Title: Precise Recovery of Latent Vectors from Generative Adversarial Networks,
Abstract: Generative adversarial networks (GANs) transform latent vectors into visually
plausible images. It is generally thought that the original GAN formulation
gives no out-of-the-box method to reverse the mapping, projecting images back
into latent space. We introduce a simple, gradient-based technique called
stochastic clipping. In experiments, for images generated by the GAN, we
precisely recover their latent vector pre-images 100% of the time. Additional
experiments demonstrate that this method is robust to noise. Finally, we show
that even for unseen images, our method appears to recover unique encodings.