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Vyas Sekar

4 accepted papers

2021

Pareto GAN: Extending the Representational Power of GANs to Heavy-Tailed Distributions

ICML 2021spotlight

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are often billed as "universal distribution learners", but precisely what distributions they can represent and learn is still an open question. Heavy-tailed distributions are prevalent in many different domains such as financial risk-assessment, physics, and ep…

2021

Why Spectral Normalization Stabilizes GANs: Analysis and Improvements

NeurIPS 2021poster

Spectral normalization (SN) is a widely-used technique for improving the stability and sample quality of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, current understanding of SN's efficacy is limited. In this work, we show that SN controls two important failure modes of GAN training: exploding a…