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Advances in technology have led to the development of methods that can create desired visual multimedia. In particular, image generation using deep learning has been extensively studied across diverse fields. In comparison, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Doyeon Kim , Donggyu Joo , Junmo Kim

The astonishing growth of generative tools in recent years has empowered many exciting applications in text-to-image generation and text-to-video generation. The underlying principle behind these generative tools is the concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Stanley H. Chan

Deep generative models have unlocked another profound realm of human creativity. By capturing and generalizing patterns within data, we have entered the epoch of all-encompassing Artificial Intelligence for General Creativity (AIGC).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hanqun Cao , Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Yilun Xu , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng , Stan Z. Li

The synthesis of product design concepts stands at the crux of early-phase development processes for technical products, traditionally posing an intricate interdisciplinary challenge. The application of deep learning methods, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Phillip Mueller , Lars Mikelsons

Diffusion and flow-based models have become the state of the art for generative AI across a wide range of data modalities, including images, videos, shapes, molecules, music, and more. This tutorial provides a self-contained introduction to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Peter Holderrieth , Ezra Erives

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a hot research topic recently. GANs have been widely studied since 2014, and a large number of algorithms have been proposed. However, there is few comprehensive study explaining the connections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jie Gui , Zhenan Sun , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao , Jieping Ye

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have extended deep learning to complex generation and translation tasks across different data modalities. However, GANs are notoriously difficult to train: Mode collapse and other instabilities in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Santiago Gonzalez , Mohak Kant , Risto Miikkulainen

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a hot topic among researchers and engineers that work with deep learning. It has been a ground-breaking technique which can generate new pieces of content of data in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Parthak Mehta , Sarthak Mishra , Nikhil Chouhan , Neel Pethani , Ishani Saha

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown immense potential in fields such as text and image generation. Only very recently attempts to exploit GANs to statistical-mechanics models have been reported. Here we quantitatively test…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Daniele Lanzoni , Olivier Pierre-Louis , Francesco Montalenti

Generative deep neural networks used in machine learning, like the Variational Auto-Encoders (VAE), and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce new objects each time when asked to do so with the constraint that the new objects remain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-15 Gabriel Turinici

Variational autoencoders (VAE) represent a popular, flexible form of deep generative model that can be stochastically fit to samples from a given random process using an information-theoretic variational bound on the true underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Bin Dai , Yu Wang , John Aston , Gang Hua , David Wipf

Video generation is an interesting problem in computer vision. It is quite popular for data augmentation, special effect in move, AR/VR and so on. With the advances of deep learning, many deep generative models have been proposed to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Tingfung Lau , Sailun Xu , Xinze Wang

This paper presents a systematic survey on recent development of neural text generation models. Specifically, we start from recurrent neural network language models with the traditional maximum likelihood estimation training scheme and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sidi Lu , Yaoming Zhu , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang , Yong Yu

This is a tutorial and survey paper on Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), adversarial autoencoders, and their variants. We start with explaining adversarial learning and the vanilla GAN. Then, we explain the conditional GAN and DCGAN.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Despite the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), mode collapse remains a serious issue during GAN training. To date, little work has focused on understanding and quantifying which modes have been dropped by a model. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu , Jonas Wulff , William Peebles , Hendrik Strobelt , Bolei Zhou , Antonio Torralba

Artificial intelligence (AI) in media has advanced rapidly over the last decade. The introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) improved the quality of photorealistic image generation. Diffusion models later brought a new era of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Redwan Hussain , Mizanur Rahman , Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee

How do diffusion generative models convert pure noise into meaningful images? In a variety of pretrained diffusion models (including conditional latent space models like Stable Diffusion), we observe that the reverse diffusion process that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Binxu Wang , John J. Vastola

In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on underwater image enhancement using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), driven by the need to overcome the challenges posed by underwater environments. Issues such as light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Ashreen Tabassum , Bommakanti Navaneeth , Tenneti Jahnavi , Yenka Akshaya

We present an autoencoder that leverages learned representations to better measure similarities in data space. By combining a variational autoencoder with a generative adversarial network we can use learned feature representations in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen , Søren Kaae Sønderby , Hugo Larochelle , Ole Winther

Digital reconstruction of porous materials has become increasingly critical for applications ranging from geological reservoir characterization to tissue engineering and electrochemical device design. While traditional methods such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ali Sadeghkhani , Brandon Bennett , Masoud Babaei , Arash Rabbani