In this paper we aim to leverage the powerful bottom-up discriminative representations to guide a top-down generative model. We propose a novel generative model named Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks (SGAN), which is trained to invert the hierarchical representations of a discriminative bottom-up deep network. Our model consists of a top-down stack of GANs, each trained to generate "plausible" lower-level representations, conditioned on higher-level representations. A representation discriminator is introduced at each feature hierarchy to encourage the representation manifold of the generator to align with that of the bottom-up discriminative network, providing intermediate supervision. In addition, we introduce a conditional loss that encourages the use of conditional information from the layer above, and a novel entropy loss that maximizes a variational lower bound on the conditional entropy of generator outputs. To the best of our knowledge, the entropy loss is the first attempt to tackle the conditional model collapse problem that is common in conditional GANs. We first train each GAN of the stack independently, and then we train the stack end-to-end. Unlike the original GAN that uses a single noise vector to represent all the variations, our SGAN decomposes variations into multiple levels and gradually resolves uncertainties in the top-down generative process. Experiments demonstrate that SGAN is able to generate diverse and high-quality images, as well as being more interpretable than a vanilla GAN.

本文提出了一种名为 SGAN 的新型生成模型，其利用自底向上的判别网络的分层表示创造了一个自上而下的 GAN 堆栈，对其进行反演。通过引入表示鉴别器和条件损失并使用多个噪声向量，SGAN 能够生成质量更高的图像。

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