Ian Goodfellow
Inventor of the GAN
Generative adversarial networks
Rating
90Impact score
Domains
Generative modelsAdversarial examplesDeep learning
Scouting report
Proposed generative adversarial networks in 2014 — two networks trained against each other — and gave image generation its first decade. Co-wrote the Deep Learning textbook with Bengio and Courville, which is free to read online, and did foundational work on adversarial examples that became its own subfield.
Curator’s note
Two networks arguing, and suddenly machines could imagine.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Ian Goodfellow by Ian Goodfellow, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Ian Goodfellow en.wikipedia.org
- 02Generative Adversarial Networks (2014) arxiv.org