English
Related papers

Related papers: Revisiting GAN with Bayes-Optimal Discrimination

200 papers

Training generative adversarial networks is unstable in high-dimensions as the true data distribution tends to be concentrated in a small fraction of the ambient space. The discriminator is then quickly able to classify nearly all generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Behnam Neyshabur , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Ayan Chakrabarti

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can implicitly learn rich distributions over images, audio, and data which are hard to model with an explicit likelihood. We present a practical Bayesian formulation for unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Yunus Saatchi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

We train a generator by maximum likelihood and we also train the same generator architecture by Wasserstein GAN. We then compare the generated samples, exact log-probability densities and approximate Wasserstein distances. We show that an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Ivo Danihelka , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Benigno Uria , Daan Wierstra , Peter Dayan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been promising in the field of image generation, however, they have been hard to train for language generation. GANs were originally designed to output differentiable values, so discrete language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Mehrad Moradshahi , Utkarsh Contractor

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have received a tremendous amount of attention in the past few years, and have inspired applications addressing a wide range of problems. Despite its great potential, GANs are difficult to train.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Zhimin Chen , Yuguang Tong

Generative adversarial network (GAN) is a minimax game between a generator mimicking the true model and a discriminator distinguishing the samples produced by the generator from the real training samples. Given an unconstrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Farzan Farnia , David Tse

The conventional understanding of adversarial training in generative adversarial networks (GANs) is that the discriminator is trained to estimate a divergence, and the generator learns to minimize this divergence. We argue that despite the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-09 Mingxuan Yi , Zhanxing Zhu , Song Liu

We present Optimal Transport GAN (OT-GAN), a variant of generative adversarial nets minimizing a new metric measuring the distance between the generator distribution and the data distribution. This metric, which we call mini-batch energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Tim Salimans , Han Zhang , Alec Radford , Dimitris Metaxas

In many domains of computer vision, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved great success, among which the family of Wasserstein GANs (WGANs) is considered to be state-of-the-art due to the theoretical contributions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Jiqing Wu , Zhiwu Huang , Janine Thoma , Dinesh Acharya , Luc Van Gool

We study two important concepts in adversarial deep learning---adversarial training and generative adversarial network (GAN). Adversarial training is the technique used to improve the robustness of discriminator by combining adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a widely used method for data-driven optimization that generally relies on zeroth-order data of objective function to construct probabilistic surrogate models. These surrogates guide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Georgios Makrygiorgos , Joshua Hang Sai Ip , Ali Mesbah

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made great progress in synthesizing realistic images in recent years. However, they are often trained on image datasets with either too few samples or too many classes belonging to different data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Shichang Tang

This paper proposes a new theoretical lens to view Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (WGANs). To minimize the Wasserstein-1 distance between the true data distribution and our estimate of it, we derive a distribution-dependent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-05 Zachariah Malik , Yu-Jui Huang

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

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have drawn a lot of attentions for learning the underlying distribution of data in various applications. Despite their wide applicability, training GANs is notoriously difficult. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Babak Barazandeh , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maziar Sanjabi

Generative modelling is often cast as minimizing a similarity measure between a data distribution and a model distribution. Recently, a popular choice for the similarity measure has been the Wasserstein metric, which can be expressed in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Anton Mallasto , Guido Montúfar , Augusto Gerolin

A popular heuristic for improved performance in Generative adversarial networks (GANs) is to use some form of gradient penalty on the discriminator. This gradient penalty was originally motivated by a Wasserstein distance formulation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Ioannis Mitliagkas

A large-scale deep model pre-trained on massive labeled or unlabeled data transfers well to downstream tasks. Linear evaluation freezes parameters in the pre-trained model and trains a linear classifier separately, which is efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Chenyu Zheng , Guoqiang Wu , Fan Bao , Yue Cao , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

In the context of supervised learning, meta learning uses features, metadata and other information to learn about the difficulty, behavior, or composition of the problem. Using this knowledge can be useful to contextualize classifier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh , Brandon Oselio , Alfred O. Hero

In this paper, we study the generative models of sequential discrete data. To tackle the exposure bias problem inherent in maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), generative adversarial networks (GANs) are introduced to penalize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Sidi Lu , Lantao Yu , Siyuan Feng , Yaoming Zhu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu