https://gwern.net Pages from gwern.net in the 'AI: Image Generation (GANs, Diffusion, DALL-E)' section Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:52:09 +0000 GwernRSSBuilder/1.0 https://gwern.net/danbooru2021 https://gwern.net/danbooru2021 Danbooru2021 is a large-scale anime image database with 4.9m+ images annotated with 162m+ tags; it can be useful for machine learning purposes such as image recognition and generation. Gwern Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 2025-02-01T00:00:00Z essay ai/anime/danbooru https://gwern.net/dropcap https://gwern.net/dropcap We develop AI image generation workflows for webpage dropcap typography, creating PNGs & SVGs using image generators. As demos, we create new Gwern.net logos and several custom FLOSS dropcap sets, including felines, Gene​ Wolfe horror fiction, and neural-net-inspired dropcaps. Gwern Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2024-10-30T00:00:00Z essay ai/nn/diffusion/midjourney/dropcap ai/nn/transformer/gpt/dall-e/3 cs/css cs/js https://gwern.net/blog/2024/personalization https://gwern.net/blog/2024/personalization Flaws in Midjourney’s new personalization feature: inefficient, noisy, and crude… but still useful and recommended. Gwern Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-07-23T00:00:00Z essay https://gwern.net/face https://gwern.net/face A tutorial explaining how to train and generate high-quality anime faces with StyleGAN 1+2 neural networks, and tips/scripts for effective StyleGAN use. Gwern Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 2022-10-19T00:00:00Z essay ai/anime/danbooru ai/nn/gan/stylegan/anime cs/python tutorial https://gwern.net/gan https://gwern.net/gan Diffusion models supposedly beat GANs because they scale better and stabler. That is unproven, and false. GANs should be revisited. Gwern Branwen Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 2022-10-15T00:00:00Z essay ai/nn/gan ai/scaling https://gwern.net/blog/2019/twdne-website https://gwern.net/blog/2019/twdne-website N/A Gwern Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 2022-05-05T00:00:00Z essay https://gwern.net/biggan https://gwern.net/biggan Experiments in using BigGAN to generate anime faces and whole anime images; semi-successful. Gwern Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z essay ai/anime/danbooru ai/nn/gan/biggan cs/python tutorial https://gwern.net/face-graveyard https://gwern.net/face-graveyard Post-mortems of failed neural network experiments in generating anime images, pre-StyleGAN/BigGAN. Gwern Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z essay ai/anime/danbooru ai/nn/gan/biggan ai/nn/gan/stylegan/progan ai/nn/vae https://gwern.net/crop https://gwern.net/crop Description of 3 anime datasets for machine learning based on Danbooru: cropped anime faces, whole-single-character crops, and hand crops (with hand detection model). Gwern Branwen, Arfafax, Shawn Presser, Anonymous, Danbooru Community Sun, 10 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z essay ai/anime/danbooru ai/dataset ai/nn/gan/data-augmentation ai/nn/gan/stylegan/anime dataset