Title
BourGAN: Generative Networks with Metric Embeddings.
Abstract
This paper addresses the mode collapse for generative adversarial networks (GANs). We view modes as a geometric structure of data distribution in a metric space. Under this geometric lens, we embed subsamples of the dataset from an arbitrary metric space into the l(2) space, while preserving their pairwise distance distribution. Not only does this metric embedding determine the dimensionality of the latent space automatically, it also enables us to construct a mixture of Gaussians to draw latent space random vectors. We use the Gaussian mixture model in tandem with a simple augmentation of the objective function to train GANs. Every major step of our method is supported by theoretical analysis, and our experiments on real and synthetic data confirm that the generator is able to produce samples spreading over most of the modes while avoiding unwanted samples, outperforming several recent GAN variants on a number of metrics and offering new features.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 31 (NIPS 2018)
generative adversarial networks,data distribution,objective function,geometric structure,gaussian mixture model,metric embedding,mixture of gaussians,synthetic data,k-means clustering
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
31
1049-5258
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
23
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chang Xiao1114.00
Peilin Zhong29910.36
Changxi Zheng357137.17