[Website demonstrating samples from a modified StyleGAN2 trained on Danbooru2019 using TRC TPUs for ~5m iterations for ~2 months on a TPUv3-32 pod; this modified ‘StyleGAN2-ext’, removes various regularizations which make StyleGAN2 data-efficient on datasets like FFHQ, but hobble its ability to model complicated images, and scales the model up >2×. This is surprisingly effective given StyleGAN’s previous inability to approach BigGAN’s Danbooru2019, and TADNE shows off the entertaining results.
The interface reuses Said Achmiz’s These Waifus Do Not Exist grid UI.
Writeup; see also: Colab notebook to search by CLIP embedding; “This Waifu Does Not Exist” (TWDNE)/“This Fursona Does Not Exist” (TFDNE)/“This Pony Does Not Exist” (TPDNE), TADNE face editing, CLIP=guided ponies]
