Relativistic GAN

Code to replicate all analyses from the paper The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN Discussion at https://ajolicoeur.wordpress.com/RelativisticGAN.

Needed

Python 3.6
Pytorch (Latest from source)
Tensorflow (Latest from source, needed to get FID)
Cat Dataset (http://academictorrents.com/details/c501571c29d16d7f41d159d699d0e7fb37092cbd)

To do beforehand

Change all folders locations in fid_script.sh, stable.sh, unstable.sh, GAN_losses_iter.py, GAN_losses_iter_PAC.py
Make sure that there are existing folders at the locations you used
If you want to use the CAT dataset
- Run setting_up_script.sh in same folder as preprocess_cat_dataset.py and your CAT dataset (open and run manually)
- Move cats folder to your favorite place
- mv cats_bigger_than_64x64 "your_input_folder_64x64"
- mv cats_bigger_than_128x128 "your_input_folder_128x128"
- mv cats_bigger_than_256x256 "your_input_folder_256x256"

To run

To run models
- Use GAN_losses_iter.py (Version you probably will want to use)
- Use GAN_losses_iter_PAC.py (Version with PacGAN-2, to use when there is severe mode collapse only)
To Replicate
- Open stable.sh and run the lines you want
- Open unstable.sh and run the lines you want

Notes

If you just want to generate pictures and you do not care about the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID), you do not need to download Tensorflow.

If you don't want to generate cat, nor get the FID, you can skip ahead and focus entirely on "GAN_losses_iter.py".

Although I always used the same seed (seed = 1), keep in mind that your results may be sightly different. Neural networks are notoriously difficult to perfectly replicate. You never know if something that I changed while working on the paper could have affected the randomness in some of my earlier experiments (I did stable experiments first, then unstable experiments for CIFAR-10, and most recently the unstable experiments for CAT). CUDNN is also said to introduce some randomness and I use it. I forgot to put a seed for the tensorflow FID scripts so FIDs may vary by a 2-3 points, but hopefully they shouldn't change much since I used a very large amount of images for the calculations.