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Conditional GANs are widely used in translating an image from one category to another. Meaningful conditions to GANs provide greater flexibility and control over the nature of the target domain synthetic data. Existing conditional GANs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

Generative adversarial networks offer the possibility to generate deceptively real images that are almost indistinguishable from actual photographs. Such systems however rely on the presence of large datasets to realistically replicate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Silvan Mertes , Dominik Schiller , Florian Lingenfelser , Thomas Kiderle , Valentin Kroner , Lama Diab , Elisabeth André

We introduce BiGR, a novel conditional image generation model using compact binary latent codes for generative training, focusing on enhancing both generation and representation capabilities. BiGR is the first conditional generative model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Shaozhe Hao , Xuantong Liu , Xianbiao Qi , Shihao Zhao , Bojia Zi , Rong Xiao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) addresses large language model (LLM) hallucinations by grounding responses in external knowledge, but its effectiveness is compromised by poor-quality retrieved contexts containing irrelevant or noisy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiale Deng , Yanyan Shen , Ziyuan Pei , Youmin Chen , Linpeng Huang

Recent progress with conditional image diffusion models has been stunning, and this holds true whether we are speaking about models conditioned on a text description, a scene layout, or a sketch. Unconditional image diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 William Harvey , Frank Wood

Recent improvements in Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs) have shown their ability to generate higher quality samples as well as to learn good representations for transfer learning. Most of the representation learning methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Rajib Rana , John H. L. Hansen , Björn Schuller

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality samples and enhancing performance across diverse domains through Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, the quality of generated samples is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ao Chen , Lihe Ding , Tianfan Xue

Generative Models are a valuable tool for the controlled creation of high-quality image data. Controlled diffusion models like the ControlNet have allowed the creation of labeled distributions. Such synthetic datasets can augment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Joshua Niemeijer , Jan Ehrhardt , Heinz Handels , Hristina Uzunova

As a kind of generative self-supervised learning methods, generative adversarial nets have been widely studied in the field of anomaly detection. However, the representation learning ability of the generator is limited since it pays too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Xuan Xia , Xizhou Pan , Xing He , Jingfei Zhang , Ning Ding , Lin Ma

Controllable layout generation aims to create plausible visual arrangements of element bounding boxes within a graphic design according to certain optional constraints, such as the type or position of a specific component. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yuxuan Wu , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Mengnan Liu , Gang Hua , Haoxiang Li

Conditional set generation learns a mapping from an input sequence of tokens to a set. Several NLP tasks, such as entity typing and dialogue emotion tagging, are instances of set generation. Seq2Seq models, a popular choice for set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Aman Madaan , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Niket Tandon , Yiming Yang , Antoine Bosselut

Conditional generative models have achieved considerable success in the past few years, but usually require a lot of labeled data. Recently, ClusterGAN combines GAN with an encoder to achieve remarkable clustering performance via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Fei Ding , Feng Luo , Yin Yang

Conditional image generation is effective for diverse tasks including training data synthesis for learning-based computer vision. However, despite the recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs), it is still a challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Yutaro Miyauchi , Yusuke Sugano , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Recent advances in molecular generative models have demonstrated great promise for accelerating scientific discovery, particularly in drug design. However, these models often struggle to generate high-quality molecules, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zian Li , Cai Zhou , Xiyuan Wang , Xingang Peng , Muhan Zhang

The rapid advancement in self-supervised representation learning has highlighted its potential to leverage unlabeled data for learning rich visual representations. However, the existing techniques, particularly those employing different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Sana Ayromlou , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Fereshteh Forghani , Arash Afkanpour

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a promising approach for training deep classification models using labeled and unlabeled datasets. However, existing SSL methods rely on a large unlabeled dataset, which may not always be available in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Shin'ya Yamaguchi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, yet they face inherent limitations such as constrained parametric knowledge and high retraining costs. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) augments the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Leqian Li , Dianxi Shi , Jialu Zhou , Xinyu Wei , Mingyue Yang , Songchang Jin , Shaowu Yang

Semi-supervised learning methods are motivated by the availability of large datasets with unlabeled features in addition to labeled data. Unlabeled data is, however, not guaranteed to improve classification performance and has in fact been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-25 Xiuming Liu , Dave Zachariah , Johan Wågberg , Thomas B. Schön

Multi-label classification is an important yet challenging task in natural language processing. It is more complex than single-label classification in that the labels tend to be correlated. Existing methods tend to ignore the correlations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Pengcheng Yang , Xu Sun , Wei Li , Shuming Ma , Wei Wu , Houfeng Wang

In this paper, we formulate the knowledge distillation (KD) as a conditional generative problem and propose the \textit{Generative Distribution Distillation (GenDD)} framework. A naive \textit{GenDD} baseline encounters two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jiequan Cui , Beier Zhu , Qingshan Xu , Xiaogang Xu , Pengguang Chen , Xiaojuan Qi , Bei Yu , Hanwang Zhang , Richang Hong