Recent progress in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has shown promising signs of improving GAN training via architectural change. Despite some early success, at present the design of GAN architectures requires human expertise, laborious trial-and-error testings, and often draws inspiration from its image classification counterpart. In the current paper, we present the first neural architecture search algorithm, automated neural architecture search for deep generative models, or AGAN for abbreviation, that is specifically suited for GAN training. For unsupervised image generation tasks on CIFAR-10, our algorithm finds architecture that outperforms state-of-the-art models under same regularization techniques. For supervised tasks, the automatically searched architectures also achieve highly competitive performance, outperforming best human-invented architectures at resolution $32\times32$. Moreover, we empirically demonstrate that the modules learned by AGAN are transferable to other image generation tasks such as STL-10.

本文提出了第一个专为GAN训练而设计的神经架构搜索算法AGAN。通过AGAN在CIFAR-10数据集上的实验证明，该算法可以自动搜索到优于同一正则化技术下现有最先进模型的神经网络结构。在$32	imes32$的分辨率下，该算法自动搜索的网络结构的表现也能够胜任监督学习任务，并且在其它图像生成任务中可进行迁移学习。

AGAN: 自动设计生成对抗网络