Score-Guided Generative Adversarial Networks

We propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) that introduces an evaluator module using pretrained networks. The proposed model, called a score-guided GAN (ScoreGAN), is trained using an evaluation metric for GANs, i.e., the Inception score, as a rough guide for the training of the generator. Using another pretrained network instead of the Inception network, ScoreGAN circumvents overfitting of the Inception network such that the generated samples do not correspond to adversarial examples of the Inception network. In addition, evaluation metrics are employed only in an auxiliary role to prevent overfitting. When evaluated using the CIFAR-10 dataset, ScoreGAN achieved an Inception score of 10.36 ± 0.15, which corresponds to state-of-the-art performance. To generalize the effectiveness of ScoreGAN, the model was evaluated further using another dataset, CIFAR-100. ScoreGAN outperformed other existing methods, achieving a Fréchet Inception distance (FID) of 13.98.