Least squares generative adversarial networks

Xudong MAO, Qing LI, Haoran XIE, Yiu Keung Raymond LAU, Zhen WANG, Stephen Paul SMOLLEY

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Abstract

Unsupervised learning with generative adversarial networks (GANs) has proven hugely successful. Regular GANs hypothesize the discriminator as a classifier with the sigmoid cross entropy loss function. However, we found that this loss function may lead to the vanishing gradients problem during the learning process. To overcome such a problem, we propose in this paper the Least Squares Generative Adversarial Networks (LSGANs) which adopt the least squares loss function for the discriminator. We show that minimizing the objective function of LSGAN yields minimizing the Pearson X² divergence. There are two benefits of LSGANs over regular GANs. First, LSGANs are able to generate higher quality images than regular GANs. Second, LSGANs perform more stable during the learning process. We evaluate LSGANs on LSUN and CIFAR-10 datasets and the experimental results show that the images generated by LSGANs are of better quality than the ones generated by regular GANs. We also conduct two comparison experiments between LSGANs and regular GANs to illustrate the stability of LSGANs. Copyright © 2017 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017
Place of PublicationDanvers, MA
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2813-2821
ISBN (Electronic)9781538610329
ISBN (Print)9781538610336
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Citation

Mao, X., Li, Q., Xie, H., Lau, R. Y. K., Wang, Z., & Smolley, S. P. (2017). Least squares generative adversarial networks. In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017 (pp. 2813-2821). Danvers, MA: IEEE.

Keywords

  • Gallium nitride
  • Generators
  • Stability analysis
  • Entropy
  • Linear programming
  • Image resolution

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