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Bridging the Gap Between $F$-GANs and Wasserstein GANs (arxiv.org)
3 points by sel1 on Oct 23, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: They add two limits to the usual f-GAN training goal and relax them, making one objective that keeps the f-GAN's density-ratio estimates while gaining the Wasserstein GAN's strength. On a standard small-image benchmark it earned the best image-quality score.

Abstract · Bridging the Gap Between $f$-GANs and Wasserstein GANs

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have enjoyed much success in learning high-dimensional distributions. Learning objectives approximately minimize an $f$-divergence ($f$-GANs) or an integral probability metric (Wasserstein GANs) between the model and the data distribution using a discriminator. Wasserstein GANs enjoy superior empirical performance, but in $f$-GANs the discriminator can be interpreted as a density ratio estimator which is necessary in some GAN applications. In this paper, we bridge the gap between $f$-GANs and Wasserstein GANs (WGANs). First, we list two constraints over variational $f$-divergence estimation objectives that preserves the optimal solution. Next, we minimize over a Lagrangian relaxation of the constrained objective, and show that it generalizes critic objectives of both $f$-GAN and WGAN. Based on this generalization, we propose a novel practical objective, named KL-Wasserstein GAN (KL-WGAN). We demonstrate empirical success of KL-WGAN on synthetic datasets and real-world image generation benchmarks, and achieve state-of-the-art FID scores on CIFAR10 image generation.

Jiaming Song, Stefano Ermon
arXiv:1910.09779 · cs.LG, stat.ML · submitted Oct 22, 2019 · updated Jun 17, 2020
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