Deep Learning - Unsupervised Learning Part 5

In this last video on unsupervised learning, we introduce some more advanced GAN concepts to avoid mode collapse and strong intra-batch correlation using virtual batch normalization, unrolled GANs, and minibatch discrimination.

Further Reading:
A gentle Introduction to Deep Learning

Links
Link - Variational Autoencoders:
Link - NIPS 2016 GAN Tutorial of Goodfellow
Link - How to train a GAN? Tips and tricks to make GANs work (careful, not
everything is true anymore!)
Link - Ever wondered about how to name your GAN?

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