This repository provides a TensorFlow implementation of the Collaborative Sampling in Generative Adversarial Networks.

Once GAN training completes, we use both the generator and the discriminator to produce samples collaboratively. Our sampling scheme consists of one sample proposal step and multiple sample refinement steps. (I) The fixed generator proposes samples. (II) Subsequently, the discriminator provides gradients, with respect to activation maps of the proposed samples, back to a particular layer of the generator. Gradient-based updates of the activation maps are performed repeatedly until the samples are classified as real by the discriminator.

GANs for modelling an imbalanced mixture of 8 Gaussians. Vanilla GANs are prone to mode collapse. The accept-reject sampling algorithms including Discriminator Rejection Sampling (DRS) and Metropolis-Hastings method (MH-GAN) suffer from severe distribution bias due to the mismatch between distribution supports. Our collaborative sampling scheme applied to early terminated GANs succeeds in recovering all modes without compromising sample quality, significantly outperforming the baseline methods.

Real	GAN 1K Iter	GAN 9K Iter	DRS at 1K Iter	MH-GAN at 1K Iter	Refine at 1K Iter	Collab at 1K Iter

Quality	Diversity	Overall

DCGAN for modelling human faces on the CelebA dataset. (Top) Samples from standard sampling. (Middle) Samples from our collaborative sampling method. (Bottom) The difference between the top and the middle row.

Cifar10	CelebA

CycleGAN for unpaired image-to-image translation. (Top) Samples from standard sampling. (Middle) Samples from our collaborative sampling method. (Bottom) The difference between the top and the middle row.

• tensorflow==1.13.0
• CUDA==10.0
• pillow
• scipy=1.2
• matplotlib
• requests
• tqdm

If you use this code for your research, please cite our papers.

@inproceedings{liu2019collaborative,
  title={Collaborative Sampling in Generative Adversarial Networks},
  author={Liu, Yuejiang and Kothari, Parth and Alahi, Alexandre},
  booktitle={Thirty-first AAAI conference on artificial intelligence},
  year={2020}
}

The baseline implementation has been based on this repository