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Hands-On Generative Adversarial Networks with Keras

By : Rafael Valle
Book Image

Hands-On Generative Adversarial Networks with Keras

By: Rafael Valle

Overview of this book

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have revolutionized the fields of machine learning and deep learning. This book will be your first step toward understanding GAN architectures and tackling the challenges involved in training them. This book opens with an introduction to deep learning and generative models and their applications in artificial intelligence (AI). You will then learn how to build, evaluate, and improve your first GAN with the help of easy-to-follow examples. The next few chapters will guide you through training a GAN model to produce and improve high-resolution images. You will also learn how to implement conditional GANs that enable you to control characteristics of GAN output. You will build on your knowledge further by exploring a new training methodology for progressive growing of GANs. Moving on, you'll gain insights into state-of-the-art models in image synthesis, speech enhancement, and natural language generation using GANs. In addition to this, you'll be able to identify GAN samples with TequilaGAN. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the latest advancements in the GAN framework using various examples and datasets, and you will have developed the skills you need to implement GAN architectures for several tasks and domains, including computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and audio processing. Foreword by Ting-Chun Wang, Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup
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Section 2: Training GANs
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Section 3: Application of GANs in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Audio

GAN algorithms and loss functions

Similar to tricks for training neural networks, there are a few sources that provide best practices for training generative adversarial networks. These best practices were mainly developed to circumvent the difficulty in training GANs using the objective function described in 2.4. Note that these tricks might not apply nor be necessary to other GAN formulations such as LSGAN or WGAN.

Some of the problems associated with the original GAN objective function seem to have been addressed with the development of relativistic loss functions like the Least-Squares GAN (LSGAN) and the Wasserstein GAN (WGAN).

We present these different algorithms and loss functions, recommending that you study them in tandem with Google's recent research in Are GANs Created Equal. In this paper, while referring to different GAN loss functions and algorithms, the authors...