Why Does This Work?

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Model Shortcomings

As with any new formulation, it's important not only to learn about its strengths and capabilities, but also, its weaknesses. A CycleGAN has a few shortcomings:

It will only show one version of a transformed output even if there are multiple, possible outputs.
A simple CycleGAN produces low-resolution images, though there is some research around high-resolution GANs
It occasionally fails! (One such case is pictured below.)