Improved Attribute Manipulation in the Latent Space of StyleGAN for Semantic Face Editing
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the recent popularization of generative frameworks for producing photorealistic face images, we now have the ability to create a convincing graphical match for any particular individual. It is unrealistic, however, to rely solely on such generative methods to randomly produce the facial characteristics we are seeking. Instead, manipulation of facial attributes in the latent space, enabled by the InterFaceGAN framework, allows us to “tweak” these characteristics in the desired direction to improve the quality of the match. The challenge in this process is that attribute entanglement leads to a change of one feature having an undesirable impact on others. We explore several strategies to improve the results of these manipulations, and demonstrate how the automatic conditioning of attributes can be used to minimize the impact of such entanglement, and further, allow for improved control over complex (non-binary) attributes such as race or face shape.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it