Have you got all the pieces? We're ready to go, right? WRONG! We need to understand the best a strategy for how we can train this type of architecture.
Training
How to do it...
The GAN model relies on so-called adversarial training. You'll notice in the following diagram that there are two seemingly conflicting error functions being minimized/maximized.
How it works...
We've talked about the MiniMax problem at work here. By sampling two mini-batches at every epoch, the GAN architecture is able to simultaneously maximize the error to the generator and minimize the error to the discriminator:
Architecture diagram updated to show the backpropagation step in training the GAN model
In each chapter, we'll revisit what it means to train a GAN. Generative models are notoriously difficult to train to get good results. GANs are no different in this respect. There are tips and tricks that you will learn throughout this book in order to get your models to converge and produce results.
