Generative models predict page quality without training, useful for low-resource settings.
problem Detecting low-quality content in web articles.
method Human evaluation and analysis of 500 million web articles.
result Generative models can predict page quality without training, useful for low-resource settings.
Paper explores how text generation quality and diversity metrics relate to distribution fitting.
problem Unclear relation between text generation quality and diversity metrics and distribution fitting.
method Theoretical approach to prove a linear combination of quality and diversity metrics can be a divergence metric.
result CR/NRR proposed as a better substitute for BLEU/Self-BLEU metrics.
Framework evaluates quality of synthetic data generated with differential privacy.
problem Ensuring synthetic data retains statistical quality after applying differential privacy.
method Developed a framework to evaluate synthetic data quality from a practical researcher's viewpoint.
result Synthetic data can be evaluated against training data or underlying populations, and for specific tasks like inference or prediction.
PaDGAN generates diverse, high-quality designs with improved performance.
problem Lack of diversity and performance improvement in generated designs.
method Integrates Determinantal Point Processes for diversity and quality, using GAN framework.
result PaDGAN generates higher quality designs with better diversity and without mode collapse.
Improves sample quality of generative models using energy-based methods.
problem Low sample quality in generative models.
method Constructs an energy function on latent space, trains an energy-based model, and generates improved samples.
result Significant improvement in sample quality with minimal computational overhead.
Protein structure prediction has been a grand challenge problem in the structure biology over the last few decades. Protein quality assessment plays a very important role in protein structure prediction. In the paper, we propose a new protein quality assessment method which can predict both local and global quality of …
How can we measure whether a natural language generation system produces both high quality and diverse outputs? Human evaluation captures quality but not diversity, as it does not catch models that simply plagiarize from the training set. On the other hand, statistical evaluation (i.e., perplexity) captures diversity b…
We investigate properties that intuitively ought to be satisfied by graph clustering quality functions, that is, functions that assign a score to a clustering of a graph. Graph clustering, also known as network community detection, is often performed by optimizing such a function. Two axioms tailored for graph clusteri…
The style-based GAN architecture (StyleGAN) yields state-of-the-art results in data-driven unconditional generative image modeling. We expose and analyze several of its characteristic artifacts, and propose changes in both model architecture and training methods to address them. In particular, we redesign the generator…
A method merges two pretrained diffusion experts to improve image quality and likelihood.
problem Trade-off between image quality and data likelihood in diffusion models.
method Combining two pretrained diffusion experts by switching between them along the denoising trajectory.
result The merged model consistently matches or outperforms its base components, improving or preserving both likelihood and sample quality.
A smaller, less-trained model guides image generation, improving quality without sacrificing variation.
problem Improving image quality and variation in diffusion models without compromising one for the other.
method Guiding a conditional model with a smaller, less-trained version of the same model.
result Significant improvements in ImageNet generation, setting record FIDs.
Framework improves ML performance by identifying high-quality data.
problem Poor data quality hampers ML performance.
method Intelligent data-centric evaluation framework combining quality measurements and unsupervised learning.
result Framework improves ML system performance in real-world use case.
Paper proposes a method to enhance low-quality retinal images using optimal transport.
problem Artifacts and imperfections in retinal images lead to diagnostic inaccuracies.
method Leveraging optimal transport theory, an unpaired image-to-image translation scheme is proposed.
result The method improves perceptually and quantitatively the quality of low-quality retinal images.
Improves image quality in generative models by estimating pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty.
problem Lack of quantitative assessment of image quality in diffusion models.
method Estimate pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty during sampling phase using a perturbation scheme designed for diffusion models.
result Uncertainty-guided sampling leads to better sample generation quality as shown by FID scores.
Enhances diffusion models by preprocessing data to improve reconstruction quality.
problem Slow sampling and poor reconstruction quality in diffusion models, especially for small-scale networks.
method Applying Gaussianization preprocessing to the training data to make the target distribution more Gaussian-like.
result Improves generation quality, especially in the early stages of reconstruction with small networks.
Diffusion models improve sample quality with guidance, proving it works for general data distributions.
problem Theoretical understanding of guidance effect in diffusion models for general data distributions.
method Analyzing diffusion guidance under general data distributions, proving improvement in sample quality.
result Guidance improves the average reciprocal of the classifier probability, aligning with its motivation.
Generative models have made immense progress in recent years, particularly in their ability to generate high quality images. However, that quality has been difficult to evaluate rigorously, with evaluation dominated by heuristic approaches that do not correlate well with human judgment, such as the Inception Score and …
Automatically assesses the quality of online health articles.
problem Lack of automated tools to evaluate the quality of online health information.
method Data mining approach using 10 quality criteria and feature selection.
result Classifier achieved 84%-90% accuracy on 10 criteria.
C-VAE improves VAE by resolving prior issues and generating better samples.
problem Low-quality samples from VAE due to prior issues.
method Formulates VAE as OT, allows flexible priors, and uses OT formulations.
result C-VAE generates higher quality samples and latent representations.
A new sampling method called Restart improves both speed and quality of generative processes.
problem Balancing speed and quality in generative processes involving differential equations.
method Alternates between adding noise and following ODE, improving both speed and quality.
result Surpasses previous SDE and ODE samplers in both speed and accuracy.
We propose a new equilibrium enforcing method paired with a loss derived from the Wasserstein distance for training auto-encoder based Generative Adversarial Networks. This method balances the generator and discriminator during training. Additionally, it provides a new approximate convergence measure, fast and stable t…
DKGM improves image quality by debiasing kernel-based models.
problem Improving image quality in generative models without losing detail.
method Two-stage framework: KDE for density estimation, debiasing algorithm inspired by stochastic approximation.
result DKGM achieves comparable image quality to state-of-the-art models on CIFAR10.
Neural text generation models are often autoregressive language models or seq2seq models. These models generate text by sampling words sequentially, with each word conditioned on the previous word, and are state-of-the-art for several machine translation and summarization benchmarks. These benchmarks are often defined …
CDC-FM improves generative model quality-generalization tradeoff by regularizing with geometry-aware noise.
problem Tradeoff between high sample quality and memorization in deep generative models.
method Introduces Carré du champ flow matching (CDC-FM) that replaces homogeneous noise with anisotropic Gaussian noise capturing latent data manifold geometry.
result CDC-FM consistently offers better quality-generalization tradeoff across diverse datasets and architectures.
We describe a new training methodology for generative adversarial networks. The key idea is to grow both the generator and discriminator progressively: starting from a low resolution, we add new layers that model increasingly fine details as training progresses. This both speeds the training up and greatly stabilizes i…
VADD enhances discrete diffusion models by capturing inter-dimensional correlations, improving sample quality.
problem Limited modeling of inter-dimensional dependencies in MDMs degrades performance with few denoising steps.
method Introduces an auxiliary recognition model for latent variable modeling, enabling stable training via variational lower bounds maximization and amortized inference.
result VADD consistently outperforms MDM baselines in sample quality with few denoising steps.
Text generation is an important Natural Language Processing task with various applications. Although several metrics have already been introduced to evaluate the text generation methods, each of them has its own shortcomings. The most widely used metrics such as BLEU only consider the quality of generated sentences and…
New method reduces memorization in diffusion models without sacrificing image quality.
problem Diffusion models often memorize training data, especially with small datasets.
method Train models using noisy data at large noise scales to reduce memorization.
result Significant reduction in memorization without compromising image quality.
Thanks to the growing availability of spoofing databases and rapid advances in using them, systems for detecting voice spoofing attacks are becoming more and more capable, and error rates close to zero are being reached for the ASVspoof2015 database. However, speech synthesis and voice conversion paradigms that are not…
This study examines ensembling of diffusion models for improved generative quality.
problem Improving generative quality with ensembling of score-based diffusion models.
method Investigated ensembling of scores from multiple diffusion models on image and tabular data.
result Ensembling scores generally improves model likelihood and score-matching loss but not perceptual quality metrics.
The paper presents a method for generating well-calibrated prediction intervals using quality-driven deep ensembles.
problem Generating reliable prediction intervals for regression analysis.
method A multi-objective loss function combining quality measures for prediction intervals and point estimates, with a penalty function to ensure semantic integrity and stability.
result The method produces well-calibrated prediction intervals and point estimates, capturing both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.
We introduce a novel generative autoencoder network model that learns to encode and reconstruct images with high quality and resolution, and supports smooth random sampling from the latent space of the encoder. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are known for their ability to simulate random high-quality images, bu…
Study shows online learning algorithms incentivize low-quality content, proposing new algorithms to improve quality.
problem Online learning algorithms in content recommender systems incentivize producers to create low-quality content.
method Analyzed the game between producers and content quality, designed new learning algorithms to incentivize high effort and quality.
result New algorithms incentivize producers to invest high effort and achieve high user welfare, improving content quality.
Unified model improves sampling speed and quality.
problem Difficult to balance sampling speed and quality.
method Multistep Consistency Models combining consistency and diffusion models.
result Improved sampling quality with reduced steps.
Accelerates data generation in score-based models.
problem Slow generation of realistic data by score-based models.
method Developed an adaptive step size SDE solver.
result Generates data 2-10 times faster with high quality.
Improved autoregressive models generate higher quality images and are more robust to noise.
problem Generating high-quality images from autoregressive models.
method Noise conditional maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) with score-based sampling.
result Models trained with noise conditional MLE achieve better test likelihoods and generate higher quality images.
AirRL uses RL to infer urban air quality from selected stations.
problem Inferring fine-grained urban air quality from limited monitoring stations.
method Reinforcement learning model with a dynamic station selector and air quality regressor.
result AirRL achieves highest performance in air quality inference experiments.
The paper analyzes CFG in masked diffusion models and proposes a new method to improve sample quality.
problem Improving sample quality in conditional generation with CFG in masked diffusion models.
method Analyzing CFG's effect in a low-dimensional masked diffusion model, revealing early-stage guidance harms quality and late-stage improves it. Proposed a novel method to smooth transitions between distributions.
result The proposed method improves sample quality via a simple one-line code change.
We propose an alternative generator architecture for generative adversarial networks, borrowing from style transfer literature. The new architecture leads to an automatically learned, unsupervised separation of high-level attributes (e.g., pose and identity when trained on human faces) and stochastic variation in the g…
Study on sparse recovery with mixed-quality data, establishing sample-size conditions.
problem Sparse recovery with heterogeneous noise from high- and low-quality sources.
method Establishes linear trade-off for sufficient conditions, analyzes LASSO algorithm.
result Linear trade-off for sufficient conditions, robustness of LASSO to data heterogeneity.
REP-GAN improves GANs by reparameterizing proposals for better sample quality and efficiency.
problem Poor sample efficiency in GANs due to independent proposal sampling.
method REParameterizing Markov chains into the latent space of the generator to create dependent proposals.
result Empirically shows significant improvement in sample efficiency and quality.
Enhanced metrics improve generative model evaluation reliability.
problem Lack of reliable quality metrics for generative models.
method Introduce Clipped Density and Clipped Coverage metrics.
result Metrics prevent out-of-distribution samples from biasing quality scores.
Accurate MR-to-CT synthesis is a requirement for MR-only workflows in radiotherapy (RT) treatment planning. In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have shown impressive results in this field. However, to prevent downstream errors in RT treatment planning, it is important that deep learning models are only appl…
Improves GAN sample quality by refining the training dataset.
problem GANs generate unrealistic samples outside the data manifold.
method Instance selection to improve sample quality and reduce training time.
result Significantly reduces training time and improves sample fidelity.
FinSphere improves stock analysis quality with AI and expert-curated data.
problem Lack of objective evaluation metrics and depth in stock analysis by FinLLMs.
method Developed AnalyScore, curated Stocksis dataset, and FinSphere AI agent.
result FinSphere outperforms general and domain-specific LLMs in generating high-quality stock analysis reports.
Measures DNA quality degradation effects.
problem Identifying degraded DNA sequence data.
method Novel quality quantification based on intentional degradation effects.
result Quantified measures of degradation can be used for multiple purposes.
Improved DDPMs achieve high log-likelihoods and sample quality with fewer passes.
problem Improving log-likelihoods of DDPMs while maintaining high sample quality.
method Modifying DDPMs with learning variances and using precision-recall metrics.
result DDPMs can achieve competitive log-likelihoods with fewer forward passes.
Meta-CoTGAN improves adversarial text generation by preventing mode collapse.
problem Mode collapse in adversarial text generation.
method Meta-Cooperative Training Paradigm with a language model.
result Meta-CoTGAN effectively slows down mode collapse and improves generation quality and diversity.