Large Scale Adversarial Representation Learning
Abstract
Adversarially trained generative models (GANs) have recently achieved compelling image synthesis results. But despite early successes in using GANs for unsupervised representation learning, they have since been superseded by approaches based on self-supervision. In this work we show that progress in image generation quality translates to substantially improved representation learning performance. Our approach, BigBiGAN, builds upon the state-of-the-art BigGAN model, extending it to representation learning by adding an encoder and modifying the discriminator. We extensively evaluate the representation learning and generation capabilities of these BigBiGAN models, demonstrating that these generation-based models achieve the state of the art in unsupervised representation learning on ImageNet, as well as in unconditional image generation. Pretrained BigBiGAN models -- including image generators and encoders -- are available on TensorFlow Hub (https://tfhub.dev/s?publisher=deepmind&q=bigbigan).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.02544,
title = {Large Scale Adversarial Representation Learning},
author = {Jeff Donahue and Karen Simonyan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.02544},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
32 pages. In proceedings of NeurIPS 2019. This is the camera-ready version of the paper, with supplementary material included as appendices