生成式对抗网络GAN的研究进展与展望

Generative Adversarial Networks:The State of the Art and Beyond

生成式对抗网络GAN(Generative adversarial networks)目前已经成为人工智能学界一个热门的研究方向.GAN的基本思想源自博弈论的二人零和博弈,由一个生成器和一个判别器构成,通过对抗学习的方式来训练.目的是估测数据样本的潜在分布并生成新的数据样本.在图像和视觉计算、语音和语言处理、信息安全、棋类比赛等领域,GAN正在被广泛研究,具有巨大的应用前景.本文概括了GAN的研究进展,并进行展望.在总结了GAN的背景、理论与实现模型、应用领域、优缺点及发展趋势之后,本文还讨论了GAN与平行智能的关系,认为GAN可以深化平行系统的虚实互动、交互一体的理念,特别是计算实验的思想,为ACP(Artificial societies,computational experiments,and parallel execution)理论提供了十分具体和丰富的算法支持.

Generative adversarial networks（GANs） have become a hot research topic in artificial intelligence. Inspired by the two-player zero-sum game, GAN is composed of a generator and a discriminator, both trained with the adversarial learning mechanism. The aim of GAN is to estimate the potential distribution of existing data and generate new data samples from the same distribution. Since its initiation, GAN has been widely studied due to its enormous prospect for applications, including image and vision computing, speech and language processing, information security, and chess game. In this paper we summarize the state of the art of GAN and look into its future. First of all, we survey the GAN s background, theoretic and implementation models, application fields, advantages and disadvantages, and development trends. Then, we investigate the relation between GAN and parallel intelligence with the conclusion that GAN has a great potential in parallel systems especially in computational experiments, in terms of virtual-real interaction and integration.Finally, we clarify that GAN can provide specific and substantial algorithmic support for the ACP theory.