Where the Cost Falls: A Deployment-Aware Adoption Order for Stability Enhancements to Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks

[2608.14811] Where the Cost Falls: A Deployment-Aware Adoption Order for Stability Enhancements to Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition arXiv:2608.14811 (cs) [Submitted on 14 Aug 2026] Title: Where the Cost Falls: A Deployment-Aware Adoption Order for Stability Enhancements to Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks Authors: Rowan Hussein , Mohamed Ouf View a PDF of the paper titled Where the Cost Falls: A Deployment-Aware Adoption Order for Stability Enhancements to Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks, by Rowan Hussein and Mohamed Ouf View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Teams that adopt cycle-consistent adversarial networks for unpaired image-to-image translation meet the same obstacles: adversarial training oscillates or collapses, cycle consistency preserves coarse layout while finer texture drifts, and a single discriminator judging global realism misses local artifacts. Four enhancements address these failures, and they are usually compared on output quality alone. We show that they also divide sharply by where their cost falls, and that this division, which follows from the architecture and not from any particular run, yields an adoption order for teams under a compute or latency budget. A Wasserstein objective with gradient penalty, a VGG19 perceptual loss on the cycle reconstruction, and multi-scale discriminators change training only, so a team can adopt or drop them without altering what ships. Self-attention alone persists into the deployed generator, with memory growing as the square of the feature-map size, which makes it the one component a resource-constrained team should defer. We integrate all four onto a lightly tuned baseline for horse-to-zebra translation, introduced one at a time on a fixed control and then combined, and for each we give the failure mode it targets and how it integrates. We document the collapse and reconstruction-artifact modes the baseline produced, report what visual inspection of saved samples showed for each variant, and report Fréchet Inception Distance and Kernel Inception Distance for the combined model. We specify the protocol still needed, covering the individual variants, perceptual similarity, and downstream segmentation, to rank these enhancements on measured evidence. Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2608.14811 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2608.14811v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.14811 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Mohamed Ouf [ view email ] [v1] Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:29:05 UTC (4,574 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Where the Cost Falls: A Deployment-Aware Adoption Order for Stability Enhancements to Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks, by Rowan Hussein and Mohamed Ouf View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CV < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... 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