Jimenez, F.
, Koepke, A.
, Gregg, M.
and Frey, M.
(2021),
Generative Adversarial Network Performance in Low-Dimensional Settings, Journal of Research (NIST JRES), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://dx.doi.org/10.6028/jres.126.008, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=930944
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Generative Adversarial Network Performance in Low-Dimensional Settings
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A generative adversarial network (GAN) is an artificial neural network with a distinctive training architecture, designed to create examples that faithfully reproduce a target distribution. GANs have recently had particular success in applications involving high-dimensional distributions in areas such as image processing. Little work has been reported for low dimensions, where properties of GANs may be better identified and understood. We studied GAN performance in simulated low-dimensional settings, allowing us to transparently assess effects of target distribution complexity and training data sample size on GAN performance in a simple experiment. This experiment revealed two important forms of GAN error, tail underfilling and bridge bias, where the latter is analogous to the tunneling observed in high-dimensional GANs.Citation
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earth mover distance, experiment protocol, generative adversarial network, mode tunneling, modeling error, target distribution complexity
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