{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/ganzzle-reframing-jigsaw-puzzle-solving-as-a","title":"GANzzle: Reframing jigsaw puzzle solving as a retrieval task using a generative mental image","arxiv_id":"2207.05634","date":"2022-07-12","proceeding":null,"authors":["Davide Talon","Alessio Del Bue","Stuart James"],"abstract":"Puzzle solving is a combinatorial challenge due to the difficulty of matching adjacent pieces. Instead, we infer a mental image from all pieces, which a given piece can then be matched against avoiding the combinatorial explosion. Exploiting advancements in Generative Adversarial methods, we learn how to reconstruct the image given a set of unordered pieces, allowing the model to learn a joint embedding space to match an encoding of each piece to the cropped layer of the generator. Therefore we frame the problem as a R@1 retrieval task, and then solve the linear assignment using differentiable Hungarian attention, making the process end-to-end. In doing so our model is puzzle size agnostic, in contrast to prior deep learning methods which are single size. We evaluate on two new large-scale datasets, where our model is on par with deep learning methods, while generalizing to multiple puzzle sizes.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05634v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.05634v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"ganzzle-reframing-jigsaw-puzzle-solving-as-a","repo_url":"https://github.com/iit-pavis/ganzzle","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"deep-learning","task_name":"Deep Learning"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2207.05634","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}