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Poster
Mon Aug 07 01:30 AM -- 05:00 AM (PDT) @ Gallery #41
Generalization and Equilibrium in Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs)
Sanjeev Arora · Rong Ge · Yingyu Liang · Tengyu Ma · Yi Zhang

It is shown that training of generative adversarial network (GAN) may not have good generalization properties; e.g., training may appear successful but the trained distribution may be far from target distribution in standard metrics. However, generalization does occur for a weaker metric called neural net distance. It is also shown that an approximate pure equilibrium exists in the discriminator/generator game for a natural training objective (Wasserstein) when generator capacity and training set sizes are moderate. This existence of equilibrium inspires MIX+GAN protocol, which can be combined with any existing GAN training, and empirically shown to improve some of them.