Improved Training of Wasserstein GANs
Ishaan Gulrajani, Faruk Ahmed, Martin Arjovsky, Vincent Dumoulin, Aaron C. Courville
Abstract
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful generative models, but suffer from training instability. The recently proposed Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) makes progress toward stable training of GANs, but sometimes can still generate only poor samples or fail to converge. We find that these problems are often due to the use of weight clipping in WGAN to enforce a Lipschitz constraint on the critic, which can lead to undesired behavior. We propose an alternative to clipping weights: penalize the norm of gradient of the critic with respect to its input. Our proposed method performs better than standard WGAN and enables stable training of a wide variety of GAN architectures with almost no hyperparameter tuning, including 101-layer ResNets and language models with continuous generators. We also achieve high quality generations on CIFAR-10 and LSUN bedrooms.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{NIPS2017_892c3b1c,
author = {Gulrajani, Ishaan and Ahmed, Faruk and Arjovsky, Martin and Dumoulin, Vincent and Courville, Aaron C},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
editor = {I. Guyon and U. Von Luxburg and S. Bengio and H. Wallach and R. Fergus and S. Vishwanathan and R. Garnett},
pages = {},
publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
title = {Improved Training of Wasserstein GANs},
url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2017/file/892c3b1c6dccd52936e27cbd0ff683d6-Paper.pdf},
volume = {30},
year = {2017}
}