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Score-based generative models have demonstrated significant practical success in data-generating tasks. The models establish a diffusion process that perturbs the ground truth data to Gaussian noise and then learn the reverse process to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ziqing Wen , Xiaoge Deng , Ping Luo , Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li

Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) can be used to generate realistic samples from complicated image distributions. The Wasserstein metric used in WGANs is based on a notion of distance between individual images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Jonas Adler , Sebastian Lunz

Generative modeling typically concerns transporting a single source distribution to a target distribution via simple probability flows. However, in fields like computer graphics and single-cell genomics, samples themselves can be viewed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Doron Haviv , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Dana Pe'er , Brandon Amos

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one of the most practical methods for learning data distributions. A popular GAN formulation is based on the use of Wasserstein distance as a metric between probability distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Maziar Sanjabi , Jimmy Ba , Meisam Razaviyayn , Jason D. Lee

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have received a tremendous amount of attention in the past few years, and have inspired applications addressing a wide range of problems. Despite its great potential, GANs are difficult to train.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Zhimin Chen , Yuguang Tong

Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) are very successful at modeling distributions from given samples, even in the high-dimensional case. However, their formulation is also known to be hard to optimize and often not stable. While this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Ishan Deshpande , Ziyu Zhang , Alexander Schwing

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been successful in producing outstanding results in areas as diverse as image, video, and text generation. Building on these successes, a large number of empirical studies have validated the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Gérard Biau , Maxime Sangnier , Ugo Tanielian

This paper explores the problem of generative modeling, aiming to simulate diverse examples from an unknown distribution based on observed examples. While recent studies have focused on quantifying the statistical precision of popular…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Elen Vardanyan , Sona Hunanyan , Tigran Galstyan , Arshak Minasyan , Arnak Dalalyan

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have demonstrated remarkable synthesis quality. SGMs rely on a diffusion process that gradually perturbs the data towards a tractable distribution, while the generative model learns to denoise. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-28 Tim Dockhorn , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

Recently, Deng et al. (2026) proposed Generative Modeling via Drifting (GMD), a novel framework for generative tasks. This note presents an analysis of GMD through the lens of Wasserstein Gradient Flows (WGF), i.e., the path of steepest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Arthur Gretton , Li Kevin Wenliang , Alexandre Galashov , James Thornton , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet

With the rapidly growing model complexity and data volume, training deep generative models (DGMs) for better performance has becoming an increasingly more important challenge. Previous research on this problem has mainly focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yufan Zhou , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

Generative networks have experienced great empirical successes in distribution learning. Many existing experiments have demonstrated that generative networks can generate high-dimensional complex data from a low-dimensional easy-to-sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-28 Biraj Dahal , Alex Havrilla , Minshuo Chen , Tuo Zhao , Wenjing Liao

We propose a stable, parallel approach to train Wasserstein Conditional Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (W-CGANs) under the constraint of a fixed computational budget. Differently from previous distributed GANs training techniques,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Junqi Yin

This paper studies the optimization of the KL functional on the Wasserstein space of probability measures, and develops a sampling framework based on Wasserstein gradient descent (WGD). We identify two important subclasses of the…

Computation · Statistics 2026-02-04 Van Chien Ta , Thi Mai Hong Chu , Minh-Ngoc Tran

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have demonstrated unparalleled sampling quality and diversity in numerous fields, such as image generation, voice synthesis, and tabular data synthesis, etc. Inspired by those outstanding results, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haksoo Lim , Jaehoon Lee , Sewon Park , Minjung Kim , Noseong Park

Score-based generative modeling with probability flow ordinary differential equations (ODEs) has achieved remarkable success in a variety of applications. While various fast ODE-based samplers have been proposed in the literature and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-12 Xuefeng Gao , Lingjiong Zhu

We examine the capability of generative models to produce realistic galaxy images. We show that mixing generated data with the original data improves the robustness in downstream machine learning tasks. We focus on three different data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Benjamin J. Holzschuh , Conor M. O'Riordan , Simona Vegetti , Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez , Nils Thuerey

We propose a semi-supervised generative model, SeGMA, which learns a joint probability distribution of data and their classes and which is implemented in a typical Wasserstein auto-encoder framework. We choose a mixture of Gaussians as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Marek Śmieja , Maciej Wołczyk , Jacek Tabor , Bernhard C. Geiger

Minimum distance estimation (MDE) gained recent attention as a formulation of (implicit) generative modeling. It considers minimizing, over model parameters, a statistical distance between the empirical data distribution and the model. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Kengo Kato

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have gained prominence in sparse-view CT reconstruction for their precise sampling of complex distributions. In SGM-based reconstruction, data consistency in the score-based diffusion model ensures close…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Weiwen Wu , Yanyang Wang