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Non-AsymptoticErrorBoundsfor BidirectionalGANs

Neural Information Processing Systems

We derive nearly sharp bounds for the bidirectional GAN (BiGAN) estimation error under the Dudley distance between the latent joint distribution and the data joint distribution with appropriately specified architecture of the neural networks usedinthemodel.



RealStats: A Rigorous Real-Only Statistical Framework for Fake Image Detection

Zisman, Haim, Shaham, Uri

arXiv.org Machine Learning

As generative models continue to evolve, detecting AI-generated images remains a critical challenge. While effective detection methods exist, they often lack formal interpretability and may rely on implicit assumptions about fake content, potentially limiting robustness to distributional shifts. In this work, we introduce a rigorous, statistically grounded framework for fake image detection that focuses on producing a probability score interpretable with respect to the real-image population. Our method leverages the strengths of multiple existing detectors by combining training-free statistics. We compute p-values over a range of test statistics and aggregate them using classical statistical ensembling to assess alignment with the unified real-image distribution. This framework is generic, flexible, and training-free, making it well-suited for robust fake image detection across diverse and evolving settings.


Universal Sample Coding

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this work, we study the problem of communicating multiple samples from an unknown probability distribution using as few bits as possible. This is a generalization of the channel simulation problem, which has recently found applications and achieved state of the art results in realistic image compression, neural network compression, and communication-efficient federated learning. In this problem, the transmitter wants the receiver to generate multiple independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples from a target distribution $P$, while the transmitter and the receiver have access to independent samples from a reference distribution $Q$. The core idea is to employ channel simulation in multiple rounds while updating the reference distribution $Q$ after each round in order to reduce the KL-divergence between $P$ and $Q$, thereby reducing the communication cost in subsequent rounds. We derive a lower bound on the expected communication cost and construct a practical algorithm that achieves the lower bound up to a multiplicative constant. We then employ this algorithm in communication-efficient federated learning, in which model updates correspond to samples from a distribution, and achieve a 37% reduction in the communication load. To further highlight the potential of sample communication for generative models, we show that the number of bits needed to communicate samples from a large language model can be reduced by up to 16 times, compared to entropy-based data compression.