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We obtain an analytic, interpretable and predictive theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models. Indeed, score-matching diffusion models can generate highly original images that lie far from their training data. However, optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Mason Kamb , Surya Ganguli

Many image-to-image translation problems are ambiguous, as a single input image may correspond to multiple possible outputs. In this work, we aim to model a \emph{distribution} of possible outputs in a conditional generative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang , Deepak Pathak , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros , Oliver Wang , Eli Shechtman

Synthetic data generation is increasingly important due to privacy concerns. While Autoencoder-based approaches have been widely used for this purpose, sampling from their latent spaces can be challenging. Mixture models are currently the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Aymene Mohammed Bouayed , David Naccache

The ability to generate samples of the random effects from their conditional distributions is fundamental for inference in mixed effects models. Random walk Metropolis is widely used to perform such sampling, but this method is known to…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-29 Belhal Karimi , Marc Lavielle , Eric Moulines

Bayesian inference on structured models typically relies on the ability to infer posterior distributions of underlying hidden variables. However, inference in implicit models or complex posterior distributions is hard. A popular tool for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-16 Theofanis Karaletsos

Recent advancements in image generation have made significant progress, yet existing models present limitations in perceiving and generating an arbitrary number of interrelated images within a broad context. This limitation becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Ying Shen , Yizhe Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Lifu Huang , Joshua M. Susskind , Jiatao Gu

Generative retrieval seeks to replace traditional search index data structures with a single large-scale neural network, offering the potential for improved efficiency and seamless integration with generative large language models. As an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shiguang Wu , Zhaochun Ren , Xin Xin , Jiyuan Yang , Mengqi Zhang , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Pengjie Ren

Deep convolution neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated advanced performance on single-label image classification, and various progress also have been made to apply CNN methods on multi-label image classification, which requires to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Junjie Zhang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Jian Zhang , Jianfeng Lu

We propose a simple algorithm to train stochastic neural networks to draw samples from given target distributions for probabilistic inference. Our method is based on iteratively adjusting the neural network parameters so that the output…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-29 Dilin Wang , Qiang Liu

In this paper, we treat the image generation task using an autoencoder, a representative latent model. Unlike many studies regularizing the latent variable's distribution by assuming a manually specified prior, we approach the image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jaeyoung Yoo , Hojun Lee , Nojun Kwak

Designing realistic digital humans is extremely complex. Most data-driven generative models used to simplify the creation of their underlying geometric shape do not offer control over the generation of local shape attributes. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Simone Foti , Bongjin Koo , Danail Stoyanov , Matthew J. Clarkson

We present a simple method for assessing the quality of generated images in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The method can be applied in any kind of GAN without interfering with the learning procedure or affecting the learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

Modeling the distribution of natural images is a landmark problem in unsupervised learning. This task requires an image model that is at once expressive, tractable and scalable. We present a deep neural network that sequentially predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Aaron van den Oord , Nal Kalchbrenner , Koray Kavukcuoglu

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

The group membership prediction (GMP) problem involves predicting whether or not a collection of instances share a certain semantic property. For instance, in kinship verification given a collection of images, the goal is to predict whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Ziming Zhang , Yuting Chen , Venkatesh Saligrama

The Universality Hypothesis in large language models (LLMs) claims that different models converge towards similar concept representations in their latent spaces. Providing evidence for this hypothesis would enable researchers to exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Michael Lan , Philip Torr , Austin Meek , Ashkan Khakzar , David Krueger , Fazl Barez

In data-driven drug discovery, designing molecular descriptors is a very important task. Deep generative models such as variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer a potential solution by designing descriptors as probabilistic latent vectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Daiki Koge , Naoaki Ono , Shigehiko Kanaya

We describe a method to train a generative model with latent factors that are (approximately) independent and localized. This means that perturbing the latent variables affects only local regions of the synthesized image, corresponding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yanchao Yang , Yutong Chen , Stefano Soatto

The autoregressive world model exhibits robust generalization capabilities in vectorized scene understanding but encounters difficulties in deriving actions due to insufficient uncertainty modeling and self-delusion. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Lingyu Xiao , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Sen Yang , Xiaofan Li , Xiaoqing Ye , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

Generative networks have shown remarkable success in learning complex data distributions, particularly in generating high-dimensional data from lower-dimensional inputs. While this capability is well-documented empirically, its theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Kevin Wang , Hongqian Niu , Yixin Wang , Didong Li