Why normalizing the input doesn't work

[ZimuW]

Hi, After testing the cifar-10 dataset, I noticed that if the data-batch is divided by 255.0 before feeding into the network, it doesn't converge. Is there a specific reason for this?

When training with celeba dataset without normalizing (dividing by 255.0), it won't converge as well.

Have you tried celeba dataset with this network? And did you run into any of those problems?

Thanks!

[mynameisvinn]

ive seen many successful examples of rescaling cifar 10 to 0-1 so that is strange. how many epochs did you run?

i havent tried it with cifar 10, but zca whitening is often used for image classification.

[ZimuW]

I think the reason is that this model is prone to model collapse because it's like the most basic one. WGAN converges with much higher probability