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Despite recent successes in synthesizing faces and bedrooms, existing generative models struggle to capture more complex image types, potentially due to the oversimplification of their latent space constructions. To tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Yuandong Tian

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have played a key role in scaling up diffusion-based generative models, as in Stable Diffusion, yet questions regarding their robustness remain largely underexplored. Although adversarial training has been an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Hyomin Lee , Minseon Kim , Sangwon Jang , Jongheon Jeong , Sung Ju Hwang

In recent years, deep learning based generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Diffusion Models (DMs), have been instrumental in in generating diverse, high-quality content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shamim Yazdani , Akansha Singh , Nripsuta Saxena , Zichong Wang , Avash Palikhe , Deng Pan , Umapada Pal , Jie Yang , Wenbin Zhang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have attracted much research attention recently, leading to impressive results for natural image generation. However, to date little success was observed in using GAN generated images for improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Xinlong Wang , Zhipeng Man , Mingyu You , Chunhua Shen

Natural Adversarial Examples (NAEs), images arising naturally from the environment and capable of deceiving classifiers, are instrumental in robustly evaluating and identifying vulnerabilities in trained models. In this work, unlike prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Yueqian Lin , Jingyang Zhang , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Any autoencoder network can be turned into a generative model by imposing an arbitrary prior distribution on its hidden code vector. Variational Autoencoder (VAE) [2] uses a KL divergence penalty to impose the prior, whereas Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Mahdi Azarafrooz

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great success in generating high quality images and are thus used as one of the main approaches to generate art images. However, usually the image generation process involves sampling from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ole Hall , Anil Yaman

We introduce the Kernel-Elastic Autoencoder (KAE), a self-supervised generative model based on the transformer architecture with enhanced performance for molecular design. KAE is formulated based on two novel loss functions: modified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Haote Li , Yu Shee , Brandon Allen , Federica Maschietto , Victor Batista

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

In this paper, we explore the use of a variational autoencoder (VAE), a deep generative model, to compress and generate images of dark matter density fields from $\Lambda$CDM like cosmological simulations. The VAE learns a compact,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Jazhiel Chacón-Lavanderos , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez , J. Alberto Vázquez

Recent advancements in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have enabled photorealistic image generation with high quality. However, the malicious use of such generated media has raised concerns regarding visual misinformation. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liviu-Daniel Ştefan , Dan-Cristian Stanciu , Mihai Dogariu , Mihai Gabriel Constantin , Andrei Cosmin Jitaru , Bogdan Ionescu

Deep generative models have been used in recent years to learn coherent latent representations in order to synthesize high-quality images. In this work, we propose a neural network to learn a generative model for sampling consistent indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Pulak Purkait , Christopher Zach , Ian Reid

Combining neuroimaging datasets from multiple sites and scanners can help increase statistical power and thus provide greater insight into subtle neuroanatomical effects. However, site-specific effects pose a challenge by potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ayodeji Ijishakin , Ana Lawry Aguila , Elizabeth Levitis , Ahmed Abdulaal , Andre Altmann , James Cole

Deep conditional generative models are excellent tools for creating high-quality images and editing their attributes. However, training modern generative models from scratch is very expensive and requires large computational resources. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Andrzej Bedychaj , Jacek Tabor , Marek Śmieja

Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs) are applied to the synthetic generation of prostate lesion MRI images. GANs have been applied to a variety of natural images, is shown show that the same techniques can be used in the medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Andy Kitchen , Jarrel Seah

This paper presents a new Text-to-Image generation model, named Distribution Regularization Generative Adversarial Network (DR-GAN), to generate images from text descriptions from improved distribution learning. In DR-GAN, we introduce two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hongchen Tan , Xiuping Liu , Baocai Yin , Xin Li

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) rely heavily on the compressed latent space provided by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for high-quality image generation. Recent studies have attempted to obtain generation-friendly VAEs by directly adopting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 John Page , Xuesong Niu , Kai Wu , Kun Gai

Modern ultra-high-resolution image synthesis relies heavily on the robust generative capacity of large-scale pre-trained Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs). While recent representation alignment methods have proven effective by distilling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jinjin Zhang , Xiefan Guo , Di Huang

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have recently emerged as powerful tools for interpreting and steering the internal representations of large language models (LLMs). However, conventional approaches to analyzing SAEs typically rely solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dong Shu , Xuansheng Wu , Haiyan Zhao , Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu

We explore methods of producing adversarial examples on deep generative models such as the variational autoencoder (VAE) and the VAE-GAN. Deep learning architectures are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, but previous work has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-23 Jernej Kos , Ian Fischer , Dawn Song