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Controlling the image generation process with parametric activation functions

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-10-20 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

As image generative models continue to increase not only in their fidelity but also in their ubiquity the development of tools that leverage direct interaction with their internal mechanisms in an interpretable way has received little attention In this work we introduce a system that allows users to develop a better understanding of the model through interaction and experimentation By giving users the ability to replace activation functions of a generative network with parametric ones and a way to set the parameters of these functions we introduce an alternative approach to control the networks output We demonstrate the use of our method on StyleGAN2 and BigGAN networks trained on FFHQ and ImageNet respectively.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2510.15778,
  title  = {Controlling the image generation process with parametric activation functions},
  author = {Ilia Pavlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.15778},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC'25

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