On gradient regularizers for MMD GANs

We propose a principled method for gradient-based regularization of the critic of GAN-like models trained by adversarially optimizing the kernel of a Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). We show that controlling the gradient of the critic is vital to having a sensible loss function, and devise a method to enforce exact, analytical gradient constraints at no additional cost compared to existing approximate techniques based on additive regularizers. The new loss function is provably continuous, and experiments show that it stabilizes and accelerates training, giving image generation models that outperform state-of-the art methods on $160 \times 160$ CelebA and $64 \times 64$ unconditional ImageNet.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Image Generation CIFAR-10 SN-SMMDGAN Inception score 7.3 # 62
FID 25.0 # 129

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