UGC: Unified GAN Compression for Efficient Image-to-Image Translation
Yuxi Ren Jie Wu Peng Zhang Manlin Zhang Xuefeng Xiao Qian He Rui Wang Min Zheng Xin Pan
Recent years have witnessed the prevailing progress of Generative Adversarial
Networks (GANs) in image-to-image translation. However, the success of these
GAN models hinges on ponderous computational costs and labor-expensive training
data. Current efficient GAN learning techniques often fall into two orthogonal
aspects: i) model slimming via reduced calculation costs;
ii)data/label-efficient learning with fewer training data/labels. To combine
the best of both worlds, we propose a new learning paradigm, Unified GAN
Compression (UGC), with a unified optimization objective to seamlessly prompt
the synergy of model-efficient and label-efficient learning. UGC sets up
semi-supervised-driven network architecture search and adaptive online
semi-supervised distillation stages sequentially, which formulates a
heterogeneous mutual learning scheme to obtain an architecture-flexible,
label-efficient, and performance-excellent model.