The latest discriminator architecture was already pretty much a unet. This
one makes that official and uses shared layers. It also upsamples one additional
time and throws out the lowest upsampling result.
The intent is to delete the old vgg pixdisc, but I'll keep it around for a bit since
I'm still trying out a few models with it.
- Swap multiple blocks in the image instead of just one. The discriminator was clearly
learning that most blocks have one region that needs to be fixed.
- Relax block size constraints. This was in place to gaurantee that the discriminator
signal was clean. Instead, just downsample the "loss image" with bilinear interpolation.
The result is noisier, but this is actually probably healthy for the discriminator.
Also makes all processing blocks have a conformant signature.
Alters ExpansionBlock to perform a processing conv on the passthrough
before the conjoin operation - this will break backwards compatibilty with SRG2.
Big update to SRG2 architecture to pull in a lot of things that have been learned:
- Use group norm instead of batch norm
- Initialize the weights on the transformations low like is done in RRDB rather than using the scalar. Models live or die by their early stages, and this ones early stage is pretty weak
- Transform multiplexer to use u-net like architecture.
- Just use one set of configuration variables instead of a list - flat networks performed fine in this regard.
- Removed a bunch of unnecessary image loggers. These were just consuming space and never being viewed
- Got rid of support of artificial var_ref support. The new pixdisc is what i wanted to implement then - it's much better.
- Add pixgan GAN mechanism. This is purpose-built for the pixdisc. It is intended to promote a healthy discriminator
- Megabatchfactor was applied twice on metrics, fixed that
Adds pix_gan (untested) which swaps a portion of the fake and real image with each other, then expects the discriminator
to properly discriminate the swapped regions.
Let the Generator get to a point where it is at least competing with the discriminator before firing off.
Backwards from most GAN architectures, but this one is a bit different from most.
Relu produced good performance gains over LeakyRelu, but
GAN performance degraded significantly. Try SiLU as an alternative
to see if it's the leaky-ness we are looking for or the smooth activation
curvature.
