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Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that have been widely used in various fields, including image and text generation. However, one of the known challenges in using VAEs is the model's sensitivity to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Gabriela Sejnova , Michal Vavrecka , Karla Stepanova

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been effective for learning generative models for real-world data. However, existing GANs (GAN and its variants) tend to suffer from training problems such as instability and mode collapse. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Chaoyue Wang , Chang Xu , Xin Yao , Dacheng Tao

Unsupervised learning of generative models has seen tremendous progress over recent years, in particular due to generative adversarial networks (GANs), variational autoencoders, and flow-based models. GANs have dramatically improved sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Thomas Lucas , Konstantin Shmelkov , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid , Jakob Verbeek

Latent generative models have emerged as a leading approach for high-quality image synthesis. These models rely on an autoencoder to compress images into a latent space, followed by a generative model to learn the latent distribution. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Theodoros Kouzelis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown remarkable results on various image synthesis tasks such as text-to-image generation and image inpainting. However, compared to other generative methods like VAEs and GANs, DPMs lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yipeng Leng , Qiangjuan Huang , Zhiyuan Wang , Yangyang Liu , Haoyu Zhang

In traditional generative modeling, good data representation is very often a base for a good machine learning model. It can be linked to good representations encoding more explanatory factors that are hidden in the original data. With the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Maciej Zamorski , Adrian Zdobylak , Maciej Zięba , Jerzy Świątek

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) play an increasingly important role in machine learning. However, there is one fundamental issue hindering their practical applications: the absence of capability for encoding real-world samples. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jiapeng Zhu , Deli Zhao , Bo Zhang , Bolei Zhou

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

Recent proposals for quantum generative adversarial networks (GANs) suffer from the issue of mode collapse, analogous to classical GANs, wherein the distribution learnt by the GAN fails to capture the high mode complexities of the target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Aaron Mark Thomas , Harry Youel , Sharu Theresa Jose

Strong generative models can accurately learn channel distributions. This could save recurring costs for physical measurements of the channel. Moreover, the resulting differentiable channel model supports training neural encoders by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Muah Kim , Rick Fritschek , Rafael F. Schaefer

Generative models have attracted significant interest due to their ability to handle uncertainty by learning the inherent data distributions. However, two prominent generative models, namely Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yu Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Liangwei Yang , Philip S. Yu

Quantum generative modeling is a very active area of research in looking for practical advantage in data analysis. Quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs) are leading candidates for quantum generative modeling and have been applied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Milan Liepelt , Julien Baglio

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a powerful framework for generative tasks. However, they are difficult to train and tend to miss modes of the true data generation process. Although GANs can learn a rich representation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Robin Winter , Djork-Arné Clevert

We present a novel artificial cognitive mapping system using generative deep neural networks, called variational autoencoder/generative adversarial network (VAE/GAN), which can map input images to latent vectors and generate temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Hiroki Kojima , Takashi Ikegami

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable achievements in image synthesis. These successes of GANs rely on large scale datasets, requiring too much cost. With limited training data, how to stable the training process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Ziqiang Li , Beihao Xia , Jing Zhang , Chaoyue Wang , Bin Li

Diffusion-based generative models learn to iteratively transfer unstructured noise to a complex target distribution as opposed to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or the decoder of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) which produce samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Sarthak Mittal , Guillaume Lajoie , Stefan Bauer , Arash Mehrjou

This paper introduces a novel generative encoder (GE) model for generative imaging and image processing with applications in compressed sensing and imaging, image compression, denoising, inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution. The GE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Lin Chen , Haizhao Yang

In the years since Goodfellow et al. introduced Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there has been an explosion in the breadth and quality of generative model applications. Despite this work, GANs still have a long way to go before they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Conor Lazarou

Latent diffusion models have established a new state-of-the-art in high-resolution visual generation. Integrating Vision Foundation Model priors improves generative efficiency, yet existing latent designs remain largely heuristic. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hangyu Liu , Jianyong Wang , Yutao Sun

In this paper, we show that the performance of a learnt generative model is closely related to the model's ability to accurately represent the inferred \textbf{latent data distribution}, i.e. its topology and structural properties. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shuyu Lin , Ronald Clark