Beautiful. I am reminded of a paper I was inspired by a long time ago [0], (okay it's 2018 so I guess just 8 years ago, but it feels like longer, from the befo

Beautiful. I am reminded of a paper I was inspired by a long time ago [0], (okay it's 2018 so I guess just 8 years ago, but it feels like longer, from the before-times), that demonstrated learning brush strokes. At the time there was already a lot of work on GANs, but these are pixel-based methods, and I was really interested in the idea of how to derive descriptive methods of scene generation/understanding. I found this work really interesting because it combined RL and GAN techniques in a creative way. I miss that kind of research. Now of course VLMs have shown that you can mix modalities in generalized sequence-to-sequence problems and it doesn't surprise me that this kind of thing is possible, but it's so nice to see it done well using modern techniques. [0] https://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/ganin18a.html https://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/ganin18a.html