The document summarizes key points about generative adversarial networks (GANs):
- GANs use two neural networks, a generator and discriminator, that compete against each other until the generator learns to generate new data that matches the real data distribution.
- The generator generates synthetic data and the discriminator evaluates synthetic data vs real data to calculate a loss function that is used to update the generator.
- Over many iterations, the generator becomes better at fooling the discriminator, meaning it is generating increasingly realistic synthetic data that the discriminator cannot distinguish from real data.
- In practice, the discriminator is trained to maximize the probability of assigning the correct label (real vs generated) while the generator is trained to minimize the