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Truncation Trick

136 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Marco Marchesi in Megapixel Size Image Creation using Generative Adversarial Networks

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

The Truncation Trick is a latent sampling procedure for generative adversarial networks, where we sample z from a truncated normal (where values which fall outside a range are resampled to fall inside that range). The original implementation was in Megapixel Size Image Creation with GAN. In BigGAN, the authors find this provides a boost to the Inception Score and FID.

PaperSourceSee Code · ajbrock/BigGAN-PyTorch

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

20 shown of 142 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Image Generation39
Conditional Image Generation15
Generative Adversarial Network11
reinforcement-learning9
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning7
Reinforcement Learning7
Data Augmentation6
Reinforcement Learning (RL)6
Super-Resolution6
Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction6
Decision Making5
Unconditional Image Generation5
Attribute4
Clustering4
Denoising4
Diversity4
Object4
Transfer Learning4
Benchmarking3
Decoder3

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Truncation Trick: 2017 to 2024, peak 38 38 0 2017: 1 paper 2017 2018: 2 papers 2018 2019: 9 papers 2019 2020: 28 papers 2020 2021: 21 papers 2021 2022: 35 papers 2022 2023: 38 papers 2023 2024: 2 papers 2024
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (136 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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