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CGE-GAN: Contrastive-guided evolutionary generative adversarial networks with dynamic adaptive weight sharing.

Kashif Iqbal1, Xue Yu2, Atifa Rafique1

  • 1School of Computer, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, No.219, Ningliu Road, Nanjing, 210044, Jiangsu, China.

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Contrastive-guided evolutionary GANs (CGE-GANs) improve image generation by enhancing semantic alignment and training efficiency. This novel method achieves high-fidelity outputs with reduced computational cost.

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Contrastive learningEvolutionary algorithmsGenerative adversarial networks (GANs)Image synthesisKnowledge distillation

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Area of Science:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Generative adversarial networks (GANs) excel at image synthesis but struggle with mode collapse, training instability, and architecture search.
  • Existing evolutionary GANs lack semantic alignment, effective weight reuse, and knowledge transfer between generations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce contrastive-guided evolutionary GANs (CGE-GANs) for stable, high-fidelity image generation.
  • To address limitations of current GANs, including semantic alignment and training efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a hybrid Wasserstein-Contrastive loss function for semantic alignment and adversarial competitiveness.
  • Incorporated dynamic adaptive weight sharing (DAWS) for efficient training.
  • Utilized knowledge distillation-based crossover for feature preservation across generations.

Main Results:

  • CGE-GAN achieved an Inception Score (IS) of 8.99 (CIFAR-10) and 10.46 (STL-10).
  • Achieved a Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) of 9.74 (CIFAR-10) and 21.86 (STL-10).
  • Reduced FID by up to 1.74 points compared to baselines with only 0.36 GPU days.

Conclusions:

  • Contrastive-driven evolution is effective for stable, high-fidelity image generation.
  • CGE-GAN demonstrates superior performance in semantic diversity and convergence efficiency.
  • The proposed method offers a promising direction for advancing GANs.