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Detecting extreme events in large datasets is a major challenge in climate science research. Current algorithms for extreme event detection are build upon human expertise in defining events based on subjective thresholds of relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Yunjie Liu , Evan Racah , Prabhat , Joaquin Correa , Amir Khosrowshahi , David Lavers , Kenneth Kunkel , Michael Wehner , William Collins

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been used widely to generate large volumes of synthetic data. This data is being utilized for augmenting with real examples in order to train deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Binod Bhattarai , Seungryul Baek , Rumeysa Bodur , Tae-Kyun Kim

Risk management in many environmental settings requires an understanding of the mechanisms that drive extreme events. Useful metrics for quantifying such risk are extreme quantiles of response variables conditioned on predictor variables…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-08 Jordan Richards , Raphaël Huser

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

Imputation of missing data is a task that plays a vital role in a number of engineering and science applications. Often such missing data arise in experimental observations from limitations of sensors or post-processing transformation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ehsan Adeli , Jize Zhang , Alexandros A. Taflanidis

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) was recently introduced in the literature as a novel machine learning method for training generative models. It has many applications in statistics such as nonparametric clustering and nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-26 Sehwan Kim , Qifan Song , Faming Liang

Generative models (GMs) such as Generative Adversary Network (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have thrived these years and achieved high quality results in generating new samples. Especially in Computer Vision, GMs have been used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Honggang Zhou , Yunchun Li , Hailong Yang , Wei Li , Jie Jia

This paper studies how well generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn probability distributions from finite samples. Our main results establish the convergence rates of GANs under a collection of integral probability metrics defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Zhen Li , Shiao Liu , Yang Wang , Yunfei Yang

We construct realistic equity option market simulators based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). We consider recurrent and temporal convolutional architectures, and assess the impact of state compression. Option market simulators are…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-04-21 Magnus Wiese , Lianjun Bai , Ben Wood , Hans Buehler

Insider threats are the cyber attacks from within the trusted entities of an organization. Lack of real-world data and issue of data imbalance leave insider threat analysis an understudied research area. To mitigate the effect of skewed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-09 R G Gayathri , Atul Sajjanhar , Yong Xiang , Xingjun Ma

Extreme weather events stemming from climate change can cause significant damage and disruption to power systems. Failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change and its cascading effects can lead to short and long term issues. The profound…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-22 Rouzbeh Shirvani , Tarannom Parhizkar

In this paper, we present a simple approach to train Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in order to avoid a \textit {mode collapse} issue. Implicit models such as GANs tend to generate better samples compared to explicit models that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

We show that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) may be fruitfully exploited to learn stochastic dynamics, surrogating traditional models while capturing thermal fluctuations. Specifically, we showcase the application to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-30 Daniele Lanzoni , Olivier Pierre-Louis , Roberto Bergamaschini , Francesco Montalenti

Accurate prediction of extreme weather events remains a major challenge for artificial intelligence-based weather prediction systems. While deterministic models such as FuXi, GraphCast, and SFNO have achieved competitive forecast skill…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Rodrigo Almeida , Noelia Otero , Miguel-Ángel Fernández-Torres , Jackie Ma

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have received wide acclaim among the machine learning (ML) community for their ability to generate realistic 2D images. ML is being applied more often to complex problems beyond those of computer…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Dima Tretiak , Arvind T. Mohan , Daniel Livescu

Long-tail and rare event problems become crucial when autonomous driving algorithms are applied in the real world. For the purpose of evaluating systems in challenging settings, we propose a generative framework to create safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Wenhao Ding , Baiming Chen , Minjun Xu , Ding Zhao

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown impressive results in various image synthesis tasks. Vast studies have demonstrated that GANs are more powerful in feature and expression learning compared to other generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Omar De Mitri , Ruyu Wang , Marco F. Huber

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide an algorithmic framework for constructing generative models with several appealing properties: they do not require a likelihood function to be specified, only a generating procedure; they…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Shakir Mohamed , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) and generative adversarial networks (GANs) enjoy an intuitive connection to manifold learning: in training the decoder/generator is optimized to approximate a homeomorphism between the data distribution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Henry Li , Ofir Lindenbaum , Xiuyuan Cheng , Alexander Cloninger

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants exhibit state-of-the-art performance in the class of generative models. To capture higher-dimensional distributions, the common learning procedure requires high computational complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Xingwei Cao , Xuyang Zhao , Qibin Zhao