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Recently, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been successfully scaled to billion-scale large text-to-image datasets. However, training such models entails a high training cost, limiting some applications and research usage. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yuya Kobayashi , Yuhta Takida , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

Implicit generative models have the capability to learn arbitrary complex data distributions. On the downside, training requires telling apart real data from artificially-generated ones using adversarial discriminators, leading to unstable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 José Manuel de Frutos , Pablo M. Olmos , Manuel A. Vázquez , Joaquín Míguez

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated unprecedented success in various image generation tasks. The encouraging results, however, come at the price of a cumbersome training process, during which the generator and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Chengchao Shen , Youtan Yin , Xinchao Wang , Xubin Li , Jie Song , Mingli Song

The performance of generative adversarial networks (GANs) heavily deteriorates given a limited amount of training data. This is mainly because the discriminator is memorizing the exact training set. To combat it, we propose Differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shengyu Zhao , Zhijian Liu , Ji Lin , Jun-Yan Zhu , Song Han

Existing generative adversarial network (GAN) based conditional image generative models typically produce fixed output for the same conditional input, which is unreasonable for highly subjective tasks, such as large-mask image inpainting or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Tianyi Chu , Wei Xing , Jiafu Chen , Zhizhong Wang , Jiakai Sun , Lei Zhao , Haibo Chen , Huaizhong Lin

Multi-domain image-to-image translation with conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate highly photo realistic images with desired target classes, yet these synthetic images have not always been helpful to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Suman Sapkota , Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Tae-Kyun Kim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) rely heavily on large-scale training data for training high-quality image generation models. With limited training data, the GAN discriminator often suffers from severe overfitting which directly leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kaiwen Cui , Yingchen Yu , Fangneng Zhan , Shengcai Liao , Shijian Lu1 , Eric Xing

Knowledge distillation has been widely used to produce portable and efficient neural networks which can be well applied on edge devices for computer vision tasks. However, almost all top-performing knowledge distillation methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu , Huiyu Zhou

We propose Unbalanced GANs, which pre-trains the generator of the generative adversarial network (GAN) using variational autoencoder (VAE). We guarantee the stable training of the generator by preventing the faster convergence of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Hyungrok Ham , Tae Joon Jun , Daeyoung Kim

In recent times, many of the breakthroughs in various vision-related tasks have revolved around improving learning of deep models; these methods have ranged from network architectural improvements such as Residual Networks, to various forms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-15 Yan Zuo , Gil Avraham , Tom Drummond

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been remarkably successful at learning to sample from distributions specified by a given dataset, particularly if the given dataset is reasonably large compared to its dimensionality. However, given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Tiantian Fang , Ruoyu Sun , Alex Schwing

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a powerful approach for generative image modeling. However, GANs are notorious for their training instability, especially on large-scale, complex datasets. While the recent work of BigGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ting-Yun Chang , Chi-Jen Lu

Despite the accomplishments of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in modeling data distributions, training them remains a challenging task. A contributing factor to this difficulty is the non-intuitive nature of the GAN loss curves,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Sahil Sidheekh , Aroof Aimen , Narayanan C. Krishnan

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are widely used for distribution learning, yet their classical formulations remain theoretically fragile, with ill-posed objectives, unstable training dynamics, and limited interpretability. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Angshul Majumdar

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been effective for learning generative models for real-world data. However, existing GANs (GAN and its variants) tend to suffer from training problems such as instability and mode collapse. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Chaoyue Wang , Chang Xu , Xin Yao , Dacheng Tao

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown outstanding performance on a wide range of problems in computer vision, graphics, and machine learning, but often require numerous training data and heavy computational resources. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Sangwoo Mo , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin

In an effort to address the training instabilities of GANs, we introduce a class of dual-objective GANs with different value functions (objectives) for the generator (G) and discriminator (D). In particular, we model each objective using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Monica Welfert , Kyle Otstot , Gowtham R. Kurri , Lalitha Sankar

Conditional generative models aim to learn the underlying joint distribution of data and labels to achieve conditional data generation. Among them, the auxiliary classifier generative adversarial network (AC-GAN) has been widely used, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Liang Hou , Qi Cao , Huawei Shen , Siyuan Pan , Xiaoshuang Li , Xueqi Cheng

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) achieve excellent performance in generative tasks, such as image super-resolution, but their computational requirements make difficult their deployment on resource-constrained devices. While knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nikolaos Kaparinos , Vasileios Mezaris

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) learn an implicit generative model from data samples through a two-player game. In this paper, we study the existence of Nash equilibrium of the game which is consistent as the number of data samples…

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