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Contrastive learning has recently seen tremendous success in self-supervised learning. So far, however, it is largely unclear why the learned representations generalize so effectively to a large variety of downstream tasks. We here prove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Roland S. Zimmermann , Yash Sharma , Steffen Schneider , Matthias Bethge , Wieland Brendel

Generating high-quality synthetic time series is a fundamental yet challenging task across domains such as forecasting and anomaly detection, where real data can be scarce, noisy, or costly to collect. Unlike static data generation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 MohammadReza EskandariNasab , Shah Muhammad Hamdi , Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful models able to synthesize data samples closely resembling the distribution of real data, yet the diversity of those generated samples is limited due to the so-called mode collapse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jan Dubiński , Kamil Deja , Sandro Wenzel , Przemysław Rokita , Tomasz Trzciński

Correctly capturing the symmetry transformations of data can lead to efficient models with strong generalization capabilities, though methods incorporating symmetries often require prior knowledge. While recent advancements have been made…

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

Adequate sampling space coverage is the keystone to effectively train trustworthy Machine Learning models. Unfortunately, real data do carry several inherent risks due to the many potential biases they exhibit when gathered without a proper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Antonio Maratea , Rita Perna

We propose a new approach to train the Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) with a mixture of generators to overcome the mode collapsing problem. The main intuition is to employ multiple generators, instead of using a single one as in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Quan Hoang , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Trung Le , Dinh Phung

Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to generate impressive photo-realistic images. However, controllable generation with GANs remains a challenging research problem. Achieving controllable generation requires semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Grigorios G Chrysos , Jean Kossaifi , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar

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

Generative models are now capable of producing highly realistic images that look nearly indistinguishable from the data on which they are trained. This raises the question: if we have good enough generative models, do we still need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Ali Jahanian , Xavier Puig , Yonglong Tian , Phillip Isola

We present a novel method and analysis to train generative adversarial networks (GAN) in a stable manner. As shown in recent analysis, training is often undermined by the probability distribution of the data being zero on neighborhoods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

We propose a simple algorithm to train stochastic neural networks to draw samples from given target distributions for probabilistic inference. Our method is based on iteratively adjusting the neural network parameters so that the output…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-29 Dilin Wang , Qiang Liu

Autoregressive models based on Transformers have become the prevailing approach for generating music compositions that exhibit comprehensive musical structure. These models are typically trained by minimizing the negative log-likelihood…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ziyi Jiang , Ruoxue Wu , Zhenghan Chen , Xiaoxuan Liang

The main challenge in continual learning for generative models is to effectively learn new target modes with limited samples while preserving previously learned ones. To this end, we introduce a new continual learning approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Cat P. Le , Juncheng Dong , Ahmed Aloui , Vahid Tarokh

The widespread adoption of wearable sensors has the potential to provide massive and heterogeneous time series data, driving the use of Artificial Intelligence in human sensing applications. However, data collection remains limited due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Flavio Di Martino , Franca Delmastro

Generative adversarial network (GAN) continues to be a popular research direction due to its high generation quality. It is observed that many state-of-the-art GANs generate samples that are more similar to the training set than a holdout…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Andrew Bai , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Wendy Kan , Hsuan-Tien Lin

In many domains generating variable length sequences through insertions provides greater flexibility over autoregressive models. However, the action space of insertion models is much larger than that of autoregressive models (ARMs) making…

Time series synthesis is an effective approach to ensuring the secure circulation of time series data. Existing time series synthesis methods typically perform temporal modeling based on random sequences to generate target sequences, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Xuan Hou , Shuhan Liu , Zhaohui Peng , Yaohui Chu , Yue Zhang , Yining Wang

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) aims to learn a dynamic model to reduce the number of interactions with real-world environments. However, due to estimation error, rollouts in the learned model, especially those of long horizons,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yueh-Hua Wu , Ting-Han Fan , Peter J. Ramadge , Hao Su

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a novel approach to generative modelling, a task whose goal it is to learn a distribution of real data points. They have often proved difficult to train: GANs are unlike many techniques in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Samuel A. Barnett