They can do a lot of really cool things people have used them for all kinds of things

Things like you know you draw a sketch of a shoe

And it will render you an actual picture of a shoe or a handbag

They're fairly low-resolution right now, but it's very impressive the way that they can produce

real quite good-looking images

You could make a neural network

That's a classifier right you give it lots and lots of pictures of cats and lots and lots of pictures of dogs

and you say you know you present it with a picture of a cat and

It says it outputs a number. Let's say between zero and one

and

Zero represents cats and one represents dogs and so you give it a cat and it puts out one and you say no

That's not right should be zero and you keep training it until eventually it can tell the difference right?

so

somewhere inside that

Network

It's... it must have formed some model of what cats are and what dogs are, at least as far as images of

images of them are concerned

But

That model really... you can only really use it to classify things

You can't say "ok draw me a new cat picture", "draw me a cat picture I haven't seen before"

It doesn't know how to do that so quite often you want a model that can generate new

Samples you have so you give it a bunch of samples from a particular distribution, and you want it to

Give you more samples which are also from that same distribution, so it has to learn the underlying

Structure of what you've given it. And that's kind of tricky, actually.

There's a lot of...

Well there's a lot of challenges involved in that.

Well, let's be honest

I don't think as a human you can find that tricky

You know if... if I know what a cat looks like but, uh, being not the greatest artist in the world

I'm not sure that I could draw you a decent cat. So, you know, that this is not confined to just

Computing is it? This...

Yeah, that's true. That's really true.

but if you take

Let's do like a really simple example of a generative model

say you you give your network one thing

It looks like this.

And then you give it another one you're like these are your training samples looks like this

You give it another one that looks like this, and then...

What are those dots in the systems?

Instances of something on two dimensions?

Yeah, I mean right now, it's literally just data. We just... it doesn't matter what it is

Just some... yeah, these are these are data points

And so these are the things you're giving it, and then it will learn

You can train it. It will learn a model, and the model it might learn is something like this, right?

It's figured out that these dots all lie along a path, and if its model was always to draw a line

Then it could learn by adjusting the parameters of that line

It would move the line around until it found a line that was a good fit, and generally gave you a good prediction.

But then if you were to ask this model:

"Okay, now make me a new one"

unless you did something clever, what you get is probably this, because that is on average

The closest to any of these, because any of these dots you don't know if they're going to be above or below

or, you know, to the left or the right. There's no pattern there. It's kind of random.

So the best place you can go that will minimize your error, is to go just right on the line every time.

But anybody looking at this will say: "well, that's fake"

That's not a plausible example of something from this distribution, even though for a lot of the

like, error functions, that people use when training networks this would perform best, so it's this interesting situation where

There's not just one right answer.

you know, generally speaking the way that neuron networks work is:

you're training them towards a specific you have a label or you have a

you have an output a target output and

You get penalty the further away you are from that output, whereas in in a in an application like this

There's effect... there's basically an infinite number of perfectly valid

Outputs here

But, so, to generate this what you actually need is to take this model and then apply some randomness, you say: "they're all

Within, you know,

They occur randomly and they're normally distributed around this line with this standard deviation" or whatever.

But a lot of models would have a hard time actually

picking one of all of the possibilities

And they would have this tendency to kind of smooth things out and go for the average, whereas we actually just want

"Just pick me one doesn't matter". So that's part of the problem of generating.

Adversarial training is is help is a way of

training

Not just networks, actually, a way of training machine learning systems.

Which

involves focusing on

the system's weaknesses.

So, if you are learning... let's say you're teaching your

Network to recognize handwritten digits.

The normal way you would do that you have your big training sample of labeled samples

You've got an array of pixels that looks like a three and then it's labeled with three and so on.

And the normal way

that you would train a network with this is you would just

Present all of them pretty much at random. You'd present as many ones as two as threes and just keep throwing examples at it

"What's this?", you know, "Yes, you got that right", "no. You've got that wrong, It should really be this".

And keep doing that and the system will eventually learn

but

If you were actually teaching a person to recognize the numbers, if you were teaching a child

you wouldn't do that, like, if you'd been teaching them for a while, presenting them and

You know, getting the response and correcting them and so on, and you noticed that they can do...

you know... with 2 3 4 5 6 8 & 9 they're getting like 70 80 percent

You know, accuracy recognition rate.

But 1 & 7 it's like 50/50, because any time they get a 1 or a 7 they just guess because they can't

Tell the difference between them.

If you noticed that you wouldn't keep training those other numbers, right? You would stop and say:

"Well, You know what? we're just gonna focus on 1 & 7 because this is an issue for you".

"I'm gonna keep showing you Ones and 7s and correcting you until

The error rate on ones and 7s comes down to the error rate that you're getting on your other numbers".

You're focusing the training on the area where the student is failing and

there's kinda of a balance there when you're teaching humans

because if you keep relentlessly focusing on their weaknesses and making them do stuff they can't do all the time

They will just become super discouraged and give up. But neural networks don't have feelings yet, so that's really not an issue.

You can just

continually hammer on the weak points

Find whatever they're having trouble with and focus on that. And so, that behavior,

and I think some people have had teachers where it feels like this,

It feels like an adversary, right? it feels like they want you to fail.

So in fact

you can make them an actual adversary. If you have some process which is genuinely

Doing its best to make the network give as high an error as possible

that will produce this effect where if it spots any weakness it will focus on that and

Thereby force the learner

To learn to not have that weakness anymore. Like one form of adversarial training people sometimes

Do is if you have a game playing program you make it play itself a lot of times

Because all the time. They are trying to look for weaknesses in their opponent and exploit those weaknesses and when they do that

They're forced to then improve or fix those weaknesses in themselves because their opponent is exploiting those weaknesses, so

Every time

the

Every time the system finds a strategy that is extremely good against this opponent

The the opponent, who's also them, has to learn a way of dealing with that strategy. And so on and so on.

So, as the system gets better it forces itself to get better

Because it's continuously having to learn how to play a better and better opponent

It's quite elegant, you know.

This is where we get to generative adversarial. Networks. Let's say

You've got a network you want to...

Let's say you want cat pictures

You know, you want to be able to give it a bunch of pictures of cats and have it

Spit out a new picture of a cat that you've never seen before that looks exactly like a cat

the way that the generative

adversarial network works is it's this architecture where you actually have two networks one of the networks is the discriminator

How's my spelling?

Yeah, like that

The discriminator Network is a classifier right it's a straightforward classifier

You give it an image

And it outputs a number between 0 & 1 and your training that in standard supervised learning way

Then you have a generator and the generator

Is...

Usually a convolutional neural network, although actually both of these can be other processes

But people tend to use in your networks for this.

And the generator, you

give it some random noise, and that's the random,

that's where it gets its source of randomness, so

That it can give multiple answers to the same question effectively.

You give it some random noise and it generates an image

From that noise and the idea is it's supposed to look like a cat

So the way that we do this with a generative adversarial Network is it's this architecture whereby you have two networks

Playing a game

Effectively it's a competitive game. It's adversarial between them and in fact

It's a very similar to the games we talked about in the Alpha go video.

it's a min/max game

Because these two networks are fighting over one number

one of them wants the number to be high one of them wants the number to be low.

And what that number actually is is the error rate of the discriminator?

so

The discriminator

Wants a low error rate the generator wants a high error rate the discriminators job is to look at an image

which could have come from the original data set or

It could have come from the generator and its job is to say yes. This is a real image or no. This is a fake

any outputs a number between 0 & 1 like 1 for its real and 0 for its fake for example and

the generator

Gets fed as its input. Just some random noise and it then generates an image from that and

it's

Reward you know it's training is

Pretty much the inverse of what the discriminator says