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Arjovsky, Chintala and Bottou publish Wasserstein GAN on arXiv

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Wasserstein GAN released on arXiv

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Redefined the instability of GAN training as a problem of the distance function

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07875

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