A Quantitative Measure of Generative Adversarial Network Distributions

Dan Hendrycks*, Steven Basart*

Abstract: We introduce a new measure for evaluating the quality of distributions learned by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). This measure computes the Kullback-Leibler divergence from a GAN-generated image set to a real image set. Since our measure utilizes a GAN's whole distribution, our measure penalizes outputs lacking in diversity, and it contrasts with evaluating GANs based upon a few cherry-picked examples. We demonstrate the measure's efficacy on the MNIST, SVHN, and CIFAR-10 datasets.

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