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As synthetic content increasingly infiltrates the web, generative AI models may be retrained on their own outputs: a process termed "autophagy". This leads to model collapse: a progressive loss of performance and diversity across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daniele Gambetta , Gizem Gezici , Fosca Giannotti , Dino Pedreschi , Alistair Knott , Luca Pappalardo

Generative AI is a class of machine learning technology that learns to generate new data from training data. While deep fakes and media-and art-related generative AI breakthroughs have recently caught people's attention and imagination, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Stephanie Houde , Vera Liao , Jacquelyn Martino , Michael Muller , David Piorkowski , John Richards , Justin Weisz , Yunfeng Zhang

State of the art deep generative networks are capable of producing images with such incredible realism that they can be suspected of memorizing training images. It is why it is not uncommon to include visualizations of training set nearest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Ryan Webster , Julien Rabin , Loic Simon , Frederic Jurie

Personalized image synthesis has emerged as a pivotal application in text-to-image generation, enabling the creation of images featuring specific subjects in diverse contexts. While diffusion models have dominated this domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kaiyue Sun , Xian Liu , Yao Teng , Xihui Liu

Generative AI is transforming image synthesis, enabling the creation of high-quality, diverse, and photorealistic visuals across industries like design, media, healthcare, and autonomous systems. Advances in techniques such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Fouad Bousetouane

Anyone can take a photo, but not everybody has the ability to retouch their pictures and obtain result close to professional. Since it is not possible to ask experts to retouch thousands of pictures, we thought about teaching a piece of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Marc Bickel , Samuel Dubuis , Sébastien Gachoud

Generative AI systems have been heralded as tools for augmenting human creativity and inspiring divergent thinking, though with little empirical evidence for these claims. This paper explores the effects of exposure to AI-generated images…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Samangi Wadinambiarachchi , Ryan M. Kelly , Saumya Pareek , Qiushi Zhou , Eduardo Velloso

Modern language model-based AI systems are remarkably powerful, yet their capabilities remain fundamentally capped by their human creators in three key ways. First, although a model's weights can be updated via fine-tuning, acquiring new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zitong Yang

Recent text-to-image generation models have shown promising results in generating high-fidelity photo-realistic images. Though the results are astonishing to human eyes, how applicable these generated images are for recognition tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Ruifei He , Shuyang Sun , Xin Yu , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Philip Torr , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn enormous attention due to the simple yet effective training mechanism and superior image generation quality. With the ability to generate photo-realistic high-resolution (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ming Liu , Yuxiang Wei , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

When images are statistically described by a generative model we can use this information to develop optimum techniques for various image restoration problems as inpainting, super-resolution, image coloring, generative model inversion, etc.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Kalliopi Basioti , George V. Moustakides

The problem of model collapse has presented new challenges in iterative training of generative models, where such training with synthetic data leads to an overall degradation of performance. This paper looks at the problem from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-19 Soham Bakshi , Sunrit Chakraborty

New advancements for the detection of synthetic images are critical for fighting disinformation, as the capabilities of generative AI models continuously evolve and can lead to hyper-realistic synthetic imagery at unprecedented scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Pantelis Dogoulis , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

Recursive retraining of generative models poses a critical representation challenge: when synthetic outputs are curated based on a fixed reward signal, the model tends to collapse onto a narrow set of outputs that over-optimize that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ali Falahati , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Kate Larson , Lukasz Golab

Large pre-trained generative models are known to occasionally output undesirable samples, which undermines their trustworthiness. The common way to mitigate this is to re-train them differently from scratch using different data or different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Zhifeng Kong , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Although the recent advancement in generative models brings diverse advantages to society, it can also be abused with malicious purposes, such as fraud, defamation, and fake news. To prevent such cases, vigorous research is conducted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yonghyun Jeong , Doyeon Kim , Pyounggeon Kim , Youngmin Ro , Jongwon Choi

While hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are now approved or cleared by the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), many studies have shown inconsistent generalization or latent bias, particularly for underrepresented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Luke W. Sagers , James A. Diao , Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Matthew Groh , Pranav Rajpurkar , Adewole S. Adamson , Veronica Rotemberg , Roxana Daneshjou , Arjun K. Manrai

The study conducted by Shumailov et al. (2024) demonstrates that repeatedly training a generative model on synthetic data leads to model collapse. This finding has generated considerable interest and debate, particularly given that current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ali Borji

In this work we demonstrate that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to generate realistic pervasive changes in remote sensing imagery, even in an unpaired training setting. We investigate some transformation quality metrics…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Christopher X. Ren , Amanda Ziemann , James Theiler , Alice M. S. Durieux

Even though Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown a remarkable ability to generate high-quality images, GANs do not always guarantee the generation of photorealistic images. Occasionally, they generate images that have defective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Hwanil Choi , Wonjoon Chang , Jaesik Choi