Dual Contrastive Loss and Attention for GANs
This work addresses the challenge of generating realistic images for computer vision applications, offering incremental improvements over existing state-of-the-art methods.
The paper tackles the problem of improving image generation quality in GANs, particularly on high-variance datasets, by proposing a dual contrastive loss and attention mechanisms, resulting in at least a 17.5% improvement in FID on benchmark datasets and up to 47.5% on synthetic scenes.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce impressive results on unconditional image generation when powered with large-scale image datasets. Yet generated images are still easy to spot especially on datasets with high variance (e.g. bedroom, church). In this paper, we propose various improvements to further push the boundaries in image generation. Specifically, we propose a novel dual contrastive loss and show that, with this loss, discriminator learns more generalized and distinguishable representations to incentivize generation. In addition, we revisit attention and extensively experiment with different attention blocks in the generator. We find attention to be still an important module for successful image generation even though it was not used in the recent state-of-the-art models. Lastly, we study different attention architectures in the discriminator, and propose a reference attention mechanism. By combining the strengths of these remedies, we improve the compelling state-of-the-art Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) by at least 17.5% on several benchmark datasets. We obtain even more significant improvements on compositional synthetic scenes (up to 47.5% in FID). Code and models are available at https://github.com/ningyu1991/AttentionDualContrastGAN .