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VEEGAN: Reducing Mode Collapse in GANs using Implicit Variational Learning
Akash Srivastava · Lazar Valkov · Chris Russell · Michael Gutmann · Charles Sutton

Wed Dec 06 06:30 PM -- 10:30 PM (PST) @ Pacific Ballroom #109
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Deep generative models provide powerful tools for distributions over complicated manifolds, such as those of natural images. But many of these methods, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), can be difficult to train, in part because they are prone to mode collapse, which means that they characterize only a few modes of the true distribution. To address this, we introduce VEEGAN, which features a reconstructor network, reversing the action of the generator by mapping from data to noise. Our training objective retains the original asymptotic consistency guarantee of GANs, and can be interpreted as a novel autoencoder loss over the noise. In sharp contrast to a traditional autoencoder over data points, VEEGAN does not require specifying a loss function over the data, but rather only over the representations, which are standard normal by assumption. On an extensive set of synthetic and real world image datasets, VEEGAN indeed resists mode collapsing to a far greater extent than other recent GAN variants, and produces more realistic samples.

Keywords: Variational Inference · Adversarial Networks · Efficient Inference Methods · Latent Variable Models
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Akash Srivastava (University of Edinburgh)
Lazar Valkov (University of Edinburgh)
Chris Russell (The Alan Turing Institute/ The University of Surrey)
Michael Gutmann (University of Edinburgh)
Charles Sutton (Google)

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