- Most branches get their own noise vector now.
- First attention branch has the intended sole purpose of raw image processing
- Remove norms from joiner block
Some lessons learned:
- Biases are fairly important as a relief valve. They dont need to be everywhere, but
most computationally heavy branches should have a bias.
- GroupNorm in SPSR is not a great idea. Since image gradients are represented
in this model, normal means and standard deviations are not applicable. (imggrad
has a high representation of 0).
- Don't fuck with the mainline of any generative model. As much as possible, all
additions should be done through residual connections. Never pollute the mainline
with reference data, do that in branches. It basically leaves the mode untrainable.
Basically just cleaning up the code, removing some bad conventions,
and reducing complexity somewhat so that I can play around with
this arch a bit more easily.
SPSR_model really isn't that different from SRGAN_model. Rather than continuing to re-implement
everything I've done in SRGAN_model, port the new stuff from SPSR over.
This really demonstrates the need to refactor SRGAN_model a bit to make it cleaner. It is quite the
beast these days..
This is done by pre-training a feature net that predicts the features
of HR images from LR images. Then use the original feature network
and this new one in tandem to work only on LR/Gen images.
The logic is that the discriminator may be incapable of providing a truly
targeted loss for all image regions since it has to be too generic
(basically the same argument for the switched generator). So add some
switches in! See how it works!
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.
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.
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.
