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Training GANs just became *a lot* easier (arxiv.org)
1 point by doge2moon on Jun 15, 2020 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: AI image generators fall apart when trained on only a few thousand pictures because the judge network memorizes them; this fix keeps randomly distorting the pictures it sees so it cannot. The generator then matches the usual approach trained on ten times more images.

Abstract · Training Generative Adversarial Networks with Limited Data

Training generative adversarial networks (GAN) using too little data typically leads to discriminator overfitting, causing training to diverge. We propose an adaptive discriminator augmentation mechanism that significantly stabilizes training in limited data regimes. The approach does not require changes to loss functions or network architectures, and is applicable both when training from scratch and when fine-tuning an existing GAN on another dataset. We demonstrate, on several datasets, that good results are now possible using only a few thousand training images, often matching StyleGAN2 results with an order of magnitude fewer images. We expect this to open up new application domains for GANs. We also find that the widely used CIFAR-10 is, in fact, a limited data benchmark, and improve the record FID from 5.59 to 2.42.

Tero Karras, Miika Aittala, Janne Hellsten, Samuli Laine, Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila
arXiv:2006.06676 · cs.CV, cs.LG, cs.NE, stat.ML · submitted Jun 11, 2020 · updated Oct 7, 2020
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