方法对比

	生成对抗网络	变分自编码器	Vision Transformer
领域	深度学习	深度学习	深度学习
方法族	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
起源年份	2014	2014	2021
提出者	Goodfellow, I. et al.	Kingma, D. P. & Welling, M.	Dosovitskiy, A. et al.
类型	Generative deep learning (adversarial two-network game)	Deep generative latent-variable model (encoder–decoder)	Transformer architecture for images (self-attention over patches)
开创性文献	Goodfellow, I. et al. (2014). Generative Adversarial Nets. NeurIPS.	Kingma, D. P. & Welling, M. (2014). Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).	Dosovitskiy, A. et al. (2021). An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale. ICLR.
别名	Üretici Çekişmeli Ağ (GAN), GAN, generative adversarial nets, adversarial network	Değişkensel Otokodlayıcı (VAE), VAE, auto-encoding variational Bayes, deep latent variable model	Görsel Transformer (ViT), görsel transformer, ViT, patch transformer for images
相关	4	5	5
摘要	A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), introduced by Ian Goodfellow and colleagues in 2014, produces realistic synthetic data through the competition of two neural networks — a generator and a discriminator. It is widely used for image synthesis, data augmentation, and distribution estimation.	The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a deep generative latent-variable model, introduced by Diederik Kingma and Max Welling in 2014, that encodes data as a probability distribution in a latent space and samples from that distribution to generate new examples. It is used for data generation, anomaly detection, and feature learning.	The Vision Transformer (ViT), introduced by Dosovitskiy and colleagues in 2021, splits an image into fixed-size patches, treats those patches as a sequence, and applies the Transformer self-attention mechanism to image classification. Given enough training data, it surpasses convolutional neural networks (CNNs).