badabummbadabing t1_is4vg29 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 9:39 AM

GANs may be losing some ground to diffusion models in generative tasks, but the idea of playing an adversarial game with a learnable loss function is more general than generating pretty pictures.

SleekEagle t1_is6a5ce wrote on October 13, 2022 at 4:41 PM

Exactly! While they might be losing out in specific applications, the concept itself is still very valuable imo

BrotherAmazing t1_is8rh9t wrote on October 14, 2022 at 3:01 AM

I agree with the assessment of adversarial games and their wide ranging utility, but to be fair, diffusion models can be applied to many tasks in which one requires a generative model; i.e., they’re useful in a much more wide ranging set of applications than just “generating pretty pictures”.