Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs

Re:Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs by programmarchy on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:36PM (#23149629)

How did you make it so fast? Are the multiple combinations generated in parallel ahead of time once you breed images? Seems like the GPU power must be immense.

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Re:Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs by sillysaurusx on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:56PM (#23149760)

The 1024x1024 StyleGAN2 network can generate an image in around 200ms - 500ms. And Artbreeder may be powered by some beefy GPUs, so that might reduce the latency to something like 100ms. Throw in 100ms of server lag time, and it feels almost instantaneous. It's quite a technical achievement!

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Re:Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs by joelS on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:31PM (#23149989)

Nothing fancy, just running on AWS :) Specifically, https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g4/ - The uploading is actually the expensive part since it can take ~2 minutes per image.

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Re:Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs by stevofolife on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:51PM (#23150096)

How much are you paying to keep this up? Is it expensive to run GPU instances like this?

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Re:Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs by joelS on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:46AM (#23150899)

it's not cheap but there are ways to make it manageable, i.e a aws spot g4 instance can be as low as 15 cents an hour

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Re:Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs by vagab0nd on Saturday May 16, 2020 @01:18PM (#23205282)

How do you handle interrupt? Do you keep multiple instances in different zones?

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