In plain words: Instead of a judge that just says real or fake, this method scores how much work it would take to move generated samples onto real ones. Training became more stable, avoided collapsing onto a few repeated outputs, and gave a score that tracks quality.
Abstract
We introduce a new algorithm named WGAN, an alternative to traditional GAN training. In this new model, we show that we can improve the stability of learning, get rid of problems like mode collapse, and provide meaningful learning curves useful for debugging and hyperparameter searches. Furthermore, we show that the corresponding optimization problem is sound, and provide extensive theoretical work highlighting the deep connections to other distances between distributions.
Martin Arjovsky, Soumith Chintala, Léon Bottou
arXiv:1701.07875 · stat.ML, cs.LG · submitted Jan 26, 2017 · updated Dec 6, 2017
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