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Poster
Wed Aug 09 01:30 AM -- 05:00 AM (PDT) @ Gallery #89
Adversarial Feature Matching for Text Generation
Yizhe Zhang · Zhe Gan · Kai Fan · Zhi Chen · Ricardo Henao · Dinghan Shen · Lawrence Carin

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has achieved great success in generating realistic (real-valued) synthetic data. However, convergence issues and difficulties dealing with discrete data hinder the applicability of GAN to text. We propose a framework for generating realistic text via adversarial training. We employ a long short-term memory network as generator, and a convolutional network as discriminator. Instead of using the standard objective of GAN, we propose matching the high-dimensional latent feature distributions of real and synthetic sentences, via a kernelized discrepancy metric. This eases adversarial training by alleviating the mode-collapsing problem. Our experiments show superior performance in quantitative evaluation, and demonstrate that our model can generate realistic-looking sentences.