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Poster

Metropolis-Hastings Generative Adversarial Networks

Ryan Turner · Jane Hung · Eric Frank · Yunus Saatchi · Jason Yosinski

Pacific Ballroom #201

Keywords: [ Monte Carlo Methods ] [ Generative Adversarial Networks ]


Abstract:

We introduce the Metropolis-Hastings generative adversarial network (MH-GAN), which combines aspects of Markov chain Monte Carlo and GANs. The MH-GAN draws samples from the distribution implicitly defined by a GAN's discriminator-generator pair, as opposed to standard GANs which draw samples from the distribution defined only by the generator. It uses the discriminator from GAN training to build a wrapper around the generator for improved sampling. With a perfect discriminator, this wrapped generator samples from the true distribution on the data exactly even when the generator is imperfect. We demonstrate the benefits of the improved generator on multiple benchmark datasets, including CIFAR-10 and CelebA, using the DCGAN, WGAN, and progressive GAN.

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