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As the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on natural images quickly propels them into various real-life applications across different domains, it becomes more and more important to clearly understand their limitations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Ahmed Elgammal

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful framework for learning to draw samples from complex distributions. However, GANs are also notoriously difficult to train, with mode collapse and oscillations a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-28 Kevin J Liang , Chunyuan Li , Guoyin Wang , Lawrence Carin

A longstanding problem in machine learning is to find unsupervised methods that can learn the statistical structure of high dimensional signals. In recent years, GANs have gained much attention as a possible solution to the problem, and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Eitan Richardson , Yair Weiss

With great progress in the development of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), in recent years, the quest for insights in understanding and manipulating the latent space of GAN has gained more and more attention due to its wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Toan Pham Van , Tam Minh Nguyen , Ngoc N. Tran , Hoai Viet Nguyen , Linh Bao Doan , Huy Quang Dao , Thanh Ta Minh

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a dominant class of generative models. In recent years, GAN variants have yielded especially impressive results in the synthesis of a variety of forms of data. Examples include compelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Joseph Suarez

Transferring the knowledge of pretrained networks to new domains by means of finetuning is a widely used practice for applications based on discriminative models. To the best of our knowledge this practice has not been studied within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yaxing Wang , Chenshen Wu , Luis Herranz , Joost van de Weijer , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Bogdan Raducanu

Differentiable rendering has paved the way to training neural networks to perform "inverse graphics" tasks such as predicting 3D geometry from monocular photographs. To train high performing models, most of the current approaches rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuxuan Zhang , Wenzheng Chen , Huan Ling , Jun Gao , Yinan Zhang , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Despite the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), mode collapse remains a serious issue during GAN training. To date, little work has focused on understanding and quantifying which modes have been dropped by a model. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu , Jonas Wulff , William Peebles , Hendrik Strobelt , Bolei Zhou , Antonio Torralba

Unsupervised learning of anomaly detection in high-dimensional data, such as images, is a challenging problem recently subject to intense research. Through careful modelling of the data distribution of normal samples, it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Amanda Berg , Jörgen Ahlberg , Michael Felsberg

Though generative adversarial networks (GANs) areprominent models to generate realistic and crisp images,they often encounter the mode collapse problems and arehard to train, which comes from approximating the intrinsicdiscontinuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Dongsheng An , Yang Guo , Min Zhang , Xin Qi , Na Lei , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

Neural samplers such as variational autoencoders (VAEs) or generative adversarial networks (GANs) approximate distributions by transforming samples from a simple random source---the latent space---to samples from a more complex distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-09 Nutan Chen , Alexej Klushyn , Richard Kurle , Xueyan Jiang , Justin Bayer , Patrick van der Smagt

Generative models, especially Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), have received significant attention recently. However, it has been observed that in terms of some attributes, e.g. the number of simple geometric primitives in an image,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jinchen Xuan , Yunchang Yang , Ze Yang , Di He , Liwei Wang

Unsupervised learning of generative models has seen tremendous progress over recent years, in particular due to generative adversarial networks (GANs), variational autoencoders, and flow-based models. GANs have dramatically improved sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Thomas Lucas , Konstantin Shmelkov , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid , Jakob Verbeek

The increasing realism of generated images has raised significant concerns about their potential misuse, necessitating robust detection methods. Current approaches mainly rely on training binary classifiers, which depend heavily on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yonggang Zhang , Jun Nie , Xinmei Tian , Mingming Gong , Kun Zhang , Bo Han

While GANs have shown success in realistic image generation, the idea of using GANs for other tasks unrelated to synthesis is underexplored. Do GANs learn meaningful structural parts of objects during their attempt to reproduce those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Nontawat Tritrong , Pitchaporn Rewatbowornwong , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) typically learn a distribution of images in a large image dataset, and are then able to generate new images from this distribution. However, each natural image has its own internal statistics, captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Assaf Shocher , Shai Bagon , Phillip Isola , Michal Irani

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn a deep generative model that is able to synthesise novel, high-dimensional data samples. New data samples are synthesised by passing latent samples, drawn from a chosen prior distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Antonia Creswell , Anil A Bharath

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are among the most successful models for learning high-complexity, real-world distributions. However, in theory, due to the highly non-convex, non-concave landscape of the minmax training objective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li

Existing models for unsupervised image translation with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can learn the mapping from the source domain to the target domain using a cycle-consistency loss. However, these methods always adopt a symmetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hao Tang , Nicu Sebe

Generative models, such as GANs, learn an explicit low-dimensional representation of a particular class of images, and so they may be used as natural image priors for solving inverse problems such as image restoration and compressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mara Daniels , Paul Hand , Reinhard Heckel