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Recently, generative machine-learning models have gained popularity in physics, driven by the goal of improving the efficiency of Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques and of exploring their potential in capturing experimental data…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-03 Japneet Singh , Vipul Arora , Vinay Gupta , Mathias S. Scheurer

Transfer learning is prevalent as a technique to efficiently generate new models (Student models) based on the knowledge transferred from a pre-trained model (Teacher model). However, Teacher models are often publicly available for sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Bang Wu , Shuo Wang , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang , Carsten Rudolph , Xiangwen Yang

Data inherently possesses dual attributes: samples and targets. For targets, knowledge distillation has been widely employed to accelerate model convergence, primarily relying on teacher-generated soft target supervision. Conversely, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Runkang Yang , Peng Sun , Xinyi Shang , Yi Tang , Tao Lin

Different from the current node-level anomaly detection task, the goal of graph-level anomaly detection is to find abnormal graphs that significantly differ from others in a graph set. Due to the scarcity of research on the work of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Fu Lin , Xuexiong Luo , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Zitong Wang , Haonan Gong

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) are a promising technique for modeling a distribution from samples. It is however well known that GAN training suffers from instability due to the nature of its maximin formulation. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Yujia Li , Alexander Schwing , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Richard Zemel

Model stealing attacks present a dilemma for public machine learning APIs. To protect financial investments, companies may be forced to withhold important information about their models that could facilitate theft, including uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Mantas Mazeika , Bo Li , David Forsyth

Dual discriminator generative adversarial networks (D2 GANs) were introduced to mitigate the problem of mode collapse in generative adversarial networks. In D2 GANs, two discriminators are employed alongside a generator: one discriminator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Penukonda Naga Chandana , Tejas Srivastava , Gowtham R. Kurri , V. Lalitha

While deep learning has outperformed other methods for various tasks, theoretical frameworks that explain its reason have not been fully established. To address this issue, we investigate the excess risk of two-layer ReLU neural networks in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-07 Shunta Akiyama , Taiji Suzuki

Recent approaches have shown promises distilling diffusion models into efficient one-step generators. Among them, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) produces one-step generators that match their teacher in distribution, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Taesung Park , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman

Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is a strong and widely used first-order adversarial attack, yet its computational cost scales poorly, as all training samples undergo identical iterative inner-loop optimization despite contributing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Youran Ye , Dejin Wang , Ajinkya Bhandare

The task of unsupervised domain adaptation is proposed to transfer the knowledge of a label-rich domain (source domain) to a label-scarce domain (target domain). Matching feature distributions between different domains is a widely applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Toshihiko Matsuura , Kuniaki Saito , Tatsuya Harada

Despite the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), their training suffers from several well-known problems, including mode collapse and difficulties learning a disconnected set of manifolds. In this paper, we break down the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Mohammadreza Armandpour , Ali Sadeghian , Chunyuan Li , Mingyuan Zhou

A popular method for anomaly detection is to use the generator of an adversarial network to formulate anomaly scores over reconstruction loss of input. Due to the rare occurrence of anomalies, optimizing such networks can be a cumbersome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Jin-ha Lee , Marcella Astrid , Seung-Ik Lee

Training generative models with differential privacy (DP) typically involves injecting noise into gradient updates or adapting the discriminator's training procedure. As a result, such approaches often struggle with hyper-parameter tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kristjan Greenewald , Yuancheng Yu , Hao Wang , Kai Xu

Humans are able to accelerate their learning by selecting training materials that are the most informative and at the appropriate level of difficulty. We propose a framework for distributing deep learning in which one set of workers search…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-19 Guillaume Alain , Alex Lamb , Chinnadhurai Sankar , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Generative adversarial networks are generative models that are capable of replicating the implicit probability distribution of the input data with high accuracy. Traditionally, GANs consist of a Generator and a Discriminator which interact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xin Wang

Distillation is the technique of training a "student" model based on examples that are labeled by a separate "teacher" model, which itself is trained on a labeled dataset. The most common explanations for why distillation "works" are…

We propose a manifold matching approach to generative models which includes a distribution generator (or data generator) and a metric generator. In our framework, we view the real data set as some manifold embedded in a high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mengyu Dai , Haibin Hang

Soft sensing infers hard-to-measure data through a large number of easily obtainable variables. However, in complex industrial scenarios, the issue of insufficient data volume persists, which diminishes the reliability of soft sensing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zesen Wang , Yonggang Li , Lijuan Lan

Modern large scale machine learning applications require stochastic optimization algorithms to be implemented on distributed computational architectures. A key bottleneck is the communication overhead for exchanging information, such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zijie Yan