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The consensus problem -- achieving agreement among a network of agents -- is a central theme in both theory and applications. Recently, this problem has been extended from Euclidean spaces to the space of probability measures, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Pilgyu Jung , Yoon Mo Jung

Computing optimal transport maps between high-dimensional and continuous distributions is a challenging problem in optimal transport (OT). Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are powerful generative models which have been successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Jacob Leygonie , Jennifer She , Amjad Almahairi , Sai Rajeswar , Aaron Courville

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the greatest advances in AI in recent years. With their ability to directly learn the probability distribution of data, and then sample synthetic realistic data. Many applications have…

Generating images from natural language is one of the primary applications of recent conditional generative models. Besides testing our ability to model conditional, highly dimensional distributions, text to image synthesis has many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Cristian Bodnar

The generative adversarial network (GAN) is an important model developed for high-dimensional distribution learning in recent years. However, there is a pressing need for a comprehensive method to understand its error convergence rate. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-25 Mahmud Hasan , Hailin Sang

Learning algorithms for implicit generative models can optimize a variety of criteria that measure how the data distribution differs from the implicit model distribution, including the Wasserstein distance, the Energy distance, and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-23 Leon Bottou , Martin Arjovsky , David Lopez-Paz , Maxime Oquab

This paper describes a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) to understand the detailed 3D shape of objects. While GANs have been used in this domain previously, they are notoriously hard to train, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Edward Smith , David Meger

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are successful deep generative models. GANs are based on a two-player minimax game. However, the objective function derived in the original motivation is changed to obtain stronger gradients when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-10 Masatoshi Uehara , Issei Sato , Masahiro Suzuki , Kotaro Nakayama , Yutaka Matsuo

Score-based Generative Models (SGMs) approximate a data distribution by perturbing it with Gaussian noise and subsequently denoising it via a learned reverse diffusion process. These models excel at modeling complex data distributions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Stefano Bruno , Sotirios Sabanis

Standard Distributional Synthetic Controls (DSC) estimate counterfactual distributions by minimizing the Euclidean $L_2$ distance between quantile functions. We demonstrate that this geometric reliance renders estimators fragile: they lack…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-27 Xinran Liu

Image inpainting is a restoration method that reconstructs missing image parts. However, a carefully selected mask of known pixels that yield a high quality inpainting can also act as a sparse image representation. This challenging spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Pascal Peter

This paper considers the problem of regression over distributions, which is becoming increasingly important in machine learning. Existing approaches often ignore the geometry of the probability space or are computationally expensive. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Maksim Maslov , Alexander Kugaevskikh , Matthew Ivanov

Generative networks have experienced great empirical successes in distribution learning. Many existing experiments have demonstrated that generative networks can generate high-dimensional complex data from a low-dimensional easy-to-sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-28 Biraj Dahal , Alex Havrilla , Minshuo Chen , Tuo Zhao , Wenjing Liao

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely applied in different scenarios thanks to the development of deep neural networks. The original GAN was proposed based on the non-parametric assumption of the infinite capacity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Ziqiang Li , Muhammad Usman , Rentuo Tao , Pengfei Xia , Chaoyue Wang , Huanhuan Chen , Bin Li

We study in this paper the rate of convergence for learning densities under the Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) framework, borrowing insights from nonparametric statistics. We introduce an improved GAN estimator that achieves a faster…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-20 Tengyuan Liang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce high-quality images but are challenging to train. They need careful regularization, vast amounts of compute, and expensive hyper-parameter sweeps. We make significant headway on these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Axel Sauer , Kashyap Chitta , Jens Müller , Andreas Geiger

Non-saturating generative adversarial network (GAN) training is widely used and has continued to obtain groundbreaking results. However so far this approach has lacked strong theoretical justification, in contrast to alternatives such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Matt Shannon , Ben Poole , Soroosh Mariooryad , Tom Bagby , Eric Battenberg , David Kao , Daisy Stanton , RJ Skerry-Ryan

For the integration of renewable energy sources, power grid operators need realistic information about the effects of energy production and consumption to assess grid stability. Recently, research in scenario planning benefits from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jens Schreiber , Maik Jessulat , Bernhard Sick

Anomaly detection in time-series data is a critical challenge with significant implications for network security. Recent quantum machine learning approaches, such as quantum kernel methods and variational quantum circuits, have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Wajdi Hammami , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Jean-Frederic Laprade , Ola Ahmad , Shengrui Wang

Despite the remarkable empirical success of score-based diffusion models, their statistical guarantees remain underdeveloped. Existing analyses often provide pessimistic convergence rates that do not reflect the intrinsic low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-24 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Quentin Berthet , Peter L. Bartlett