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Autori principali: Ding, Ni, Qiao, Miao, Xu, Jiaxing, Ke, Yiping, Zhang, Xiaoyu
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14190
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author Ding, Ni
Qiao, Miao
Xu, Jiaxing
Ke, Yiping
Zhang, Xiaoyu
author_facet Ding, Ni
Qiao, Miao
Xu, Jiaxing
Ke, Yiping
Zhang, Xiaoyu
contents This paper proposes $α$-GAN, a generative adversarial network using Rényi measures. The value function is formulated, by Rényi cross entropy, as an expected certainty measure incurred by the discriminator's soft decision as to where the sample is from, true population or the generator. The discriminator tries to maximize the Rényi certainty about sample source, while the generator wants to reduce it by injecting fake samples. This forms a min-max problem with the solution parameterized by the Rényi order $α$. This $α$-GAN reduces to vanilla GAN at $α= 1$, where the value function is exactly the binary cross entropy. The optimization of $α$-GAN is over probability (vector) space. It is shown that the gradient is exponentially enlarged when Rényi order is in the range $α\in (0,1)$. This makes convergence faster, which is verified by experimental results. A discussion shows that choosing $α\in (0,1)$ may be able to solve some common problems, e.g., vanishing gradient. A following observation reveals that this range has not been fully explored in the existing Rényi version GANs.
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spellingShingle $α$-GAN by Rényi Cross Entropy
Ding, Ni
Qiao, Miao
Xu, Jiaxing
Ke, Yiping
Zhang, Xiaoyu
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
This paper proposes $α$-GAN, a generative adversarial network using Rényi measures. The value function is formulated, by Rényi cross entropy, as an expected certainty measure incurred by the discriminator's soft decision as to where the sample is from, true population or the generator. The discriminator tries to maximize the Rényi certainty about sample source, while the generator wants to reduce it by injecting fake samples. This forms a min-max problem with the solution parameterized by the Rényi order $α$. This $α$-GAN reduces to vanilla GAN at $α= 1$, where the value function is exactly the binary cross entropy. The optimization of $α$-GAN is over probability (vector) space. It is shown that the gradient is exponentially enlarged when Rényi order is in the range $α\in (0,1)$. This makes convergence faster, which is verified by experimental results. A discussion shows that choosing $α\in (0,1)$ may be able to solve some common problems, e.g., vanishing gradient. A following observation reveals that this range has not been fully explored in the existing Rényi version GANs.
title $α$-GAN by Rényi Cross Entropy
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14190