Introduction
Conditional GANs supply additional information to both generator and discriminator, offering a general framework for controlled generation. Class-conditioned synthesis, text-to-image GANs and forms of structurally conditioned generation build on this approach. The node concerns the development of conditions that guide what a model generates.
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Conditioning what a generator produces
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Method and contribution
Conditional GANs supply additional information to both generator and discriminator. The paper demonstrates label-conditioned MNIST digits and preliminary image-tagging applications. It establishes a way of directing generation with conditions, rather than already providing the capabilities of later open-ended text-to-image systems.
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Art-historical interpretation
Editorial interpretation: available control depends on how a condition is represented during training. A category, sentence, pose or reference image provides a different kind of direction. Their shared ability to guide generation does not make the resulting creative control equivalent.
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