Title: AdaGAN: Boosting Generative Models,
Abstract: Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) (Goodfellow et al., 2014) are an
effective method for training generative models of complex data such as natural
images. However, they are notoriously hard to train and can suffer from the
problem of missing modes where the model is not able to produce examples in
certain regions of the space. We propose an iterative procedure, called AdaGAN,
where at every step we add a new component into a mixture model by running a
GAN algorithm on a reweighted sample. This is inspired by boosting algorithms,
where many potentially weak individual predictors are greedily aggregated to
form a strong composite predictor. We prove that such an incremental procedure
leads to convergence to the true distribution in a finite number of steps if
each step is optimal, and convergence at an exponential rate otherwise. We also
illustrate experimentally that this procedure addresses the problem of missing
modes.