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The Numerics of GANs

NeurIPS 2017 · Optimization › Optimizers · approach: Constrained and non-backprop training · 175 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Add consensus regularization to both playersSimultaneous gradient ascent GAN training · Mixture of 8 GaussiansConvergenceHelped
Add consensus regularization to both playersDC-GAN · CIFAR-10Inception scoreHelped
Add consensus regularization to both playersDC-GAN without batch normalization · CIFAR-10Training stabilityHelped
Add consensus regularization to both playersDC-GAN-like GAN · CelebATraining stabilityHelped
Add consensus regularization to both playersGAN with 4 convolutional layers · CIFAR-10Inception scoreHelped
Add consensus regularization to both playersDC-GAN without batch normalization and with constant-width layers · GAN architectures tested in supplementary experimentsTraining successHelped
Use consensus regularization with different divergence objectivesDC-GAN without batch normalization and with constant-width layers · Standard GAN, Jensen-Shannon, and indicator divergencesTraining successHelped
Remove consensus regularization from the generator objective while retaining it for the discriminator (ablation)Consensus optimization (smoothing optimizer) · DC-GAN architecturesTraining performanceHurt
Use discriminator-only consensus regularization (ablation)Consensus optimization (smoothing optimizer) · DC-GAN with batch normalizationTraining successMixed
Use discriminator-only consensus regularization (ablation)Consensus optimization (smoothing optimizer) · DC-GAN with constant-width layersTraining successHurt
Add batch normalization to the standard DC-GAN architecture (ablation)Consensus optimization · Standard DC-GANTraining successHurt
Replace simultaneous gradient ascent with consensus optimizationGAN with additional RESNET layers · CIFAR-10Visual sample qualityHelped

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