce the real data distribution. Through that, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Yinghao Xu , Yujun Shen , Jiapeng Zhu , Ceyuan Yang , Bolei Zhou