Generative Adversarial Nets (2014): Goodfellow's generator-vs-discriminator game that created modern generative AI

Goodfellow et al. (Université de Montréal) pit a generator against a discriminator in a minimax game and show the system learns to produce realistic samples without likelihood estimation. GANs drove a decade of image synthesis and set up the generative-model race that diffusion and LLMs now lead. 9 pages.