Supervised vs Unsupervised & Discriminative vs Generative

Highlights: GANs and classical Deep Learning methods (classification, object detection) are similar, but they are also fundamentally different in nature. Reviewing their properties will be the topic of this post. Therefore, before we proceed further with the GANs series, it will be useful to refresh and recap what is supervised and unsupervised learning. In addition, we will explain the difference between discriminative and generative models. Finally, we will introduce latent variables, since they are an important concept in GANs.