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48 results for mode-collapsing

Mathematical analysis shows annealing prevents mode collapse in Gaussian mixtures.

problem Mode collapse in variational inference for multimodal distributions.
method Analyzed annealing strategies for Gaussian mixtures, derived formulas, and tested on neural networks.
result Appropriately chosen annealing schemes can robustly prevent mode collapse.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are innovative techniques for learning generative models of complex data distributions from samples. Despite remarkable recent improvements in generating realistic images, one of their major shortcomings is the fact that in practice, they tend to produce samples with little divers…

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This work explains GAN mode collapse and convergence issues via optimal transportation theory.

problem GANs struggle with convergence and mode collapse due to discontinuous optimal transportation mappings.
method The study connects GANs to optimal transportation theory, testing hypotheses about discontinuity and proposing a new method to approximate continuous Brenier potentials.
result The supports of real data distributions are often non-convex, leading to discontinuous optimal transportation mappings and mode collapse in GANs.

Theoretical work on mode collapse in variational inference models.

problem Mode collapse in variational inference models, where models focus on a few modes instead of all possible ones.
method Theoretical investigation of mode collapse in Gaussian mixture models, identifying key low-dimensional statistics and equations governing their evolution.
result Mode collapse is present even in favorable scenarios, driven by mean alignment and vanishing weight mechanisms.

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.

New metrics improve scRNA-seq perturbation modeling by reducing mode collapse.

problem Outperformed by simple mean prediction in scRNA-seq perturbation modeling.
method Introduce DEG-aware metrics (WMSE, Rw2(Δ)R^{2}_{w}(Δ)) and negative/positive baselines.
result WMSE loss function reduces mode collapse and improves model performance.

The paper examines GANs' forgetting and mode collapse, showing how they relate and impact training.

problem Catastrophic forgetting and mode collapse in GANs during continual learning.
method Investigates the continual learning nature of GANs, analyzing discriminator's output landscapes and convergence.
result Catastrophic forgetting and mode collapse are interrelated and prevent GANs from converging.

Study shows annealing with adaptive schedule reduces mode collapse in NFs for parameter estimation.

problem Mode collapse in normalizing flows for multimodal distributions.
method Annealing with an adaptive schedule based on effective sample size (ESS).
result Our approach reduces mode collapse and converges marginal likelihood faster than MCMC methods.

Improved RL training for DMs reduces mode collapse and preserves diversity.

problem Mode collapse and training instability in RL fine-tuned diffusion models.
method Dynamic hierarchical RL training with sliding-window parameter regularisation.
result Models trained with HRF achieve better preservation of diversity in downstream tasks.

Paper presents a new method to avoid mode collapse in implicit generative models.

problem Training implicit generative models is challenging due to mode collapse issues.
method Introduces a learning by teaching (LBT) approach to optimize KL-divergence instead of JS-divergence.
result Optimal generator matches the true data distribution, avoiding mode collapse.

A new GAN variant avoids mode collapse and generates high-quality images.

problem Mode collapse in GANs.
method Mixture Density GAN uses Gaussian mixtures to encourage the discriminator to form clusters, leading the generator to discover multiple data modes.
result Mixture Density GAN generates images with high quality and avoids mode collapse, as shown by FID metrics.

InfoQGAN uses mutual information to improve QGANs, overcoming mode collapse and feature disentanglement issues.

problem Mode collapse and lack of feature control in QGANs.
method Integrates InfoGAN principles with variational quantum circuit, classical discriminator, and MINE for mutual information optimization.
result InfoQGAN effectively mitigates mode collapse and achieves robust feature disentanglement.

PresGANs improve GANs by mitigating mode collapse and enhancing log-likelihood.

problem GANs struggle with mode collapse and lack a reliable way to evaluate generalization.
method PresGANs add noise to density networks and use entropy regularization to stabilize training and capture all modes.
result PresGANs reduce the gap in predictive log-likelihood between GANs and VAEs.

VINNAS uses variational inference to avoid mode collapse in neural architecture search.

problem Mode collapse in gradient-based NAS methods, leading to suboptimal architectures.
method Differentiable variational inference with variational dropout and automatic relevance determination.
result State-of-the-art accuracy with up to twice fewer non-zero parameters.

SPECTRE uses spectral conditioning to generate larger graphs without mode collapse.

problem Overcoming expressivity and mode collapse in one-shot graph generators.
method SPECTRE generates graph Laplacian spectrum and eigenvectors to model graph structure.
result SPECTRE outperforms state-of-the-art deep autoregressive generators in fidelity and speed.

Jeffreys Flow improves robustness of Boltzmann generators for rare event sampling.

problem Rare events and metastable trapping in sampling physical systems with rough energy landscapes.
method Introduces Jeffreys Flow, a robust generative framework using Parallel Tempering distillation and symmetric Jeffreys divergence to mitigate mode collapse and improve mode coverage.
result Minimizing Jeffreys divergence suppresses mode collapse and corrects inaccuracies in multi-modal distributions.

GANs struggle with mode collapse; continual learning techniques improve performance.

problem GANs struggle with mode collapse and oscillations during training.
method Leverage continual learning techniques to augment the discriminator, preserving its ability to recognize previous generator samples.
result Improved overall performance on image and text generation tasks.

CNFs model conditional densities efficiently and avoid mode collapse.

problem Capturing strong correlations between output dimensions in structured prediction tasks.
method Conditional normalizing flows (CNFs) with a likelihood-based objective.
result CNFs achieve competitive performance in super-resolution and vessel segmentation tasks.

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.

DEBAL uses ensemble methods to improve deep Bayesian active learning in image classification.

problem Mode collapse issue in Monte Carlo dropout for deep CNNs.
method Proposes DEBAL, an ensemble-based active learning strategy for deep neural networks.
result DEBAL improves deep Bayesian active learning, capturing superior data uncertainty and faster convergence.

End-to-end learnable Gaussian mixture priors improve diffusion models' exploration and expressiveness.

problem Challenges in diffusion models when priors differ from target distributions.
method End-to-end learnable Gaussian mixture priors (GMPs) with iterative refinement.
result Significant performance improvements across various benchmark problems.

Unbalanced GANs stabilize GAN training by pre-training the generator with VAE.

problem Stable training of GANs to avoid mode collapses and improve image quality.
method Pre-train GAN generator with VAE, balance generator and discriminator training, prevent discriminator's early convergence.
result Unbalanced GANs reduce mode collapses and outperform ordinary GANs in stability, convergence, and image quality.