Introduction
Progressive GAN increases resolution layer by layer to improve training stability and image detail. Its high-resolution synthetic portraits become culturally striking, and the work leads into StyleGAN. The node connects an architectural strategy for scaling generation with the changing public visibility of synthetic faces.
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Designing the training process
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Method and contribution
Progressive GAN training begins at low resolution and adds layers to both generator and discriminator. The authors address stability, speed, variation and evaluation. This reorganises the learning process; it is not merely an enlargement of images produced by an already trained model.
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Art-historical interpretation
Editorial interpretation: when high-resolution outputs enter exhibition and collection, surface detail can hide the training process that produced it. This node makes photographic plausibility an engineering outcome to examine, rather than a sufficient measure of artistic value.
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