[godelski]

To be honest I don't think the StyleGAN papers are benchmark chasing. If you read StyleGAN[0], StyleGAN2[1], StyleGAN2-ADA[2], and this paper there is a clear story. They call out the mistakes in the previous papers and resolve them. The papers themselves even admit to where they fall short. But it is research. Problems don't get solved all at once. But if you pay attention to these 4 papers it is very clear Kerras has a very well defined research focus and direction. He's showing his progress over time, sharing it with the community, and learning from the community as well. This is how research should happen.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04948

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04958

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06676

[phreeza]

Good point, I wanted to make a more general point about the state of ML literature, I am not super familiar with this particular sequence of papers.