I am working on a pix2pix GAN model that was inspired by the code in this Github repository. The original code is working and I have already customized most of the code for my needs. However, there is one part I am unable to understand.
The pix2pix GAN is a conditional GAN network that takes an image as a condition and outputs a modified image - such as blurry to clear, facades to buildings, filling up cut out part of an image, etc. The combined model thus takes as input a conditional image, the discriminator compares it with the dummy matrix named valid or fake, containing 0s or 1s according to validity (0 for generated samples, 1 for real samples). The generator loss is according to similarity with real sample + discriminator. The following code corresponds to what I told:
self.combined = Model(inputs=[img_A, img_B], outputs=[valid, fake_A])
self.combined.compile(loss=['mse', 'mae'],
loss_weights=[1, 100],
optimizer=optimizer)
The losses are thus set as MSE for discriminator output and MAE for generator. That seems to be OK, but I can not understand why the implementation uses 1 and 100 for the weights of the discriminator and generator losses, respectively, which seems to imply that the discriminator loss is 100 times lower than the loss of the generator. I couldn't find the reason in the original article. Are my understandings of the GAN incorrect?
Disclaimer: I have posted this question on Stats SE, but have no luck with answers. Maybe it is more suitable for AI.