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Regularizing Generative Adversarial Networks under Limited Data

Machine Learning 2021-04-08 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the rapid progress of generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, the success of the GAN models hinges on a large amount of training data. This work proposes a regularization approach for training robust GAN models on limited data. We theoretically show a connection between the regularized loss and an f-divergence called LeCam-divergence, which we find is more robust under limited training data. Extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed regularization scheme 1) improves the generalization performance and stabilizes the learning dynamics of GAN models under limited training data, and 2) complements the recent data augmentation methods. These properties facilitate training GAN models to achieve state-of-the-art performance when only limited training data of the ImageNet benchmark is available.

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@article{arxiv.2104.03310,
  title  = {Regularizing Generative Adversarial Networks under Limited Data},
  author = {Hung-Yu Tseng and Lu Jiang and Ce Liu and Ming-Hsuan Yang and Weilong Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03310},
  year   = {2021}
}

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CVPR 2021. Project Page: https://hytseng0509.github.io/lecam-gan Code: https://github.com/google/lecam-gan

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