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TinyGAN: Distilling BigGAN for Conditional Image Generation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2020-09-30 v1

Abstract

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a powerful approach for generative image modeling. However, GANs are notorious for their training instability, especially on large-scale, complex datasets. While the recent work of BigGAN has significantly improved the quality of image generation on ImageNet, it requires a huge model, making it hard to deploy on resource-constrained devices. To reduce the model size, we propose a black-box knowledge distillation framework for compressing GANs, which highlights a stable and efficient training process. Given BigGAN as the teacher network, we manage to train a much smaller student network to mimic its functionality, achieving competitive performance on Inception and FID scores with the generator having 16×16\times fewer parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2009.13829,
  title  = {TinyGAN: Distilling BigGAN for Conditional Image Generation},
  author = {Ting-Yun Chang and Chi-Jen Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.13829},
  year   = {2020}
}

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accepted by ACCV 2020

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