Text-to-image diffusion models expose many inference-time sampling parameters, including prompts, negative prompts, classifier-free guidance scales, and noise schedules. These parameters are typically manually chosen once and then held fixed across prompts and denoising timesteps, even though different prompts and stages of generation can benefit from different parameter values.
arXiv:2607. 07693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for aligning generative models with human preferences.
By Eric Zhu, Abhinav Shrivastava, Soumik Mukhopadhyay
arXiv:2512. 09106v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion (Large) Language Models (dLLMs) now match the downstream performance of their autoregressive counterparts on many tasks, while holding the promise of being more efficient during inference.
By Metod Jazbec, Theo X. Olausson, Louis B\'ethune, Pierre Ablin, Michael Kirchhof, Jo\~ao Monteiro, Victor Turrisi, Jason Ramapuram, Marco Cuturi
arXiv:2606. 15048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models are typically trained with objectives that focus on local denoising targets at individual time steps (or adjacent pairs), which do not enforce consistency between predictions along the denoising trajectory.
By Qizhen Ying, Yangchen Pan, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Junfeng Wen
arXiv:2507. 08390v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Discrete diffusion models have recently emerged as strong alternatives to autoregressive language models, matching their performance through large-scale training.
By Meihua Dang, Jiaqi Han, Minkai Xu, Kai Xu, Akash Srivastava, Stefano Ermon
arXiv:2602. 08689v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models generate samples through an iterative denoising process guided by a pretrained neural network.
By Constant Bourdrez, Alexandre V\'erine, Olivier Capp\'e
arXiv:2608. 18040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling from a diffusion model typically requires many forward passes through a large neural network, making generation computationally expensive.
By Travis Zhang, Christian Belardi, Justin Lovelace, Jin Peng Zhou, Saebyeol Shin, Carla P. Gomes, Kilian Q. Weinberger
arXiv:2602. 03211v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have demonstrated strong generative performance; however, generated samples often fail to fully align with human intent.
By Yeongmin Kim, Donghyeok Shin, Byeonghu Na, Minsang Park, Richard Lee Kim, Il-Chul Moon
arXiv:2603. 12893v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard technique for post-training diffusion-based image synthesis models, as it enables learning from reward signals to explicitly improve desirable aspects such as image quality and prompt alignment.
By David McAllister, Miika Aittala, Tero Karras, Janne Hellsten, Angjoo Kanazawa, Timo Aila, Samuli Laine
Diffusion models have strong generative capabilities. However, their maximum likelihood training objective only focuses on reconstructing the data distribution, making it difficult to align with specific preferences.
arXiv:2608. 14430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training provides a direct way to align diffusion models with human preferences and task-specific rewards.
By Yixian Xu, Yuanrui Zhang, Shengjie Luo, Liwei Wang, Di He
arXiv:2607. 00486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models are highly effective at modeling complex data distributions, including images and text.
By Anindya Sarkar, Nasik Muhammad Nafi, Isaac Lyngaas, Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik