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Stabilizing Training of Generative Adversarial Networks Through Regularization (arxiv.org)
3 points by ghosthamlet on Apr 5, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Two networks compete in a GAN, but if the fake images never overlap the real ones, the score that guides training breaks down. A cheap added penalty fixes that mismatch, keeping training steady across many setups instead of needing careful tuning.

Abstract · Stabilizing Training of Generative Adversarial Networks through Regularization

Deep generative models based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated impressive sample quality but in order to work they require a careful choice of architecture, parameter initialization, and selection of hyper-parameters. This fragility is in part due to a dimensional mismatch or non-overlapping support between the model distribution and the data distribution, causing their density ratio and the associated f-divergence to be undefined. We overcome this fundamental limitation and propose a new regularization approach with low computational cost that yields a stable GAN training procedure. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this regularizer across several architectures trained on common benchmark image generation tasks. Our regularization turns GAN models into reliable building blocks for deep learning.

Kevin Roth, Aurelien Lucchi, Sebastian Nowozin, Thomas Hofmann
arXiv:1705.09367 · cs.LG, stat.ML · submitted May 25, 2017 · updated Nov 7, 2017
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