Important links for reading material :

1. Why momentum of the optimizer is important : https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/
2. This paper explains about checkerboard pattern problem and how they are not exclusive to GANs, but can occur in any neural network that employs them - https://distill.pub/2016/deconv-checkerboard/
3. pytorch DCGAN tutorial - https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/dcgan_faces_tutorial.html

Important papers related to GANs :

1. Generative Adversarial Networks(2014)- https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661
2. Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) (2016)- https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.
3. Temporal Generative Adversarial Nets with Singular Value Clipping (TGAN) (2017)- https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06624