Since their inception in 2014, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have rapidly emerged as powerful tools for generating realistic and diverse data across various domains, including computer vision and other applied areas. Consisting of a discriminative network and a generative network engaged in a Minimax game, GANs have revolutionized the field of generative modeling. In February 2018, GAN secured the leading spot on the ``Top Ten Global Breakthrough Technologies List'' issued by the Massachusetts Science and Technology Review. Over the years, numerous advancements have been proposed, leading to a rich array of GAN variants, such as conditional GAN, Wasserstein GAN, CycleGAN, and StyleGAN, among many others. This survey aims to provide a general overview of GANs, summarizing the latent architecture, validation metrics, and application areas of the most widely recognized variants. We also delve into recent theoretical developments, exploring the profound connection between the adversarial principle underlying GAN and Jensen-Shannon divergence, while discussing the optimality characteristics of the GAN framework. The efficiency of GAN variants and their model architectures will be evaluated along with training obstacles as well as training solutions. In addition, a detailed discussion will be provided, examining the integration of GANs with newly developed deep learning frameworks such as Transformers, Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Large Language models, and Diffusion models. Finally, we reveal several issues as well as future research outlines in this field.

生成对抗网络（GANs）是在多个领域中生成逼真、多样化数据的强大工具。本研究综述了GANs的潜在架构、验证指标和应用领域，并探讨了GAN与Jensen-Shannon散度之间的深刻联系以及GAN框架的最优性特征。对GAN变体的效率、模型架构以及训练障碍和解决方案进行了评估，并详细讨论了GAN与Transformer、物理信息神经网络、大型语言模型和扩散模型等新开发的深度学习框架的整合。最后，揭示了该领域的若干问题和未来研究方向。

生成对抗网络 (GANs) 的十年：最新技术综述