README.md

SketchRNN Pytorch

SketchRNN is a seq2seq VAE model which draws pictures.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03477

This repository contatins the original implementation + model with attention in decoder

Related works

• "SketchEmbedNet: Learning Novel Concepts by Imitating Drawings" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04806.pdf
• "Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention" https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16236
• "Sketch-BERT: Learning Sketch Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers by Self-supervised Learning of Sketch Gestalt" https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09159
• "Creative Sketch Generation" https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10039

DoodlerGAN data (Creative Birds)

• Github repo: https://github.com/facebookresearch/DoodlerGAN
• Google Drive files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14ZywlSE-khagmSz23KKFbLCQLoMOxPzl

Simplification

Requirements: pip install simplification (see https://pypi.org/project/simplification/)

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Tips for a faster convergence

Source: magenta/magenta#742

• anneal KL faster: use 0.9999 rather than 0.99995
• use learning rate at 0.0001 and not anneal below this rate to 0.00001, at the higher risk of NaNs
• turn off dropout, train faster but risk overfitting too soon

This is a fork

Original repo is here https://github.com/OhataKenji/SketchRNN-Pytorch. It provides the backbone (original model and trainer).

Improvements:

• model with attention
• data augmentation
• experiment logs, validation

Cudos to creator.