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Generative adversarial networks: What GANs are and how they’ve evolved
- mellosouls 7y agoAn early (pre-Goodfellow) inventor of the idea, not mentioned in the article but recognised in some histories, including a note in Wikipedia was a non-ML researcher who modestly (he acknowledges he didn't develop it beyond the idea) described his prior claim here: https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/301280 https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/301280
- cma 7y agoAnd from the 1990, Schmidhuber: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/djju8a/d_jurgen_schmidhuber_really_had_gans_in_1990/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/djju8a/d_j...
- mellosouls 7y agoYes - but I didn't mention that one as it's well known (referenced in the OP article) and contentious; part of a history of arguments which - whatever the priority truth - seem as much about big name egos and power cliques (on all sides) than a furtherance of knowledge.
- cma 7y agoYeah the article makes mention but I just noticed it didn't mention how far earlier it was, it just says Goodfellow wasn't the only one to pursue, which could mean Schmidhuber came afterwards.
- l8rpeace 7y agoFor those interested in learning more, a colleague of mine wrote a book (of which all proceeds go to charity, I believe): https://www.amazon.com/GANs-Action-learning-Generative-Adversarial/dp/1617295566 https://www.amazon.com/GANs-Action-learning-Generative-Adver...
- m-p-3 7y agoAnd some modders online uses ESRGAN to "upscale" game textures, which sometimes leads to impressive results https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN
- jsinai 7y agoThis is an impressive and eerie showcase of how realistic GANs can be: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ Sometimes it fails but most of the time the faces generated are uncannily realistic. Make of it what you will. If you’re in London it’s currently in the Design Museum.