In plain words: A picture generator first learns from mostly unlabeled images, so it needs far fewer labels to know what it is drawing. On a large photo collection it matched the best label-hungry generator's image quality with 10% of the labels and beat it with 20%.
Abstract · High-Fidelity Image Generation With Fewer Labels
Deep generative models are becoming a cornerstone of modern machine learning. Recent work on conditional generative adversarial networks has shown that learning complex, high-dimensional distributions over natural images is within reach. While the latest models are able to generate high-fidelity, diverse natural images at high resolution, they rely on a vast quantity of labeled data. In this work we demonstrate how one can benefit from recent work on self- and semi-supervised learning to outperform the state of the art on both unsupervised ImageNet synthesis, as well as in the conditional setting. In particular, the proposed approach is able to match the sample quality (as measured by FID) of the current state-of-the-art conditional model BigGAN on ImageNet using only 10% of the labels and outperform it using 20% of the labels.
Mario Lucic, Michael Tschannen, Marvin Ritter, Xiaohua Zhai, Olivier Bachem, Sylvain Gelly
arXiv:1903.02271 · cs.LG, cs.CV, stat.ML · submitted Mar 6, 2019 · updated May 14, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · Mario Lucic, Michael Tschannen, and Marvin Ritter contributed equally to this work. ICML 2019 camera-ready version. Code available at https://github.com/google/compare_gan