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The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN

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Re: The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN

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This is just confusing misuse of the word "relativistic", being based as it is on _relative_ probability and having little to do with philosophical relativism and nothing to do with physics relativity.

Many of the words used by the machine learning community are gratuitously unrelated to what they mean in other fields. If you hear a ML person use a term and you don't know the ML meaning, you probably need to ask for clarification.

Re: The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN

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what 'computer scientist' uses wordpress for their blog. Though, I don't have a blog, so...

Dick Lipton and Ken Regan, for example: https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/

Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

Jeremy Kun: https://jeremykun.com/

Also, although he's a mathematician rather than a computer scientist, there is Terry Tao: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/

Re: The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN

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what 'computer scientist' uses wordpress for their blog. Though, I don't have a blog, so...

Dick Lipton and Ken Regan, for example: https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/ Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ Jeremy Kun: https://jeremykun.com/ Also, although he's a mathematician rather than a computer scientist, there is Terry Tao: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/

Wonder what he thinks (not really) of Rob Pike using blogspot: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/

Re: The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN

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This is just confusing misuse of the word "relativistic", being based as it is on _relative_ probability and having little to do with philosophical relativism and nothing to do with physics relativity.

I agree -- though I'm not sure how to make the right name for this technique. Maybe "relative-probability GAN" is the best.

I also wondered before clicking what a relativistic GAN would be: maybe as the activity of a neuron becomes larger and larger, it becomes harder and harder for it to continue? But that's already true of sigmoidal activation functions.

Re: The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN

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what 'computer scientist' uses wordpress for their blog. Though, I don't have a blog, so...

Busy people are busy, and choosing a 'better' platform or rolling your own site would be a monumental waste of their time.
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