KG-GAN: Knowledge-Guided Generative Adversarial Networks

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn to mimic training data that represents the underlying true data distribution. However, GANs suffer when the training data lacks quantity or diversity and therefore cannot represent the underlying distribution well. To improve the performance of GANs trained on under-represented training data distributions, this paper proposes KG-GAN to fuse domain knowledge with the GAN framework. KG-GAN trains two generators; one learns from data while the other learns from knowledge. To achieve KG-GAN, domain knowledge is formulated as a constraint function to guide the learning of the second generator. We validate our framework on two tasks: fine-grained image generation and hair recoloring. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of KG-GAN.

Distributed Layer-Partitioned Training for Privacy-Preserved Deep Learning

Deep Learning techniques have achieved remarkable results in many domains. Often, training deep learning models requires large datasets, which may require sensitive information to be uploaded to the cloud to accelerate training. To adequately protect sensitive information, we propose distributed layer-partitioned training with step-wise activation functions for privacy-preserving deep learning. Experimental results attest our method to be simple and effective.