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In recent years, multi-scale generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been proposed to build generalized image processing models based on single sample. Constraining on the sample size, multi-scale GANs have much difficulty converging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jing Tang , Bo Tao , Zeyu Gong , Zhouping Yin

While adversarial training methods have significantly improved the robustness of deep neural networks against norm-bounded adversarial perturbations, the generalization gap between their performance on training and test data is considerably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Xiwei Cheng , Kexin Fu , Farzan Farnia

We propose a principled method for gradient-based regularization of the critic of GAN-like models trained by adversarially optimizing the kernel of a Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). We show that controlling the gradient of the critic is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Michael Arbel , Danica J. Sutherland , Mikołaj Bińkowski , Arthur Gretton

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) nowadays are capable of producing images of incredible realism. One concern raised is whether the state-of-the-art GAN's learned distribution still suffers from mode collapse, and what to do if so.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zhenyu Wu , Zhaowen Wang , Ye Yuan , Jianming Zhang , Zhangyang Wang , Hailin Jin

Up to now, the training processes of typical Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are still particularly sensitive to data properties and hyperparameters, which may lead to severe oscillations, difficulties in convergence, or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Lin Wang , Xiancheng Wang , Rui Wang , Zhibo Zhang , Minghang Zhao

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are proficient at generating synthetic data but continue to suffer from mode collapse, where the generator produces a narrow range of outputs that fool the discriminator but fail to capture the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mahsa Valizadeh , Rui Tuo , James Caverlee

In this paper, we propose a novel normalization method called gradient normalization (GN) to tackle the training instability of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) caused by the sharp gradient space. Unlike existing work such as gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yi-Lun Wu , Hong-Han Shuai , Zhi-Rui Tam , Hong-Yu Chiu

One of the challenges in the study of generative adversarial networks is the instability of its training. In this paper, we propose a novel weight normalization technique called spectral normalization to stabilize the training of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Takeru Miyato , Toshiki Kataoka , Masanori Koyama , Yuichi Yoshida

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), modeled as a zero-sum game between a generator (G) and a discriminator (D), allow generating synthetic data with formal guarantees. Noting that D is a classifier, we begin by reformulating the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Monica Welfert , Gowtham R. Kurri , Kyle Otstot , Lalitha Sankar

Spectral normalization (SN) is a widely-used technique for improving the stability and sample quality of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, there is currently limited understanding of why SN is effective. In this work, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Zinan Lin , Vyas Sekar , Giulia Fanti

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are powerful generative models, but usually suffer from instability and generalization problem which may lead to poor generations. Most existing works focus on stabilizing the training of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Shufei Zhang , Zhuang Qian , Kaizhu Huang , Jimin Xiao , Yuan He

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have produced significantly improved results in speech enhancement (SE) tasks. They are difficult to train, however. In this work, we introduce several improvements to the GAN training…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Vasily Zadorozhnyy , Qiang Ye , Kazuhito Koishida

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as a powerful tool for generating high-fidelity data. However, the main bottleneck of existing approaches is the lack of supervision on the generator training, which often results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Baoren Xiao , Hao Ni , Weixin Yang

We propose Unbalanced GANs, which pre-trains the generator of the generative adversarial network (GAN) using variational autoencoder (VAE). We guarantee the stable training of the generator by preventing the faster convergence of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Hyungrok Ham , Tae Joon Jun , Daeyoung Kim

Recurrent neural networks have been extensively studied in the context of neuroscience and machine learning due to their ability to implement complex computations. While substantial progress in designing effective learning algorithms has…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-21 Francesca Mastrogiuseppe , Srdjan Ostojic

We formulate the training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) as a Nash equilibrium seeking problem. To stabilize the training process and find a Nash equilibrium, we propose an asymmetric regularization mechanism based on the classic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Spyridon C. Giagtzoglou , Mark H. M. Winands , Barbara Franci

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown promise for various problems including anomaly detection. When anomaly detection is performed using GAN models that learn only the features of normal data samples, data that are not similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Teguh Budianto , Tomohiro Nakai , Kazunori Imoto , Takahiro Takimoto , Kosuke Haruki

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a popular method to learn a probability model from data. In this paper, we aim to provide an understanding of some of the basic issues surrounding GANs including their formulation,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-23 Soheil Feizi , Farzan Farnia , Tony Ginart , David Tse

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have made impressive advances in image generation, but they often require large-scale training data to avoid degradation caused by discriminator overfitting. To tackle this issue, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Jian Wang , Xin Lan , Yuxin Tian , Jiancheng Lv

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful generative models, but suffer from training instability. The recently proposed Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) makes progress toward stable training of GANs, but sometimes can still generate only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Ishaan Gulrajani , Faruk Ahmed , Martin Arjovsky , Vincent Dumoulin , Aaron Courville