Training Generative Adversarial Networks with Adaptive Composite Gradient

Abstract

ABSTRACT The wide applications of Generative adversarial networks benefit from the successful training methods, guaranteeing that an object function converges to the local minimum. Nevertheless, designing an efficient and competitive training method is still a challenging task due to the cyclic behaviors of some gradient-based ways and the expensive computational cost of acquiring the Hessian matrix. To address this problem, we proposed the Adaptive Composite Gradients(ACG) method, linearly convergent in bilinear games under suitable settings. Theory analysis and toy-function experiments both suggest that our approach alleviates the cyclic behaviors and converges faster than recently proposed SOTA algorithms. The convergence speed of the ACG is improved by 33% than other methods. Our ACG method is a novel Semi-Gradient-Free algorithm that can reduce the computational cost of gradient and Hessian by utilizing the predictive information in future iterations. The mixture of Gaussians experiments and real-world digital image generative experiments show that our ACG method outperforms several existing technologies, illustrating the superiority and efficacy of our method.