Advanced GAN techniques
Chapter 1: GAN Foundations Revisited
The Generator-Discriminator Architecture
The Minimax Objective Function
Common Training Instabilities
Limitations of Vanilla GANs
Deep Convolutional GANs (DCGANs) Refresher
Chapter 2: Advanced GAN Architectures
Progressive Growing of GANs (ProGAN)
Style-Based Generator Architecture (StyleGAN)
StyleGAN2 Enhancements
Large Scale GAN Training (BigGAN)
Self-Attention Mechanisms in GANs
Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation (CycleGAN)
Implementing StyleGAN Components: Hands-on Practical
Chapter 3: GAN Training Dynamics and Stabilization
The Challenge of Non-Convergence
Mode Collapse: Causes and Consequences
Alternative Divergences: Wasserstein Distance
Weight Clipping in WGAN
Gradient Penalty (WGAN-GP)
Spectral Normalization
Two Time-Scale Update Rule (TTUR)
Relativistic GANs
Implementing WGAN-GP: Practice
Chapter 4: Conditional and Controllable Generation
Introduction to Conditional GANs (cGANs)
Architectures for cGANs
Information Maximizing GANs (InfoGAN)
StackGAN: Text-to-Image Synthesis
Controlling Attributes via Latent Space Manipulation
Disentanglement Metrics and Challenges
Building a Conditional GAN: Hands-on Practical
Chapter 5: Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of GANs
Challenges in Evaluating Generative Models
Qualitative Assessment: Visual Turing Tests
Inception Score (IS): Formulation and Limitations
Fréchet Inception Distance (FID): Formulation
Interpreting FID Scores
Precision and Recall for Distributions
Perceptual Path Length (PPL)
Calculating FID Score: Practice
Chapter 6: GANs Beyond Standard Image Generation
Challenges with Discrete Data: Text Generation
Reinforcement Learning Approaches (SeqGAN, RankGAN)
Continuous Approximations (Gumbel-Softmax)
Audio Synthesis with GANs (WaveGAN, SpecGAN)
Video Generation and Prediction
3D Data Generation (Point Clouds, Meshes)
Graph Generation with GANs
Chapter 7: Implementation, Optimization, and Tooling
Choosing Deep Learning Frameworks
Advanced Optimizers (AdamW, Lookahead)
Hyperparameter Tuning Strategies
Weight Initialization Techniques
Debugging Unstable GAN Training
Mixed Precision Training
Distributed Training Strategies for Large GANs
Profiling and Performance Optimization
Optimizing a GAN Implementation: Practice
Audio Synthesis with GANs (WaveGAN, SpecGAN)
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- Adversarial Audio Synthesis, Chris Donahue, Julian McAuley, Miller Puckette, 2019 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1802.04208 - Introduces WaveGAN, a seminal model for direct raw audio waveform synthesis using 1D convolutional GANs, addressing challenges with phase shuffle.
- Improved Training of Wasserstein GANs, Ishaan Gulrajani, Faruk Ahmed, Martin Arjovsky, Vincent Dumoulin, Aaron C. Courville, 2017 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vol. 30 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1704.00028 - Presents the Wasserstein GAN with Gradient Penalty, a robust and widely adopted technique for stabilizing GAN training, especially relevant for models like WaveGAN.
- MelGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Conditional Waveform Synthesis, Kundan Kumar, Rithesh Kumar, Thibault de Boissiere, Lucas Gestin, Wei Zhen Teoh, Jose Sotelo, Alexandre de Brebisson, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, 2019 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vol. 32 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1910.06711 - Introduces a fast and high-fidelity GAN-based vocoder for converting mel-spectrograms into raw audio, crucial for the quality of spectrogram-based audio synthesis methods.