Alias-Free Generative Adversarial Networks

We observe that despite their hierarchical convolutional nature, the synthesis process of typical generative adversarial networks depends on absolute pixel coordinates in an unhealthy manner. The resulting networks match the FID of StyleGAN2 but differ dramatically in their internal representations, and they are fully equivariant to translation and rotation even at subpixel scales.

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• 1 This manifests itself as, e.g., detail appearing to be glued to image coordinates instead of the surfaces of depicted objects.
• 2 We trace the root cause to careless signal processing that causes aliasing in the generator network.
• 3 Interpreting all signals in the network as continuous, we derive generally applicable, small architectural changes that guarantee that unwanted information cannot leak into the hierarchical synthesis process.

This research advances how AI systems learn, reason, and solve problems — with direct implications for automation and scientific discovery.

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