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48 results for WGANs

Paper optimizes WGAN parameters for non-Gaussian data.

problem Optimizing parameters for non-Gaussian data in WGAN.
method Characterization of optimal solutions for population WGAN beyond LQG setting, using sliced Wasserstein framework.
result Closed-form optimal parameters for non-linear activation functions and non-Gaussian data derived.

Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) provide a versatile class of models, which have attracted great attention in various applications. However, this framework has two main drawbacks: (i) Wasserstein-1 (or Earth-Mover) distance is restrictive such that WGANs cannot always fit data geometry well; (ii) It …

2017-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Wasserstein GANs with Gradient Penalty compute a different optimal transport problem called congested transport.

problem Training generative models to produce high-quality synthetic data.
method Wasserstein GANs with Gradient Penalty (WGAN-GP) approach to calculate the Wasserstein 1 distance.
result WGAN-GP computes the minimum of the congested transport problem, not the Wasserstein 1 distance.

Generative adversarial network improves audio inpainting for long gaps.

problem Generating missing audio content in long-range gaps using WGAN.
method Proposed WGAN architecture with short-range and long-range neighboring borders.
result The proposed model outperforms classical WGAN in reconstructing high-frequency content.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have enjoyed much success in learning high-dimensional distributions. Learning objectives approximately minimize an ff-divergence (ff-GANs) or an integral probability metric (Wasserstein GANs) between the model and the data distribution using a discriminator. Wasserstein GANs en…

2019-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces a new ODE approach to improve Wasserstein GANs.

problem Improving Wasserstein GANs for better training results.
method Derives an ODE representing the gradient flow of Wasserstein-1 loss and proposes a new model W1-FE.
result W1-FE outperforms WGAN in training experiments across various dimensions.

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful generative models, but suffer from training instability. The recently proposed Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) makes progress toward stable training of GANs, but sometimes can still generate only low-quality samples or fail to converge. We find that these problems are often du…

2017-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative Adversial Networks (GANs) have made a major impact in computer vision and machine learning as generative models. Wasserstein GANs (WGANs) brought Optimal Transport (OT) theory into GANs, by minimizing the 11-Wasserstein distance between model and data distributions as their objective function. Since then, W…

2019-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a widely used framework for learning generative models. Wasserstein GANs (WGANs), one of the most successful variants of GANs, require solving a minmax optimization problem to global optimality, but are in practice successfully trained using stochastic gradient descent-ascent.…

2019-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The study provides statistical theory for WGANs in time series forecasting.

problem Statistical analysis of WGANs for time series forecasting.
method Statistical theory and upper bounds for excess Bayes risk, weak convergence, and confidence intervals.
result Developed confidence intervals for time series forecasting using WGANs.

Paper relaxes the Lipschitz constraint in WGANs to improve performance.

problem WGANs do not always outperform other GAN variants due to imperfect implementation of the Lipschitz condition.
method Proposes a new dual form of Wasserstein distance (Sobolev duality) that relaxes the Lipschitz constraint but maintains gradient property.
result SWGAN, based on Sobolev duality, outperforms existing methods in experiments.

We address the issue of limit cycling behavior in training Generative Adversarial Networks and propose the use of Optimistic Mirror Decent (OMD) for training Wasserstein GANs. Recent theoretical results have shown that optimistic mirror decent (OMD) can enjoy faster regret rates in the context of zero-sum games. WGANs …

2017-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

WGANs improve probability distribution approximation with depth and width trade-offs.

problem Approximating complex probability distributions accurately.
method Wasserstein GANs with GroupSort discriminators, quantified generalization bound.
result High-capacity discriminators are crucial for WGANs' performance.

GS-WGAN sanitizes sensitive data for machine learning with improved privacy and model quality.

problem Lack of privacy in sensitive data hinders machine learning applications.
method Gradient-sanitized Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (GS-WGAN).
result GS-WGAN generates more informative samples and outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.

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 generation is challenging for them which causes high levels of instability in tr…

2018-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

GANs struggle with density estimation on simple datasets, while normalizing flows perform well.

problem Comparing GANs and normalizing flows for density estimation on non-image data.
method An extensive grid search over GAN architectures, hyperparameters, and training procedures; comparison on low-dimensional synthetic datasets.
result Normalizing flows outperform GANs in density estimation, especially in terms of Wasserstein distance.

Paper introduces a new method to improve GANs by leveraging the discriminator's energy.

problem Improving the quality of generated samples in GANs.
method Discriminator Contrastive Divergence (DCD) method.
result Significant improvement in generation quality on synthetic and real-world data.

The paper trains neural networks with robustness guarantees using semidefinite constraints.

problem Training neural networks with robustness and stability guarantees.
method Exploiting the banded structure of semidefinite constraints, an efficient and scalable training scheme based on interior point methods is set up.
result The method allows for enforcing Lipschitz constraints in large-scale deep neural networks, as demonstrated in numerical examples.

This paper explains the math behind a generative adversarial network (GAN) model and why it is hard to be trained. Wasserstein GAN is intended to improve GANs' training by adopting a smooth metric for measuring the distance between two probability distributions.

2019-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings on optimal transport gradient for generative models, addressing numerical instabilities.

problem Numerical instabilities in training Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGAN).
method Valid differentiation theorem for entropic regularized transport, semi-discrete gradient formulation, and optimization algorithm.
result Existence of optimal transport gradient for generative models under specified conditions.

Unsupervised learning with generative adversarial networks (GANs) has proven to be hugely successful. Regular GANs hypothesize the discriminator as a classifier with the sigmoid cross entropy loss function. However, we found that this loss function may lead to the vanishing gradients problem during the learning process…

2017-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new algorithm named WGAN, an alternative to traditional GAN training. In this new model, we show that we can improve the stability of learning, get rid of problems like mode collapse, and provide meaningful learning curves useful for debugging and hyperparameter searches. Furthermore, we show that the co…

2017-01-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes GM Score to evaluate GANs considering diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability.

problem Evaluation of GANs for sample quality and diversity.
method Integrates various factors including intra-class and inter-class diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability metrics.
result Demonstrates improved evaluation of GANs on MNIST dataset.

FE-GAN improves VaR and ES estimation in financial risk management.

problem Improving VaR and ES estimation in financial risk management.
method Feature-Enriched Generative Adversarial Networks (FE-GAN) with specialized models like WGAN and Tail-GAN.
result FE-GAN significantly outperforms traditional GANs in VaR and ES estimation.

In this paper, we study the convergence of generative adversarial networks (GANs) from the perspective of the informativeness of the gradient of the optimal discriminative function. We show that GANs without restriction on the discriminative function space commonly suffer from the problem that the gradient produced by …

2019-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Study robust distribution estimation with Wasserstein distance, achieving optimal risk.

problem Robust distribution estimation under adversarial corruption.
method Combining partial OT and minimum distance estimation, proving structural properties and deriving a novel dual form.
result Achieves minimax-optimal robust estimation risk in many settings.

Generative adversarial networks create synthetic insurance datasets from confidential originals.

problem Difficulty in accessing or sharing confidential insurance datasets for research.
method Design and use of three GAN architectures tailored for multi-categorical insurance data.
result MC-WGAN-GP synthesizes the best data, CTGAN is easiest to use, and MNCDP-GAN ensures differential privacy.

To improve the stability of GAN training we need to understand why they can produce realistic samples. Presently, this is attributed to properties of the divergence obtained under an optimal discriminator. This argument has a fundamental flaw: If we do not impose regularity of the discriminator, it can exploit visually…

2019-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes Sig-Wasserstein GANs for generating time series with temporal dependence.

problem Challenges in generating time series with temporal dependence and high-dimensional data.
method Integrates Wasserstein-GANs with signature feature extraction for conditional time series generation.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art benchmarks in similarity and predictive ability.

POTNet uses penalized optimal transport to generate data without mode collapse.

problem Mode collapse in WGANs leading to poor synthetic data generation.
method POTNet employs marginally-penalized Wasserstein distance for deep generative modeling.
result POTNet effectively captures underlying data structures, including tail behaviors and minor modalities.