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This paper introduces a novel generative encoder (GE) model for generative imaging and image processing with applications in compressed sensing and imaging, image compression, denoising, inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution. The GE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Lin Chen , Haizhao Yang

Quantum machine learning is expected to be one of the first practical applications of near-term quantum devices. Pioneer theoretical works suggest that quantum generative adversarial networks (GANs) may exhibit a potential exponential…

As a general-purpose generative model architecture, VAE has been widely used in the field of image and natural language processing. VAE maps high dimensional sample data into continuous latent variables with unsupervised learning. Sampling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 Yao Li

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) present state-of-the-art results in the generation of samples following the distribution of the input dataset. However, GANs are difficult to train, and several aspects of the model should be previously…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Victor Costa , Nuno Lourenço , João Correia , Penousal Machado

In this work, we introduce the Quantum Generative Adversarial Autoencoder (QGAA), a quantum model for generation of quantum data. The QGAA consists of two components: (a) Quantum Autoencoder (QAE) to compress quantum states, and (b) Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Naipunnya Raj , Rajiv Sangle , Avinash Singh , Krishna Kumar Sabapathy

Classical generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been applied to generate adversarial network traffic capable of attacking intrusion detection systems, but they suffer from shortcomings such as the need for large amounts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Prateek Paudel , Nitin Jha , Abhishek Parakh , Mahadevan Subramaniam

As a widely recognized approach to deep generative modeling, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) still face challenges with the quality of generated images, often presenting noticeable blurriness. This issue stems from the unrealistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We present variational generative adversarial networks, a general learning framework that combines a variational auto-encoder with a generative adversarial network, for synthesizing images in fine-grained categories, such as faces of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua

Classical machine learning often struggles with complex, high-dimensional data. Quantum machine learning offers a potential solution, promising more efficient processing. The quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN), a hybrid algorithm,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Hinako Asaoka , Kazue Kudo

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffer from unpredictable mode-collapsing during training. We study the issue of mode collapse of Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Network (BEGAN), which is one of the state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Chia-Che Chang , Chieh Hubert Lin , Che-Rung Lee , Da-Cheng Juan , Wei Wei , Hwann-Tzong Chen

The advancement of diverse generative deep learning models and their variants has furnished substantial insights for investigating quantum many-body problems. In this work, we design two models based on the foundational architecture of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Yanyang Wang , Feng Gao , Kui Tuo , Wei Li

Class imbalance occurs in many real-world applications, including image classification, where the number of images in each class differs significantly. With imbalanced data, the generative adversarial networks (GANs) leans to majority class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Yuchong Yao , Xiaohui Wangr , Yuanbang Ma , Han Fang , Jiaying Wei , Liyuan Chen , Ali Anaissi , Ali Braytee

Quantum computing may offer new approaches for advancing machine learning, including in complex tasks such as anomaly detection in network traffic. In this paper, we introduce a quantum generative adversarial network (QGAN) architecture for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wajdi Hammami , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Shengrui Wang

The field of neural generative models is dominated by the highly successful Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) despite their challenges, such as training instability and mode collapse. Auto-Encoders (AE) with regularized latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Sankalan Pal Chowdhury , Aravind Jayendran , Parag Singla , Himanshu Asnani , Prathosh AP

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are capable of producing high quality image samples. However, unlike variational autoencoders (VAEs), GANs lack encoders that provide the inverse mapping for the generators, i.e., encode images back to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-20 Paul K. Rubenstein , Yunpeng Li , Dominik Roblek

Machine learning can be used as a systematic method to non-algorithmically program quantum computers. Quantum machine learning enables us to perform computations without breaking down an algorithm into its gate building blocks, eliminating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 James E. Steck , Elizabeth C. Behrman

Class-conditioning offers a direct means to control a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based on a discrete input variable. While necessary in many applications, the additional information provided by the class labels could even be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mohamad Shahbazi , Martin Danelljan , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Since the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAE), the literature on generative modelling has witnessed an overwhelming resurgence. The impressive, yet elusive empirical performance of GANs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-29 Hisham Husain , Richard Nock , Robert C. Williamson

With the increasingly widespread deployment of generative models, there is a mounting need for a deeper understanding of their behaviors and limitations. In this paper, we expose the limitations of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-12 Mihaela Rosca , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Shakir Mohamed

To address the challenges in learning deep generative models (e.g.,the blurriness of variational auto-encoder and the instability of training generative adversarial networks, we propose a novel deep generative model, named…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Shunkang Zhang , Yuan Gao , Yuling Jiao , Jin Liu , Yang Wang , Can Yang