[Open-to-the-community] HugGAN sprint
HugGAN sprintHi all,Happy to invite you to HugGAN - a community event in which we’ll train and showcasegenerative adversarial networks (GANs for short), taking place fromApril 4th to April 15th. With compute provided byPaperspace(read: GPUs), you can train a GAN on your own data, get to know how they work through several talks by famous generative AI artists, and leverage theecosystem (using tools such asDatasets,Accelerate andSpaces).We’ll be organizing this event onGitHub.What it is aboutThe goal of the event is to make people more familiar with GANs, a type of generative models introduced byGoodfellow et al.in 2014, and showcase them to the community. We hope to add many image datasets and GAN-based models to theHub, and showcase them as aSpace.The main components of the HugGAN sprint consist of:sharing image datasets, useful for training generative models, with the community using thebrand-new(and awesome)ImageFolderandpush_to_hubfeatures. There are already 25+ datasets contributed, includingthis onetraining GANs usingexample scriptsprovided by, or any custom model picked by you, using free computeprovided by Paperspaceget to know how GANs work, through multiple community talks and discussions by famous AI artists (announced soon!)get to know theecosystem through Datasets, Accelerate, using either PyTorch/Kerasshowcasing the magic of a GAN as aSpaceHow does it workParticipants have two weeks to train and showcase cool GANs using compute and tools provided by.All datasets, models and Spaces are uploaded to theHugGAN organizationon the hub.Each demo will be evaluated by the team, giving prizes to the most original ones.During the event, you will have the opportunity to not only get to know GANs, but also how to leverage the tools provided by HuggingFace to make training neural networks a breeze!What do I need to do to participateTo participate, please follow these steps:fill outthis short google formcreate a Hugging Face Hub accounthereif you haven’t already, and join thehuggan organizationjoin our discordhere-when joining the event’s discord channel please make sure to click on theemoji under the first message to access all relevant information.Paperspacekindly offered to provide a limited about of GPUs for participants if needed - if you would like to have access to a GPU, please join the discord for more information.This sprint should be especially interesting to those interested in generative art and using artificial intelligence for creative applications. Your technical skills will help you select the best image dataset, and possibly build the best GAN demo that ever existed.More in-detail information will be announced in the discord channel. We are looking forward to seeing you there!What do I getenjoy a bit of the Hugging Face vibelearn how to build and train GANs, or create generative art in generallearn how to usetools, including Datasets, Accelerate and thepush_to_hubfunctionalityfree compute to build a powerful model and demo it to the communityHugging Face SWAG if you manage to have one of the best and most creative demosteam up and make friends in the discordOpen-sourcely yours,Merve, Nate, Niels, & Omar