Three ploys for robust co-generation with generative adversarial nets
Kothapalli, Krishna Harsha Reddy
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Title
Three ploys for robust co-generation with generative adversarial nets
Author(s)
Kothapalli, Krishna Harsha Reddy
Issue Date
2019-04-23
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Schwing, Alexander
Department of Study
Computer Science
Discipline
Computer Science
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
GAN
Cogeneration
Abstract
Generative adversarial nets (GANs) and variational auto-encoders enable accurate modeling of high-dimensional data distributions by forward propagating a sample drawn from a latent space.
However, an often overlooked shortcoming is their inability to find an arbitrary marginal distribution, which is useful for completion of missing data in tasks like super-resolution, image inpainting, etc., where we don’t know the missing part ahead of time. To address such applications it seems intuitive at first to search for that latent space sample which ‘best’ matches the observations. However, irrespective of the GAN loss, unexpected challenges arise: we find that the energy landscape of well trained generators is extremely hard to optimize, exhibiting ‘folds’ that are very hard to overcome. To address this issue, in this thesis, three ploys are proposed which help to address the challenge for all investigated GAN losses and which yield more accurate reconstructions, quantitatively and qualitatively.
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