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20162024
most citedA Theory of Generative ConvNet

167 citations · 457 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Molecule Design by Latent Prompt Transformer

Deqian Kong, Yuhao Huang, Jianwen Xie +8

This work explores the challenging problem of molecule design by framing it as a conditional generative modeling task, where target biological properties or desired chemical constr…

cs.LG2023

Molecule Design by Latent Prompt Transformer

Deqian Kong, Yuhao Huang, Jianwen Xie +1

This paper proposes a latent prompt Transformer model for solving challenging optimization problems such as molecule design, where the goal is to find molecules with optimal values…

stat.ML2023

Learning Energy-Based Models by Cooperative Diffusion Recovery Likelihood

Yaxuan Zhu, Jianwen Xie, Yingnian Wu +1

Training energy-based models (EBMs) on high-dimensional data can be both challenging and time-consuming, and there exists a noticeable gap in sample quality between EBMs and other…

cs.CV2023

Progressive Energy-Based Cooperative Learning for Multi-Domain Image-to-Image Translation

Weinan Song, Yaxuan Zhu, Lei He +2

This paper studies a novel energy-based cooperative learning framework for multi-domain image-to-image translation. The framework consists of four components: descriptor, translato…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Likelihood-Based Generative Radiance Field with Latent Space Energy-Based Model for 3D-Aware Disentangled Image Representation

Yaxuan Zhu, Jianwen Xie, Ping Li

We propose the NeRF-LEBM, a likelihood-based top-down 3D-aware 2D image generative model that incorporates 3D representation via Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 2D imaging proces…

cs.CV2023

CoopInit: Initializing Generative Adversarial Networks via Cooperative Learning

Yang Zhao, Jianwen Xie, Ping Li

Numerous research efforts have been made to stabilize the training of the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), such as through regularization and architecture design. However, w…

stat.ML2023

A Tale of Two Latent Flows: Learning Latent Space Normalizing Flow with Short-run Langevin Flow for Approximate Inference

Jianwen Xie, Yaxuan Zhu, Yifei Xu +2

We study a normalizing flow in the latent space of a top-down generator model, in which the normalizing flow model plays the role of the informative prior model of the generator. W…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

CoopHash: Cooperative Learning of Multipurpose Descriptor and Contrastive Pair Generator via Variational MCMC Teaching for Supervised Image Hashing

Khoa D. Doan, Jianwen Xie, Yaxuan Zhu +2

Leveraging supervised information can lead to superior retrieval performance in the image hashing domain but the performance degrades significantly without enough labeled data. One…

stat.ML2022★ 9 cited

A Tale of Two Flows: Cooperative Learning of Langevin Flow and Normalizing Flow Toward Energy-Based Model

Jianwen Xie, Yaxuan Zhu, Jun Li +1

This paper studies the cooperative learning of two generative flow models, in which the two models are iteratively updated based on the jointly synthesized examples. The first flow…

cs.CV2022

An Energy-Based Prior for Generative Saliency

Jing Zhang, Jianwen Xie, Nick Barnes +1

We propose a novel generative saliency prediction framework that adopts an informative energy-based model as a prior distribution. The energy-based prior model is defined on the la…

cs.CV2021★ 45 cited

Learning Generative Vision Transformer with Energy-Based Latent Space for Saliency Prediction

Jing Zhang, Jianwen Xie, Nick Barnes +1

Vision transformer networks have shown superiority in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, we take a step further by proposing a novel generative vision transformer with late…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Blind Image Super-resolution with Elaborate Degradation Modeling on Noise and Kernel

Zongsheng Yue, Qian Zhao, Jianwen Xie +3

While researches on model-based blind single image super-resolution (SISR) have achieved tremendous successes recently, most of them do not consider the image degradation sufficien…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Energy-Based Generative Cooperative Saliency Prediction

Jing Zhang, Jianwen Xie, Zilong Zheng +1

Conventional saliency prediction models typically learn a deterministic mapping from an image to its saliency map, and thus fail to explain the subjective nature of human attention…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

Semi-Supervised Video Deraining with Dynamical Rain Generator

Zongsheng Yue, Jianwen Xie, Qian Zhao +1

While deep learning (DL)-based video deraining methods have achieved significant success recently, they still exist two major drawbacks. Firstly, most of them do not sufficiently m…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Learning Cycle-Consistent Cooperative Networks via Alternating MCMC Teaching for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Translation

Jianwen Xie, Zilong Zheng, Xiaolin Fang +2

This paper studies the unsupervised cross-domain translation problem by proposing a generative framework, in which the probability distribution of each domain is represented by a g…

cs.CV2020★ 6 cited

Generative VoxelNet: Learning Energy-Based Models for 3D Shape Synthesis and Analysis

Jianwen Xie, Zilong Zheng, Ruiqi Gao +3

3D data that contains rich geometry information of objects and scenes is valuable for understanding 3D physical world. With the recent emergence of large-scale 3D datasets, it beco…

stat.ML2020★ 1 cited

Learning Energy-Based Model with Variational Auto-Encoder as Amortized Sampler

Jianwen Xie, Zilong Zheng, Ping Li

Due to the intractable partition function, training energy-based models (EBMs) by maximum likelihood requires Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling to approximate the gradient o…

cs.CV2020★ 6 cited

Learning Noise-Aware Encoder-Decoder from Noisy Labels by Alternating Back-Propagation for Saliency Detection

Jing Zhang, Jianwen Xie, Nick Barnes

In this paper, we propose a noise-aware encoder-decoder framework to disentangle a clean saliency predictor from noisy training examples, where the noisy labels are generated by un…

q-bio.NC2020★ 3 cited

On Path Integration of Grid Cells: Group Representation and Isotropic Scaling

Ruiqi Gao, Jianwen Xie, Xue-Xin Wei +2

Understanding how grid cells perform path integration calculations remains a fundamental problem. In this paper, we conduct theoretical analysis of a general representation model o…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Generative PointNet: Deep Energy-Based Learning on Unordered Point Sets for 3D Generation, Reconstruction and Classification

Jianwen Xie, Yifei Xu, Zilong Zheng +2

We propose a generative model of unordered point sets, such as point clouds, in the form of an energy-based model, where the energy function is parameterized by an input-permutatio…

stat.ML2019

Representation Learning: A Statistical Perspective

Jianwen Xie, Ruiqi Gao, Erik Nijkamp +2

Learning representations of data is an important problem in statistics and machine learning. While the origin of learning representations can be traced back to factor analysis and…

cs.CV2019★ 3 cited

Motion-Based Generator Model: Unsupervised Disentanglement of Appearance, Trackable and Intrackable Motions in Dynamic Patterns

Jianwen Xie, Ruiqi Gao, Zilong Zheng +2

Dynamic patterns are characterized by complex spatial and motion patterns. Understanding dynamic patterns requires a disentangled representational model that separates the factoria…

cs.CV2019★ 1 cited

Learning Energy-based Spatial-Temporal Generative ConvNets for Dynamic Patterns

Jianwen Xie, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu

Video sequences contain rich dynamic patterns, such as dynamic texture patterns that exhibit stationarity in the temporal domain, and action patterns that are non-stationary in eit…

cs.CV2019★ 12 cited

Learning Feature-to-Feature Translator by Alternating Back-Propagation for Generative Zero-Shot Learning

Yizhe Zhu, Jianwen Xie, Bingchen Liu +1

We investigate learning feature-to-feature translator networks by alternating back-propagation as a general-purpose solution to zero-shot learning (ZSL) problems. It is a generativ…