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The weights are random. No attempt has been made to make sure the generated image looks aesthetically pleasing. That's the surprising bit: a random neural netwo
by sherjilozair 10y ago
The weights are random. No attempt has been made to make sure the generated image looks aesthetically pleasing. That's the surprising bit: a random neural network generates good-looking images.
- chestervonwinch 10y ago> That's the surprising bit: a random neural network generates good-looking images. Despite the randomness in the weights, there's structure and coherence imposed by the activation functions and the manner in which activations are combined (the network architecture). There's nothing inherently magical going on: take a rational function with random coefficients and do domain coloring [1], and you'll get something interesting, too. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_coloring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_coloring