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High-Fidelity Image Generation With Fewer Labels

Machine Learning 2019-05-15 v2 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning

Abstract

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.

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@article{arxiv.1903.02271,
  title  = {High-Fidelity Image Generation With Fewer Labels},
  author = {Mario Lucic and Michael Tschannen and Marvin Ritter and Xiaohua Zhai and Olivier Bachem and Sylvain Gelly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.02271},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

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

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