Learn in the textbookGenerative Models and Large Language Models
DefinitionGenerative Adversarial Network (敵対的生成ネットワーク) is the full name of GAN, and the Japanese term is its official Japanese rendering.
Explanation"Adversarial" describes the rivalry in which the generator and discriminator each try to outwit the other, and "generative" describes the goal of creating new data. Each part of the name maps directly onto a key point of how the model works.
Memory hookIn English, Generative comes first, but the Japanese name puts "adversarial" (敵対的) first, so the word order is reversed.