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On gradient regularizers for MMD GANs

NeurIPS 2018 · Optimization › Optimizers · approach: Constrained and non-backprop training · 52 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
add spectral normalization parametrization (ablation)SMMDGAN · CelebA 160x160FID: 18.4±0.2 -> 12.4±0.2Helped
add spectral normalization parametrization (ablation)SMMDGAN · ImageNet 64x64FID: 38.4±0.3 -> 36.6±0.2Helped
add spectral normalization parametrization (ablation)SMMDGAN · CIFAR-10FID: 31.5±0.4 -> 25.0±0.3Helped
replace additive gradient penalty with scaled MMD (SMMD) critic constraintMMDGAN-GP-L2 · CelebA 160x160FID: 20.5±0.2 -> 18.4±0.2Helped
scaled MMD with spectral normalization vs SN-GANSN-GAN · CelebA 160x160FID: 22.6±0.1 -> 12.4±0.2Helped
scaled MMD with spectral normalization vs SN-GANSN-GAN · CIFAR-10FID: 26.7±0.2 -> 25.0±0.3Mixed
scaled MMD with spectral normalization vs SN-GANSN-GAN · ImageNet 64x64FID: 47.5±0.1 -> 36.6±0.2Helped
use Scaled WGAN (linear kernel SMMD) with SN instead of WGAN-GPWGAN-GP · CelebA 160x160FID: 29.2±0.2 -> 14.1±0.2Helped
add spectral normalization alone to WGAN, Sobolev-GAN, MMDGAN without scaled gradient control (ablation)WGAN/Sobolev-GAN/MMDGAN · CelebA, CIFAR-10training stabilityHurt
add learned gamma with gradient and L2 penalty to SN variants (ablation)MMDGAN · CIFAR-10, CelebAsample qualityNo clear effect
increase critic output dimension or change kernel (ablation)SMMD · image generationsample qualityNo clear effect

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