In plain words: Generative adversarial networks pit a picture-maker against a picture-judge; this tweak lets the maker adjust its internal starting point with a smarter step so the two push each other harder. On ImageNet it cut the distance-from-real-images score 32% versus the same-size BigGAN-deep.
Abstract · LOGAN: Latent Optimisation for Generative Adversarial Networks
Training generative adversarial networks requires balancing of delicate adversarial dynamics. Even with careful tuning, training may diverge or end up in a bad equilibrium with dropped modes. In this work, we improve CS-GAN with natural gradient-based latent optimisation and show that it improves adversarial dynamics by enhancing interactions between the discriminator and the generator. Our experiments demonstrate that latent optimisation can significantly improve GAN training, obtaining state-of-the-art performance for the ImageNet ($128 \times 128$) dataset. Our model achieves an Inception Score (IS) of $148$ and an Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) of $3.4$, an improvement of $17\%$ and $32\%$ in IS and FID respectively, compared with the baseline BigGAN-deep model with the same architecture and number of parameters.
Yan Wu, Jeff Donahue, David Balduzzi, Karen Simonyan, Timothy Lillicrap
arXiv:1912.00953 · cs.LG, stat.ML · submitted Dec 2, 2019 · updated Jul 1, 2020
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