k-GANs: Ensemble of Generative Models with Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport

L Ambrogioni, U Güçlü, M van Gerven - arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.04050, 2019 - arxiv.org
L Ambrogioni, U Güçlü, M van Gerven
arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.04050, 2019arxiv.org
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are the state of the art in generative modeling.
Unfortunately, most GAN methods are susceptible to mode collapse, meaning that they tend
to capture only a subset of the modes of the true distribution. A possible way of dealing with
this problem is to use an ensemble of GANs, where (ideally) each network models a single
mode. In this paper, we introduce a principled method for training an ensemble of GANs
using semi-discrete optimal transport theory. In our approach, each generative network …
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are the state of the art in generative modeling. Unfortunately, most GAN methods are susceptible to mode collapse, meaning that they tend to capture only a subset of the modes of the true distribution. A possible way of dealing with this problem is to use an ensemble of GANs, where (ideally) each network models a single mode. In this paper, we introduce a principled method for training an ensemble of GANs using semi-discrete optimal transport theory. In our approach, each generative network models the transportation map between a point mass (Dirac measure) and the restriction of the data distribution on a tile of a Voronoi tessellation that is defined by the location of the point masses. We iteratively train the generative networks and the point masses until convergence. The resulting k-GANs algorithm has strong theoretical connection with the k-medoids algorithm. In our experiments, we show that our ensemble method consistently outperforms baseline GANs.
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