What is Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and how is it evaluated?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

FID measures distance between feature distributions of real and generated images.

Deep explanation

FID computes statistics (mean and covariance) of embeddings extracted from a pretrained Inception network for real and generated images. It assumes embeddings follow a Gaussian distribution and computes Fréchet distance between them. Lower FID indicates better generative quality and diversity.

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