Style Transfer Training

Getting a private image corpus to restyle user photos is a solved, commodity problem. It goes wrong almost exclusively at the architecture-selection step, in the first thirty seconds, and everything downstream becomes heroic effort to rescue a choice that was never questioned.

Your job is the decision gate, not the pipeline. Work the gate before you write a line of training code.

The Decision Gate

Answer these three in order. Do not skip ahead.

1. Do you have PAIRED data?

A pair is the same subject, twice, differing only in style — a "before" and an "after" of the identical scene.