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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

The ability of a classifier to recognize unknown inputs is important for many classification-based systems. We discuss the problem of simultaneous classification and novelty detection, i.e. determining whether an input is from the known set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Mark Kliger , Shachar Fleishman

We propose a new Tipping Point Generative Adversarial Network (TIP-GAN) for better characterizing potential climate tipping points in Earth system models. We describe an adversarial game to explore the parameter space of these models,…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been a popular deep generative model for real-world applications. Despite many recent efforts on GANs that have been contributed, mode collapse and instability of GANs are still open problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Shiming Chen , Wenjie Wang , Beihao Xia , Xinge You , Zehong Cao , Weiping Ding

Detecting social media bots is essential for maintaining the security and trustworthiness of social networks. While contemporary graph-based detection methods demonstrate promising results, their practical application is limited by label…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Buyun He , Xiaorui Jiang , Qi Wu , Hao Liu , Yingguang Yang , Yong Liao

Since their inception in 2014, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have rapidly emerged as powerful tools for generating realistic and diverse data across various domains, including computer vision and other applied areas. Consisting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tanujit Chakraborty , Ujjwal Reddy K S , Shraddha M. Naik , Madhurima Panja , Bayapureddy Manvitha

One of the major breakthroughs in deep learning over the past five years has been the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), a neural network-based generative model which aims to mimic some underlying distribution given a dataset of samples.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Yeojoon Youn , Neil Thistlethwaite , Sang Keun Choe , Jacob Abernethy

This work introduces a novel system for the generation of images that contain multiple classes of objects. Recent work in Generative Adversarial Networks have produced high quality images, but many focus on generating images of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Elijah D. Bolluyt , Cristina Comaniciu

A generative adversarial network (GAN) has been a representative backbone model in generative artificial intelligence (AI) because of its powerful performance in capturing intricate data-generating processes. However, the GAN training is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-21 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song

In this paper, we study the generative models of sequential discrete data. To tackle the exposure bias problem inherent in maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), generative adversarial networks (GANs) are introduced to penalize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Sidi Lu , Lantao Yu , Siyuan Feng , Yaoming Zhu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

In biomedical image analysis, the applicability of deep learning methods is directly impacted by the quantity of image data available. This is due to deep learning models requiring large image datasets to provide high-level performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Muhammad Muneeb Saad , Ruairi O'Reilly , Mubashir Husain Rehmani

A basic, and still largely unanswered, question in the context of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is whether they are truly able to capture all the fundamental characteristics of the distributions they are trained on. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Shibani Santurkar , Ludwig Schmidt , Aleksander Mądry

Bot Detection is an essential asset in a period where Online Social Networks(OSN) is a part of our lives. This task becomes more relevant in crises, as the Covid-19 pandemic, where there is an incipient risk of proliferation of social bots,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Marzia Antenore , Jose M. Camacho-Rodriguez , Emanuele Panizzi

Traditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) and many of its variants are trained by minimizing the KL or JS-divergence loss that measures how close the generated data distribution is from the true data distribution. A recent advance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Marios Savvides

In this paper, we focus on the task of generating a pun sentence given a pair of word senses. A major challenge for pun generation is the lack of large-scale pun corpus to guide the supervised learning. To remedy this, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Fuli Luo , Shunyao Li , Pengcheng Yang , Lei li , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui , Xu Sun

Automated accounts on social media have become increasingly problematic. We propose a key feature in combination with existing methods to improve machine learning algorithms for bot detection. We successfully improve classification…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Laurenz A Cornelissen , Petrus Schoonwinkel , Richard J Barnett

Social media platforms continue to struggle with the growing presence of social bots-automated accounts that can influence public opinion and facilitate the spread of disinformation. Over time, these social bots have advanced significantly,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Edoardo Allegrini , Edoardo Di Paolo , Marinella Petrocchi , Angelo Spognardi

The detection of automated accounts, also known as "social bots", has been an increasingly important concern for online social networks (OSNs). While several methods have been proposed for detecting social bots, significant research gaps…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Mohammad Majid Akhtar , Navid Shadman Bhuiyan , Rahat Masood , Muhammad Ikram , Salil S. Kanhere

This paper addresses the mode collapse for generative adversarial networks (GANs). We view modes as a geometric structure of data distribution in a metric space. Under this geometric lens, we embed subsamples of the dataset from an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-12 Chang Xiao , Peilin Zhong , Changxi Zheng

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