[mlpack] GSoC '21

[Marcus Edel]

Hello Shah,

happy to provide feedback; everything you proposed in the mail sounds great to me.
My recommendation would be to focus on two tasks for the summer, that could be
StyleGAN and Cycle GANs, or Dual Optimizer and StyleGAN, I guess you know what
I mean.

The program this year is going to be shorter, so we should make sure we don't end
up with a lot of unfinished projects because we run out of time. That said, keep in mind
testing and documentation need time as well, often more time than the actual implementation.

Thanks,
Marcus 


> On 10. Mar 2021, at 19:37, CED18I048 SHAH ANWAAR KHALID <ced18i048 at iiitdm.ac.in> wrote:
> 
> Hello mentors!
> 
> I’m Shah  Anwaar Khalid, currently a 3rd year student at IIITDM, Chennai, India. I’ve been working with mlpack for quite some time, and have been familiarizing myself with the ANN codebase. 
> I wish to spend this summer working with mlpack under GSoC ‘21. I’m particularly interested in working on improving the GAN class of mlpack and I hope to get some suggestions on improving my proposal through this thread. I apologize, in advance, in case this email gets too long.
> 
> After exploring the GAN class for quite some time now, i’ve realized that there are still a lot of open pull requests on GANs that have some pending work. Furthermore, a lot of state of the art GAN models have not yet been implemented. So, in my project I want to finish the pending work in the open pull requests and extend the functionality of GAN class by implementing some of new models that have come up in the last couple of years.
> 
> I’m interested in the following pull requests:
> Dual Optimizer for GANs <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/1888>
> Label smoothing in GANs <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/1915>
> Frechet Inception Distance <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/1939>
> Cycle GANs <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/1497>
> I’m also interested in adding the following GAN models:
> 2. Pix2Pix
> 3. StyleGAN
> 
> 
> I’ve started working on dual optimizer PR and hope to finish it before GSoC. I’ll write a more detailed mail describing the components of Pix2Pix and StyleGAN once I get some feedback on this.
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Shah Anwaar Khalid
> GitHub: hello-fri-end
> 
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