Bayesian CycleGAN improves cycle-consistent GANs by stabilizing training and diversifying generated images.
problem Challenges in stabilizing training of cycle-consistent GANs leading to mode collapse.
method Proposes a Bayesian approach to stabilize training and diversify generated images.
result Improves per-pixel accuracy by 15% on Cityscapes semantic segmentation task and 20% on Monet2Photo style transfer.
This work proposes a new method to match distributions across different spaces using cycle-consistent maps.
problem Matching distributions across different spaces with consistent bidirectional maps.
method A novel unbalanced Monge optimal transport formulation for matching distributions on different spaces, employing cycle-consistent maps.
result The proposed discrepancy captures the cycle-consistent GAN framework and provides theoretical support.
ALAD uses GANs to detect anomalies in complex data.
problem Effective anomaly detection for complex, high-dimensional data.
method Adversarially learned features derived from bi-directional GANs.
result Significantly improved anomaly detection performance.
Paper applies GANs to symbolic music genre transfer.
problem Symbolic music genre transfer using GANs.
method CycleGAN architecture with additional discriminators to preserve structure.
result Fidelity of transformed music improved with additional discriminators.
Although voice conversion (VC) algorithms have achieved remarkable success along with the development of machine learning, superior performance is still difficult to achieve when using nonparallel data. In this paper, we propose using a cycle-consistent adversarial network (CycleGAN) for nonparallel data-based VC train…
Proposes DC3-GAN for diverse unsupervised conditional generation.
problem Low diversity in unsupervised conditional generation.
method Integrates encoder-generator pair with generator-encoder pair to enhance diversity.
result Improves clustering performance and disentanglement of latent variables.
We present a framework for translating unlabeled images from one domain into analog images in another domain. We employ a progressively growing skip-connected encoder-generator structure and train it with a GAN loss for realistic output, a cycle consistency loss for maintaining same-domain translation identity, and a s…
New CycleGAN uses invertible generator for faster, less resource-intensive CT denoising.
problem Efficient unsupervised CT denoising without paired data.
method Single generator with wavelet residual domain, no discriminators, cycle consistency via invertible generator.
result Significantly improved denoising performance with faster training and less parameters.
Proposes a model to improve multi-domain recommender systems.
problem Challenges in transferring knowledge between domains in recommender systems.
method Generative adversarial networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Cycle-Consistency (CC) for weight-sharing.
result Improves performance of multi-domain recommender systems by capturing both similarities and differences among domains.
Mic2Mic reduces microphone variability for speech systems.
problem Microphone variability impacts speech system accuracy.
method Cycle-consistent GANs for learning microphone variability reduction.
result Mic2Mic recovers 66% to 89% of lost accuracy due to microphone variability.
Adversarial fog tests autonomous navigation models.
problem Neural networks are fooled by adversarial perturbations, but fog naturally creates similar perturbations.
method Introduced a new type of adversarial perturbation using generative models and Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks.
result Generated adversarial fog images help test autonomous navigation models.
Paper proposes a novel unsupervised feature learning approach for environmental sound classification.
problem Classifying environmental sounds without labeled data.
method Cycle-consistent GAN for high-level data augmentation, unsupervised feature learning, codebook construction.
result Improves classification rate by 3.51% to 14.34% compared to state-of-the-art classifiers.
Robust image translation model for noisy labels.
problem Learning mappings among multiple domains with noisy labeled data.
method Proposes a novel loss function and techniques to handle noisy labeled data.
result Demonstrates robustness in various settings including synthetic and real-world noise.
Generative Adversarial Networks align manifold geometries instead of densities.
problem Aligning data manifolds between domains.
method Introduces MGM GAN with importance sampling and geometry penalty.
result Advantages of modeling manifold geometry over density.
The paper analyzes CycleGAN's error components for unpaired data generation.
problem Analyzing approximation and estimation errors in CycleGAN for unpaired data.
method Decomposes risk into approximation and estimation errors, analyzing each separately and considering their trade-offs.
result Theoretical insights into CycleGAN's performance through error analysis.
Generative model creates meal images from ingredient descriptions.
problem Synthesize photo-realistic meal images from ingredient descriptions.
method Attention-based ingredients-image association model, cycle-consistent constraint.
result Model generates meal images corresponding to ingredient descriptions.
Deep learning improves 3D microscopy resolution without matched target images.
problem Anisotropic resolution in volumetric fluorescence microscopy.
method Cycle-consistent generative adversarial network trained on unpaired 2D images.
result Enhanced axial resolution and restored details between imaging planes.
Curriculum learning strategies improve GAN training speed and quality.
problem Training GANs is notoriously difficult and time-consuming.
method Proposes three curriculum learning strategies based on difficulty scores.
result Curriculum learning strategies lead to faster convergence and superior results.
Generalizes adversarial learning for better latent variable inference in GANs.
problem Improving latent variable inference in GANs for diverse applications.
method Adversarial learning with multiple feedback layers, self-supervision, and auxiliary tasks.
result Achieves global optimum matching multiple joint distributions.
Novel unsupervised method for fast 3D image registration using cycle-consistent CNN.
problem Medical image registration for cancer diagnosis.
method Unsupervised deep learning using cycle-consistent CNN for deformable registration.
result Very precise 3D image registration within a few seconds, improving cancer size estimation.
CycleMorph improves image registration by preserving topology with cycle consistency.
problem Preserving original topology during deformation in image registration.
method Cycle-consistent deformable image registration approach.
result Effective and accurate registration on diverse image pairs within seconds.
Improved TTS style transfer across disjoint datasets with adversarial cycle consistency.
problem Suboptimal TTS style transfer on disjoint datasets with underrepresented styles.
method Adversarial cycle consistency training with paired and unpaired triplets.
result 78% improvement in style transfer with minimal reduction in fidelity and naturalness.
This paper uses LLMs and cycle consistency for better machine translation evaluation.
problem Evaluating translation quality and LLM capabilities without ground truth.
method Generate translation candidates, back-translate, and evaluate cycle consistency.
result Larger LLMs or more inference passes improve cycle consistency.
New method uses cycle consistency to enforce invariance in latent space.
problem Learning meaningful and independent factors of variation in datasets.
method Two separate latent subspaces, cycle consistency constraints, deep information bottleneck.
result Identifies more meaningful factors leading to sparser and interpretable models.
Text-to-Image translation has been an active area of research in the recent past. The ability for a network to learn the meaning of a sentence and generate an accurate image that depicts the sentence shows ability of the model to think more like humans. Popular methods on text to image translation make use of Generativ…
Improved unsupervised word translation using adversarial autoencoder with cycle consistency and input reconstruction.
problem Challenging language pairs and lack of parallel data for unsupervised word translation.
method Adversarial autoencoder with cycle consistency and input reconstruction regularization.
result More stable and better performance than recent approaches.
New CNN method improves deconvolution microscopy without PSF measurement.
problem Computational expense and blind estimation in conventional deconvolution microscopy.
method Cycle consistent CNN with explicit PSF modeling layers for blind deconvolution.
result Algorithm robustness and efficacy confirmed through experimental results.
End-to-end algorithm for W-2 distance using neural networks.
problem Training optimal transport mappings for W-2 distance.
method Input convex neural networks and cycle-consistency regularization.
result Algorithm scales well to high dimensions without bias.
Aims to make neural networks robust to small, imperceptible perturbations.
problem Neural networks can be fooled by small, imperceptible changes.
method Proposes a Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) framework to learn robust classifiers.
result Our method outperforms adversarial training in robustness.
TadGAN detects anomalies in time series data using GANs and LSTM.
problem Challenges in detecting anomalies in time series data, especially without labeled data.
method TadGAN uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks to capture temporal correlations and compute anomaly scores.
result TadGAN outperforms 8 baseline methods in most cases, achieving the highest averaged F1 score.
Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in screening, diagnosis, and image-guided therapy for both clinical and research purposes. Since CT involves ionizing radiation, an overarching thrust of related technical research is development of novel methods enabling ultrahigh quality imaging with fine structural details whi…
C4Synth generates images from multiple captions to improve image quality.
problem Generating images from a single caption is limited; multiple captions are needed.
method Two deep generative models that ensure 'Cross-Caption Cycle Consistency'.
result Quantitative and qualitative validation on Caltech-UCSD Birds and Oxford-102 Flowers datasets.
A new method improves robustness in image translation by modeling uncertainty.
problem Performance degradation in image translation models due to lack of robustness to outliers and uncertainty.
method UGAC method based on Uncertainty-aware Generalized Adaptive Cycle Consistency, modeling per-pixel residual with generalized Gaussian distribution.
result Our method exhibits stronger robustness towards unseen perturbations in test data.
New method solves group synchronization with cycle-edge message passing.
problem Solving group synchronization with adversarial or uniform corruption and small noise.
method Cycle-edge message passing procedure using cycle consistency information.
result Exact recovery and linear convergence guarantees under adversarial corruption.
WaveCycleGAN converts synthetic speech to natural speech using cycle-consistent adversarial networks.
problem Over-smoothing effect in synthetic speech, leading to quality degradation.
method Cycle-consistent adversarial networks for waveform-level modification.
result Improves naturalness of generated speech sounds.
Proposes batch-weight method to correct mode imbalance in domain adaptation.
problem Mode imbalance between source and target distributions affects unsupervised domain transfer.
method Proposes batch-weight method to re-weight training samples.
result Effective in several image-to-image translation tasks.
RCGAN improves anomaly detection by better recognizing anomalous samples.
problem Previous methods fail to correctly detect anomalous data.
method RCGAN uses adversarial training with a new loss function and penalty distribution.
result RCGAN outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various datasets.
In this work we study permutation synchronisation for the challenging case of partial permutations, which plays an important role for the problem of matching multiple objects (e.g. images or shapes). The term synchronisation refers to the property that the set of pairwise matchings is cycle-consistent, i.e. in the full…
Generative model boosts bone lesion classification with augmented data.
problem Class imbalance and limited training data for bone lesion classification.
method Cycle-consistent GAN for image patch translation across bones.
result Generative augmentation improves classifier performance on held-out test set.
AlignFlow uses normalizing flows to model multiple domains efficiently.
problem Efficiently modeling data from multiple domains.
method Generative modeling framework using normalizing flows for flexibility and exact cycle consistency.
result AlignFlow guarantees exact cycle consistency and outperforms baselines.
Proposes a new method to improve target annotation in ATR.
problem Challenges in annotating automatic target recognition due to lack of labeled data.
method Hybrid contrastive learning and cycle-consistency-based transductive transfer learning (C3TTL) framework.
result Significantly lower Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) score and improved performance in annotating civilian and military vehicles, as well as ship targets.
We propose a parallel-data-free voice-conversion (VC) method that can learn a mapping from source to target speech without relying on parallel data. The proposed method is general purpose, high quality, and parallel-data free and works without any extra data, modules, or alignment procedure. It also avoids over-smoothi…
Scalable algorithm for computing Wasserstein-2 barycenters without bias.
problem Computing Wasserstein-2 barycenters efficiently and accurately.
method Input convex neural networks and cycle-consistency regularization.
result Our approach avoids introducing bias and does not require minimax optimization.
We formalize the problem of learning interdomain correspondences in the absence of paired data as Bayesian inference in a latent variable model (LVM), where one seeks the underlying hidden representations of entities from one domain as entities from the other domain. First, we introduce implicit latent variable models,…
Proposes a method to align and differentiate feature clusters for unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Difficulty in obtaining labeled data for domain adaptation.
method Label propagation and cycle consistency to align feature clusters.
result Successfully formed aligned and discriminative clusters for better domain adaptation.
Generative model simulates jet radiation patterns with high accuracy.
problem Simulating jet radiation patterns accurately and efficiently.
method Generative adversarial network with cycle-consistent architecture.
result Model retrieves jet radiation patterns within a few percent accuracy.
Novel method solves group synchronization with robust corruption tolerance.
problem Group synchronization with high corruption tolerance.
method Quadratic programming formulation exploiting cycle consistency.
result Global minimum recovers corruption levels under mild conditions.
Method maps imperfect simulations to observed stellar spectra using unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Mapping from large sets of imperfect simulations and observational data.
method Adversarial autoencoders, cycle-consistency constraint, and generative surrogate physics emulator network.
result Reconstructed spectra quality and discovery of new spectral features.