“Anime Neural Net Graveyard”, Gwern2019-02-04 (Danbooru AI, BigGAN, ProGAN, autoencoder NN; backlinks)⁠:

Post-mortems of failed neural network experiments in generating anime images, pre-StyleGAN/BigGAN.

My experiments in generating anime faces, tried periodically since 2015, succeeded in 2019 with the release of StyleGAN. But for comparison, here are the failures from some of my older GAN or other NN attempts; as the quality is worse than StyleGAN, I won’t bother going into details in these post-mortems—creating the datasets & training the ProGAN & tuning & transfer-learning were all much the same as already outlined at length for the StyleGAN results.

Included are:

• ProGAN

• Glow

• MSG-GAN

• PokeGAN

• Self-Attention-GAN-TensorFlow

• VGAN

• BigGAN unofficial

  • BigGAN-TensorFlow

  • BigGAN-PyTorch

  • (official BigGAN)

• GAN-QP

• WGAN

• IntroVAE

• GAN
  • ProGAN
  • MSG-GAN
  • PokeGAN
  • Self-Attention-GAN-TensorFlow
  • VGAN
  • BigGAN Unofficial
    • BigGAN-TensorFlow
    • BigGAN-PyTorch
  • GAN-QP
  • WGAN
• Normalizing Flow
  • Glow
• VAE
  • IntroVAE

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