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Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have generated a lot of excitement. Despite their popularity, they exhibit a number of well-documented issues in practice, which apparently contradict theoretical guarantees. A number of enlightening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Ke Li , Jitendra Malik

Understanding proper distance measures between distributions is at the core of several learning tasks such as generative models, domain adaptation, clustering, etc. In this work, we focus on mixture distributions that arise naturally in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Yogesh Balaji , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

In the recent years Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated significant progress in generating authentic looking data. In this work we introduce our simple method to exploit the advancements in well established image-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Eoin Brophy , Zhengwei Wang , Tomas E. Ward

The recent success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is a result of their ability to generate high quality images from a latent vector space. An important application is the generation of images from a text description, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Lukas Fischer , Thomas Hoch

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of deep generative models which aim to learn a target distribution in an unsupervised fashion. While they were successfully applied to many problems, training a GAN is a notoriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Karol Kurach , Mario Lucic , Xiaohua Zhai , Marcin Michalski , Sylvain Gelly

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are recently highly successful in generative applications involving images and start being applied to time series data. Here we describe EEG-GAN as a framework to generate electroencephalographic (EEG)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-07 Kay Gregor Hartmann , Robin Tibor Schirrmeister , Tonio Ball

We study the problem of quantifying how far an empirical distribution deviates from Gaussianity under the framework of optimal transport. By exploiting the cone geometry of the relative translation invariant quadratic Wasserstein space, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Binshuai Wang , Peng Wei

Generative adversarial network (GAN) is among the most popular deep learning models for learning complex data distributions. However, training a GAN is known to be a challenging task. This is often attributed to the lack of correlation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sahil Sidheekh , Aroof Aimen , Vineet Madan , Narayanan C. Krishnan

Adversarial examples are a hot topic due to their abilities to fool a classifier's prediction. There are two strategies to create such examples, one uses the attacked classifier's gradients, while the other only requires access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jean-Christophe Burnel , Kilian Fatras , Nicolas Courty

Despite the successes in capturing continuous distributions, the application of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to discrete settings, like natural language tasks, is rather restricted. The fundamental reason is the difficulty of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Tong Che , Yanran Li , Ruixiang Zhang , R Devon Hjelm , Wenjie Li , Yangqiu Song , Yoshua Bengio

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistically looking synthetic images with remarkable success, yet their performance seems less impressive when the training set is highly diverse. In order to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Matan Ben-Yosef , Daphna Weinshall

Issued from Optimal Transport, the Wasserstein distance has gained importance in Machine Learning due to its appealing geometrical properties and the increasing availability of efficient approximations. In this work, we consider the problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-21 Guillaume Staerman , Pierre Laforgue , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Florence d'Alché-Buc

In federated learning, participating clients typically possess non-i.i.d. data, posing a significant challenge to generalization to unseen distributions. To address this, we propose a Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization scheme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Tung-Anh Nguyen , Tuan Dung Nguyen , Long Tan Le , Canh T. Dinh , Nguyen H. Tran

We propose a stable method to train Wasserstein generative adversarial networks. In order to enhance stability, we consider two objective functions using the $c$-transform based on Kantorovich duality which arises in the theory of optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Dohyun Kwon , Yeoneung Kim , Guido Montúfar , Insoon Yang

One of the most significant challenges in statistical signal processing and machine learning is how to obtain a generative model that can produce samples of large-scale data distribution, such as images and speeches. Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Pegah Salehi , Abdolah Chalechale , Maryam Taghizadeh

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

In just a few years, the photo-realism of images synthesized by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has gone from somewhat reasonable to almost perfect largely by increasing the complexity of the networks, e.g., adding layers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jeffrey Wen , Fabian Benitez-Quiroz , Qianli Feng , Aleix Martinez

Generative models and in particular Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become very popular and powerful data generation tool. In recent years, major progress has been made in extending this concept into the quantum realm. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Wiktor Jurasz , Christian B. Mendl

We consider the problem of optimizing the discriminator in generative adversarial networks (GANs) subject to higher-order gradient regularization. We show analytically, via the least-squares (LSGAN) and Wasserstein (WGAN) GAN variants, that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Siddarth Asokan , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We provide theoretical convergence guarantees on training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) via SGD. We consider learning a target distribution modeled by a 1-layer Generator network with a non-linear activation function $\phi(\cdot)$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Vasilis Kontonis , Sihan Liu , Christos Tzamos