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Models & ProductsLLM Architecture Updated 2026

GAN (Generative Adversarial Network)

A generative architecture that trains two networks against each other — a generator that fabricates data and a discriminator that tries to spot the fakes.

Introduced by Goodfellow et al. (2014), a GAN pits a generator that produces synthetic samples against a discriminator that judges real versus fake. As each improves, the generator learns to produce increasingly realistic output. GANs drove a generation of photorealistic image synthesis.

For image generation they have largely been succeeded by diffusion models, but the adversarial-training idea remains foundational.

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Generative Adversarial Nets
Goodfellow, I. J., Pouget-Abadie, J., Mirza, M., Xu, B., Warde-Farley, D., Ozair, S., Courville, A., & Bengio, Y. (2014). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27 (NeurIPS 2014).

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MultipleChat. "GAN (Generative Adversarial Network)." MultipleChat AI & LLM Glossary, 2026. https://multiple.chat/ai-glossary/gan

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