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SGN: A Similarity-based Generative Network for Data Generation under Distribution Shift

arXiv:2607. 18072v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models trained on a source domain often produce samples that are poorly aligned with shifted target domains, limiting their effectiveness for target-domain data augmentation.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

PAPT++: Risk-Aware Adversarial Tuning and Generation for Single Domain Generalization

PAPT++ is a risk‑aware adversarial generation‑training framework designed to improve single domain generalization. It learns diverse semantic reference images per class and uses them as denoising targets in classifier‑guided diffusion synthesis, thereby generating challenging yet semantically consistent samples. These samples are iteratively combined with source data to update the classifier, progressively exposing it to difficult variations and enhancing generalization performance on standard benchmarks.

By Zhipeng Xu, De Cheng, Xinyang Jiang, Lingfeng He, Huaijie Wang, Dongsheng Li, Nannan Wang, Xinbo Gao
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Limited Reference, Reliable Generation: A Two-Component Framework for Tabular Data Generation in Low-Data Regimes

arXiv:2509. 09960v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic tabular data generation is increasingly essential in machine learning, supporting downstream applications when real-world, high-quality tabular data is insufficient.

By Mingxuan Jiang, Keyang Chen, Yongxin Wang, Yongsheng Zhao, Ziyue Dai, Yicun Liu, Zeping Li, Qiuyang Zhang, Hongyi Nie, Hongbin Zhu, Sen Liu, Guangnan Ye, Hongfeng Chai
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

EmbeddGAN: A Novel GAN Framework Using an Embedding Network and Gini Distance Correlation

EmbeddGAN introduces a new GAN framework that replaces the traditional discriminator with an embedding network trained to maximize statistical dependence between embeddings and real/fake labels using Gini distance correlation (gCor). The generator simultaneously minimizes this dependence, encouraging real and generated samples to become indistinguishable in the learned low‑dimensional embedding space. Experiments on MNIST, CIFAR‑10, and CelebA show competitive performance and notably more stable training dynamics compared to established baselines.

By MaTais Caldwell, Yixin Chen, Xin Dang, Charles Walter
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Repurposing Pre-trained LLMs as High Fidelity Continuous Text Autoencoders

The paper introduces LLMAE, a technique that transforms a pretrained decoder-only language model into a continuous text autoencoder by inserting a fixed-length latent bottleneck into its internal activations. Using a 270M Gemma 3 model with structured attention masks, LoRA adaptation, and KL regularization, LLMAE achieves near-perfect reconstruction of text sequences up to 1024 tokens. The authors further show that the resulting latent representation can be leveraged to train a latent text diffusion model for detailed image captioning, demonstrating downstream utility.

By Arkanath Pathak, Unnat Jain, Alexander C. Berg