Tero Karras (NVIDIA), Timo Aila (NVIDIA), Samuli Laine (NVIDIA), Jaakko Lehtinen (NVIDIA and Aalto University)
Picture: Two imaginary celebrities that were dreamed up by a random number generator.
Abstract:
We describe a new training methodology for generative adversarial networks. The key idea is to grow both the generator and discriminator progressively: starting from a low resolution, we add new layers that model increasingly fine details as training progresses. This both speeds the training up and greatly stabilizes it, allowing us to produce images of unprecedented quality, e.g., CelebA images at 1024². We also propose a simple way to increase the variation in generated images, and achieve a record inception score of 8.80 in unsupervised CIFAR10. Additionally, we describe several implementation details that are important for discouraging unhealthy competition between the generator and discriminator. Finally, we suggest a new metric for evaluating GAN results, both in terms of image quality and variation. As an additional contribution, we construct a higher-quality version of the CelebA dataset.
- Paper (NVIDIA research)
- Paper (arXiv)
- Result video (YouTube)
- One hour of imaginary celebrities (YouTube)
- Pre-trained networks (Google Drive)
- Datasets (currently unavailable)
The source code is available under the CC BY-NC license:
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We have tested the implementation on the following system:
- NVIDIA DGX-1 with Tesla P100
- BaseOS 2.1.0, 4.4.0-92-generic kernel
- NVIDIA driver 384.81, CUDA Toolkit 9.0
- Python 2.7.11
- Bleeding-edge version of Theano and Lasagne from Oct 17, 2017
We are planning to add support for TensorFlow and multi-GPU in the near future.