Tunable Dual-Objective GANs for Stable Training

Monica Welfert, Kyle Otstot, Gowtham Raghunath Kurri, Lalitha Sankar

Keywords: generative adversarial networks, training instabilities, dual objectives

Abstract: In an effort to address the training instabilities of GANs, we introduce a class of dual-objective GANs with different value functions (objectives) for the generator (G) and discriminator (D). In particular, we model each objective using $\alpha$-loss, a tunable classification loss, to obtain $(\alpha_D,\alpha_G)$-GANs, parameterized by $(\alpha_D,\alpha_G)\in (0,\infty]^2$. For sufficiently large number of samples and capacities for G and D, we show that the resulting non-zero sum game simplifies to minimizing an $f$-divergence under appropriate conditions on $(\alpha_D,\alpha_G)$. We highlight the value of tuning $(\alpha_D,\alpha_G)$ in alleviating training instabilities for the synthetic 2D Gaussian mixture ring, the Celeb-A, and the LSUN Classroom datasets.

Submission Number: 27