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48 results for conditional GANs

Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, commonly display unstable behavior during training. In this work, we develop a principled theoretical framework for understanding the stability of various types of GANs. In particular, we derive conditions that guarantee eventual stationarity of the generator when it is trained…

2020-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new model for building conditional generative models in a semi-supervised setting to conditionally generate data given attributes by adapting the GAN framework. The proposed semi-supervised GAN (SS-GAN) model uses a pair of stacked discriminators to learn the marginal distribution of the data, and the co…

2017-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We examined the use of modern Generative Adversarial Nets to generate novel images of oil paintings using the Painter By Numbers dataset. We implemented Spectral Normalization GAN (SN-GAN) and Spectral Normalization GAN with Gradient Penalty, and compared their outputs to a Deep Convolutional GAN. Visually, and quantit…

2019-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Traditional GANs use a deterministic generator function (typically a neural network) to transform a random noise input zz to a sample x\mathbf{x} that the discriminator seeks to distinguish. We propose a new GAN called Bayesian Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (BC-GANs) that use a random generator function…

2017-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a framework that learns a generative distribution through adversarial training. Recently, their class-conditional extensions (e.g., conditional GAN (cGAN) and auxiliary classifier GAN (AC-GAN)) have attracted much attention owing to their ability to learn the disentangled repr…

2018-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for conditional sampling using M-GANs, likely-free inference.

problem Conditional sampling of probability measures.
method Developed a novel computational approach called M-GANs based on block triangular transport.
result Accurate sampling of conditional measures in various applications.

Conditional generative models enjoy remarkable progress over the past few years. One of the popular conditional models is Auxiliary Classifier GAN (AC-GAN), which generates highly discriminative images by extending the loss function of GAN with an auxiliary classifier. However, the diversity of the generated samples by…

2019-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This work introduces an efficient method to sample high-quality images from conditional GANs.

problem Efficient subsampling of images from conditional GANs (cGANs) is challenging.
method Developed a novel conditional density ratio estimation method (cDRE-F-cSP) and rejection sampling scheme (cDR-RS).
result cDR-RS outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both effectiveness and efficiency.

Several dihedral angles prediction methods were developed for protein structure prediction and their other applications. However, distribution of predicted angles would not be similar to that of real angles. To address this we employed generative adversarial networks (GAN). Generative adversarial networks are composed …

2018-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗

GANs involve training two networks in an adversarial game, where each network's task depends on its adversary. Recently, several works have framed GAN training as an online or continual learning problem. We focus on the discriminator, which must perform classification under an (adversarially) shifting data distribution…

2018-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

cCorrGAN approximates conditional correlation matrices using GANs.

problem Learning empirical conditional distributions in the elliptope of correlation matrices.
method Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) applied to correlation matrices.
result Validated through Monte Carlo simulations in finance.

Proposes a new GAN architecture for generating data conditioned on partial information.

problem Generating data conditioned on partial ancillary information.
method Introduces a new Adversarial Network architecture and training strategy.
result The proposed method outperforms standard Conditional GANs in generating data under partial conditioning.

YuruGAN generates yuru-chara images using GANs and clustering for small datasets.

problem Generating high-quality yuru-chara images with limited data.
method Class conditional GAN with clustering and data augmentation.
result Improved quality of generated yuru-chara images through clustering and data augmentation.

Class-conditional extensions of generative adversarial networks (GANs), such as auxiliary classifier GAN (AC-GAN) and conditional GAN (cGAN), have garnered attention owing to their ability to decompose representations into class labels and other factors and to boost the training stability. However, a limitation is that…

2018-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey of GANs and autoencoders, addressing mode collapse and likelihood issues.

problem Addressing mode collapse and likelihood issues in GANs and autoencoders.
method Explains various GAN and autoencoder variants, their applications, and methods to resolve issues.
result Various methods to resolve mode collapse and improve likelihood in GANs and autoencoders.

Conditional GANs are at the forefront of natural image synthesis. The main drawback of such models is the necessity for labeled data. In this work we exploit two popular unsupervised learning techniques, adversarial training and self-supervision, and take a step towards bridging the gap between conditional and uncondit…

2018-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper uses SDEs to analyze GANs training and long-run behavior.

problem Understanding the training process and long-run behavior of GANs.
method Established SDE approximations for GANs training and analyzed long-run behavior via invariant measures.
result The long-run behavior of GANs training can be studied via the invariant measures of its SDE approximations.

In recent years, unsupervised/weakly-supervised conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved many successes on the task of modeling and generating data. However, one of their weaknesses lies in their poor ability to separate, or disentangle, the different factors that characterize the representation…

2020-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce systematically better quality samples when class label information is provided., i.e. in the conditional GAN setup. This is still observed for the recently proposed Wasserstein GAN formulation which stabilized adversarial training and allows considering high capacity netwo…

2017-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We use GANs and signatures to approximate conditional laws in filtering and prediction of diffusion processes.

problem Approximating conditional laws for diffusion processes with noisy observations.
method Conditional GANs combined with signatures for approximation.
result Efficient approximation of conditional laws for diffusion processes.

We develop a novel method for training of GANs for unsupervised and class conditional generation of images, called Linear Discriminant GAN (LD-GAN). The discriminator of an LD-GAN is trained to maximize the linear separability between distributions of hidden representations of generated and targeted samples, while the …

2017-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent work (Pennington et al, 2017) suggests that controlling the entire distribution of Jacobian singular values is an important design consideration in deep learning. Motivated by this, we study the distribution of singular values of the Jacobian of the generator in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We find th…

2018-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient descent on MMD GAN parameter space converges globally to target distribution.

problem Convergence of gradient descent in Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) GANs.
method Proposes a parametric kernelized gradient flow that mimics the min-max game in gradient regularized MMD GAN.
result Gradient descent on the generator's parameter space in gradient regularized MMD GAN is globally convergent to the target distribution under certain conditions.

We propose a unified game-theoretical framework to perform classification and conditional image generation given limited supervision. It is formulated as a three-player minimax game consisting of a generator, a classifier and a discriminator, and therefore is referred to as Triple Generative Adversarial Network (Triple…

2019-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

HybridCGAN improves portfolio analysis by balancing trend prediction and market uncertainty.

problem Markowitz framework's overemphasis on market uncertainty and trend prediction.
method A hybrid approach combining deep generative models to balance trend prediction and market uncertainty.
result HybridCGAN leads to better portfolio allocation compared to existing methods.

EM-GAN uses GANs for fast stress analysis of multi-segment interconnects.

problem Fast and accurate stress analysis for EM failure assessment in multi-segment interconnects.
method Conditional GAN model trained on images of multi-segment wires and current densities.
result EM-GAN provides accurate stress distribution with 6.6% error and 8.3X speedup.

Despite the growing prominence of generative adversarial networks (GANs), optimization in GANs is still a poorly understood topic. In this paper, we analyze the "gradient descent" form of GAN optimization i.e., the natural setting where we simultaneously take small gradient steps in both generator and discriminator par…

2017-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores how the latent structure affects clustering in GAN-generated data.

problem Achieving well-clustered data in GAN-generated spaces, especially with class imbalance.
method Derives conditions for faithful clustering in GANs, including multimodal latent space, latent space inversion, and cluster priors imposition.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for clustering in GANs are identified, and their importance is demonstrated through ablative studies.

Generative adversarial networks are used to generate images but still their convergence properties are not well understood. There have been a few studies who intended to investigate the stability properties of GANs as a dynamical system. This short writing can be seen in that direction. Among the proposed methods for s…

2018-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Dual-objective GANs reduce training instabilities with tunable α-loss parameters.

problem Training instabilities in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).
method Introduce (αD,αG)(α_D,α_G)-GANs with dual objectives modeled using αα-loss.
result Upper bounds on estimation error show improved performance under certain conditions.

In this paper, we propose a method that disentangles the effects of multiple input conditions in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In particular, we demonstrate our method in controlling color, texture, and shape of a generated garment image for computer-aided fashion design. To disentangle the effect of input at…

2018-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent state-of-the-art video generation systems employ Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to produce novel videos. However, VAE models typically produce blurry outputs when faced with sub-optimal conditioning of the input, and GANs are known to be unstable for large output sizes.…

2019-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new method using GANs for testing conditional independence.

problem High-dimensional conditional independence testing in statistics and machine learning.
method Double GANs framework to learn conditional distributions, then construct a test statistic.
result The test statistic is doubly robust and has asymptotic power approaching one.

The recent success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is a result of their ability to generate high quality images from a latent vector space. An important application is the generation of images from a text description, where the text description is encoded and further used in the conditioning of the generated i…

2019-05-16abs ↗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.