Poster
Are GANs Created Equal? A Large-Scale Study
Mario Lucic · Karol Kurach · Marcin Michalski · Sylvain Gelly · Olivier Bousquet

Tue Dec 4th 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM @ Room 210 #23
in Tue Poster Session A »

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) are a powerful subclass of generative models. Despite a very rich research activity leading to numerous interesting GAN algorithms, it is still very hard to assess which algorithm(s) perform better than others. We conduct a neutral, multi-faceted large-scale empirical study on state-of-the art models and evaluation measures. We find that most models can reach similar scores with enough hyperparameter optimization and random restarts. This suggests that improvements can arise from a higher computational budget and tuning more than fundamental algorithmic changes. To overcome some limitations of the current metrics, we also propose several data sets on which precision and recall can be computed. Our experimental results suggest that future GAN research should be based on more systematic and objective evaluation procedures. Finally, we did not find evidence that any of the tested algorithms consistently outperforms the non-saturating GAN introduced in \cite{goodfellow2014generative}.

Keywords: Computer Vision · Adversarial Networks · Generative Models

Author Information

Mario Lucic (Google Brain)
Karol Kurach (Google Brain)
Marcin Michalski (Google)
Sylvain Gelly (Google Brain (Zurich))
Olivier Bousquet (Google Brain (Zurich))

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