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WaveNet2 is not a GAN, and describing it as a "variant of GANs" is like calling Python a variant of Java: it's highly misleading (WaveNet2 and GANs are both gen
by argonaut 9y ago
WaveNet2 is not a GAN, and describing it as a "variant of GANs" is like calling Python a variant of Java: it's highly misleading (WaveNet2 and GANs are both generative models, Python and Java are both programming languages).
Also WaveNet2 makes no improvements in the actual quality of the model, only the run-time performance.
- chillee 9y agoYep, from the paper: > It is worth noting the parallels to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs [7]), with the student playing the role of generator, and the teacher playing the role of discriminator. As opposed to GANs, however, the student is not attempting to fool the teacher in an adversarial manner; rather it cooperates by attempting to match the teacher’s probabilities. Furthermore the teacher is held constant, rather than being trained in tandem with the student, and both models yield tractable normalised distributions. WaveNet2's main resemblance to a GAN is that it uses another neural network for the loss function.