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The success of deep learning-based generative models in producing realistic images, videos, and audios has led to a crucial consideration: how to effectively assess the quality of synthetic samples. While the Fr\'{e}chet Inception Distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yang Chen , Dustin J. Kempton , Rafal A. Angryk

We systematically study a wide variety of generative models spanning semantically-diverse image datasets to understand and improve the feature extractors and metrics used to evaluate them. Using best practices in psychophysics, we measure…

Federated learning has emerged as a paradigm to train models collaboratively on inherently distributed client data while safeguarding privacy. In this context, personalized federated learning tackles the challenge of data heterogeneity by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Peng Hu , Jianwei Ma

We develop a measure for evaluating the performance of generative networks given two sets of images. A popular performance measure currently used to do this is the Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID). FID assumes that images featurized using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Lorenzo Luzi , Carlos Ortiz Marrero , Nile Wynar , Richard G. Baraniuk , Michael J. Henry

Generative models have revolutionized multiple domains, yet their application to tabular data remains underexplored. Evaluating generative models for tabular data presents unique challenges due to structural complexity, large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Dayananda Herurkar , Ahmad Ali , Andreas Dengel

Learning a parametric model from a given dataset indeed enables to capture intrinsic dependencies between random variables via a parametric conditional probability distribution and in turn predict the value of a label variable given…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-14 Elouan Argouarc'h , François Desbouvries , Eric Barat , Eiji Kawasaki

Federated learning achieves joint training of deep models by connecting decentralized data sources, which can significantly mitigate the risk of privacy leakage. However, in a more general case, the distributions of labels among clients are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Tao Sheng , Chengchao Shen , Yuan Liu , Yeyu Ou , Zhe Qu , Jianxin Wang

This work evaluates the robustness of quality measures of generative models such as Inception Score (IS) and Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID). Analogous to the vulnerability of deep models against a variety of adversarial attacks, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Motasem Alfarra , Juan C. Pérez , Anna Frühstück , Philip H. S. Torr , Peter Wonka , Bernard Ghanem

Generative models are typically trained on grid-like data such as images. As a result, the size of these models usually scales directly with the underlying grid resolution. In this paper, we abandon discretized grids and instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Emilien Dupont , Yee Whye Teh , Arnaud Doucet

Generative models trained on multi-institutional datasets can provide an enriched understanding through diverse data distributions. However, training the models on medical images is often challenging due to hospitals' reluctance to share…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Minjun Kim , Minjee Kim , Jinhoon Jeong

Generative adversarial networks or GANs are a type of generative modeling framework. GANs involve a pair of neural networks engaged in a competition in iteratively creating fake data, indistinguishable from the real data. One notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Eric J. Nunn , Pejman Khadivi , Shadrokh Samavi

In this paper we discuss a class of AutoEncoder based generative models based on one dimensional sliced approach. The idea is based on the reduction of the discrimination between samples to one-dimensional case. Our experiments show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Szymon Knop , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Igor Podolak , Przemysław Spurek

Federated Learning enables visual models to be trained on-device, bringing advantages for user privacy (data need never leave the device), but challenges in terms of data diversity and quality. Whilst typical models in the datacenter are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Tzu-Ming Harry Hsu , Hang Qi , Matthew Brown

Federated Learning has gained attention for its ability to enable multiple nodes to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing raw data. At the same time, Generative AI -- particularly Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Youssef Tawfilis , Hossam Amer , Minar El-Aasser , Tallal Elshabrawy

We show that Fr\'echet Distance (FD), long considered impractical as a training objective, can in fact be effectively optimized in the representation space. Our idea is simple: decouple the population size for FD estimation (e.g., 50k) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jiawei Yang , Zhengyang Geng , Xuan Ju , Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang

The machine learning community has mainly relied on real data to benchmark algorithms as it provides compelling evidence of model applicability. Evaluation on synthetic datasets can be a powerful tool to provide a better understanding of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Florence Regol , Anja Kroon , Mark Coates

Feature embeddings acquired from pretrained models are widely used in medical applications of deep learning to assess the characteristics of datasets; e.g. to determine the quality of synthetic, generated medical images. The Fr\'{e}chet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ciaran Bench , Vivek Desai , Carlijn Roozemond , Ruben van Engen , Spencer A. Thomas

Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) is a widely used metric for assessing synthetic image quality. It relies on an ImageNet-based feature extractor, making its applicability to medical imaging unclear. A recent trend is to adapt FID to…

With success on controlled tasks, generative models are being increasingly applied to humanitarian applications [1,2]. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of a conditional generative model that illustrates the consequences of climate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Sharon Zhou , Alexandra Luccioni , Gautier Cosne , Michael S. Bernstein , Yoshua Bengio

Emerging technologies and applications including Internet of Things (IoT), social networking, and crowd-sourcing generate large amounts of data at the network edge. Machine learning models are often built from the collected data, to enable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Shiqiang Wang , Tiffany Tuor , Theodoros Salonidis , Kin K. Leung , Christian Makaya , Ting He , Kevin Chan