Reliable Fidelity and Diversity Metrics for Generative Models (ICML 2020)

Paper: Reliable Fidelity and Diversity Metrics for Generative Models

Muhammad Ferjad Naeem ^1,3*, Seong Joon Oh^2*, Yunjey Choi¹, Youngjung Uh¹, Jaejun Yoo^1,4

_{Work done at Clova AI Research}

_{* Equal contribution} ¹ _{Clova AI Research, NAVER Corp.} ² _{Clova AI Research, LINE Plus Corp.} ³ _{Technische Universität München} ⁴ _EPFL

Devising indicative evaluation metrics for the image generation task remains an open problem. The most widely used metric for measuring the similarity between real and generated images has been the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) score. Because it does not differentiate the fidelity and diversity aspects of the generated images, recent papers have introduced variants of precision and recall metrics to diagnose those properties separately. In this paper, we show that even the latest version of the precision and recall (Kynkäänniemi et al., 2019) metrics are not reliable yet. For example, they fail to detect the match between two identical distributions, they are not robust against outliers, and the evaluation hyperparameters are selected arbitrarily. We propose density and coverage metrics that solve the above issues. We analytically and experimentally show that density and coverage provide more interpretable and reliable signals for practitioners than the existing metrics.

Updates

• 1 June 2020: Paper accepted at ICML 2020.

1. Background

Precision and recall metrics

Precision and recall are defined below:

where the manifold is the defined as

is the ball around the point x with radius r.

is the distance to the kth-nearest neighbour.

Density and coverage metrics

Density and coverage are defined below:

Why are DC better than PR?

Precision versus Density. Because of the real outlier sample, the manifold is overestimated. Generating many fake samples around the real outlier is enough to increase the precision measure. The problem of overestimating precision (100%) is resolved using the density estimate (60%).

Recall versus Coverage. The real and fake samples are identical across left and right. Since models often generate many unrealistic yet diverse samples, the fake manifold is often an overestimation of the true fake distribution. In the figure above, while the fake samples are generally far from the modes in real samples, the recall measure is rewarded by the fact that real samples are contained in the overestimated fake manifold.

2. Usage

Installation

pip3 install prdc

Example

Test 10000 real and fake samples form the standard normal distribution N(0,I) in 1000-dimensional Euclidean space. Set the nearest neighbour k=5. We compute precision, recall, density, and coverage estimates below.

import numpy as np
from prdc import compute_prdc


num_real_samples = num_fake_samples = 10000
feature_dim = 1000
nearest_k = 5
real_features = np.random.normal(loc=0.0, scale=1.0,
                                 size=[num_real_samples, feature_dim])

fake_features = np.random.normal(loc=0.0, scale=1.0,
                                 size=[num_fake_samples, feature_dim])

metrics = compute_prdc(real_features=real_features,
                       fake_features=fake_features,
                       nearest_k=nearest_k)

print(metrics)

Above test code will result in the following estimates (may fluctuate due to randomness).

{'precision': 0.4772,
 'recall': 0.4705,
 'density': 1.0555,
 'coverage': 0.9735}

3. Miscellaneous

References

Kynkäänniemi et al., 2019. Improved precision and recall metric for assessing generative models. Neurips 2019.

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Cite this work

@article{ferjad2020icml,
  title = {Reliable Fidelity and Diversity Metrics for Generative Models},
  author = {Naeem, Muhammad Ferjad and Oh, Seong Joon and Uh, Youngjung and Choi, Yunjey and Yoo, Jaejun},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
}