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Mode Regularized Generative Adversarial Networks

Machine Learning 2017-03-03 v5 Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Neural and Evolutionary Computing

Abstract

Although Generative Adversarial Networks achieve state-of-the-art results on a variety of generative tasks, they are regarded as highly unstable and prone to miss modes. We argue that these bad behaviors of GANs are due to the very particular functional shape of the trained discriminators in high dimensional spaces, which can easily make training stuck or push probability mass in the wrong direction, towards that of higher concentration than that of the data generating distribution. We introduce several ways of regularizing the objective, which can dramatically stabilize the training of GAN models. We also show that our regularizers can help the fair distribution of probability mass across the modes of the data generating distribution, during the early phases of training and thus providing a unified solution to the missing modes problem.

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@article{arxiv.1612.02136,
  title  = {Mode Regularized Generative Adversarial Networks},
  author = {Tong Che and Yanran Li and Athul Paul Jacob and Yoshua Bengio and Wenjie Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02136},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Published as a conference paper at ICLR 2017

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