This Bored Ape Does Not Exist

Code to fully reproduce the results for the blog post These Bored Apes Do Not Exist.

View results at thisboredapedoesnotexist.nathancooperjones.com.

Getting Started

On a machine with Python installed, first install requirements with:

pip install -r requirements.in

From here, you can take one of two paths:

1. Training a model from scratch. To do this, you'll need some data. With a free GPU available and plenty of time, head on over to 00_get_data to get the dataset needed for the GAN. From there, you'll head to 01_lightweight_gan, 02_super_resolution, and 03_resizing_and_png_conversion, in that order.

2. Running pre-trained models in inference-mode. If you do not want to train any models, but instead just run all models in inference mode, then head over to 01_lightweight_gan to find the URL to download the model weights. From there, you'll head to 02_super_resolution and 03_resizing_and_png_conversion, in that order.

Acknowledgements

This project would not be possible without:

• Phil Wang's (AKA lucidrains) incredible work on Lightweight GAN!
• yu45020's understandable port of Waifu2x!
• Inspiration, motivation, and encouragement from Michael Sugimura (AKA sugi-chan on both GitHub and Medium).
• My partner Jenna Blazi, who let me ramble about NFTs and this project for two weeks straight and (almost) never complained about it.