arXiv:2607. 27372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deep learning revolution, kicked off by AlexNet, taught us that end-to-end training beats decomposing a problem into hand-designed stages.
By Alexi Gladstone, Heng Ji, Yilun Du
The paper investigates how visual representations contribute to pixel diffusion transformers and finds that higher representation quality does not always improve generative performance, and that separating architecture into specialized decoders mainly redistributes modeling rather than enhancing generative suitability. Based on these findings, the authors propose Representation Guidance (RG), a method that compacts generation-relevant information into a low-dimensional bottleneck and explicitly uses it to steer decoder generation. RG achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on ImageNet 256×256 with fewer parameters, scales efficiently, and extends to text‑to‑image tasks with strong benchmark performance.
By Zihao Pan, Mengting Chen, Cheng Shi, Taihang Hu, Zhengrong Yue, Zikang Wang, Yuan Wang, Wei Li, Sibei Yang
arXiv:2609.39222v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-compression tokenizers are essential for scaling latent image generative models. However, aggressive compression creates a fundamental tradeoff be...
By Xu Huang, Ye Huang, Zijun Liao, Yuwei Niu, Xiaojie Li, Menghan Zhou, De Wen Soh, Xiaotong Li, Daquan Zhou
The paper revisits pixel-space diffusion models, showing that a vanilla diffusion transformer can generate directly in pixel space by swapping velocity prediction for clean image prediction. It introduces MFlow, an adaptive parameterization that interpolates between these two prediction modes based on data representation and model capacity, and demonstrates competitive performance on ImageNet, UCF‑101, and text‑to‑image tasks. Additionally, the authors add ConvRefiner, a lightweight convolutional module trained post‑hoc to restore high‑frequency details while preserving FID.
By Soumik Mukhopadhyay, Long Mai, Abhinav Shrivastava, Aniruddha Mahapatra
arXiv:2509. 24935v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scalability has driven recent advances in generative modeling, yet its principles remain underexplored for adversarial learning.
By Sangeek Hyun, MinKyu Lee, Jae-Pil Heo
arXiv:2605.15592v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Few-step image generation has seen rapid progress, with consistency and meanflow-based methods significantly reducing the number of sampling steps....
By Tung Do, Thuan Hoang Nguyen, Hao Li
arXiv:2608. 01298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a core architecture in generative modeling due to their scalability and adaptability to multimodal tasks.
By Junno Yun, Ya\c{s}ar Utku Al\c{c}alar, Mehmet Ak\c{c}akaya
arXiv:2605.25801v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: High-resolution video generation faces a coupled bottleneck of optimization instability and prohibitive computational costs. The massive expansion...
By Wenxue Li, Jingjing Ren, Peng Zhang, Tian Ye, Daiguo Zhou, Jian Luan, Xinhu Zheng, Gang Hua, Lei Zhu
The paper introduces a post‑training approach that enables a single inference process to transition from text reasoning to image synthesis, eliminating the need for explicit modality switching. Using the 14B BAGEL model, the authors demonstrate that targeted post‑training data and reward‑weighted training improve multimodal image generation across four independent T2I benchmarks. The study highlights the benefits of joint text‑image generation and strategic data selection for enhancing T2I performance.
By Jiahui Chen, Philippe Hansen-Estruch, Xiaochuang Han, Yushi Hu, Emily Dinan, Amita Kamath, Michal Drozdzal, Reyhane Askari-Hemmat, Luke Zettlemoyer, Marjan Ghazvininejad
arXiv:2606.21030v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Diffusion-based image compression has achieved strong perceptual quality at ultra-low bitrates. However, existing codecs are often tied to sp...
By Yinhuan Huang, Hao Cao, Pu chen, Wenqi Guo, Jungong Han, Zhijin Qin
arXiv:2410.13925v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: \textit{Nature is infinitely resolution-free}. In the context of this reality, existing diffusion models, such as Diffusion Transformers, often fac...
By ZiDong Wang, Zeyu Lu, Di Huang, Cai Zhou, Xiaoyu Yue, Wanli Ouyang, and Lei Bai
The paper introduces SMFSR, a one‑step real‑world super‑resolution framework that retains the noise‑started generation of diffusion models while conditioning on low‑resolution images. It uses LR‑conditioned SplitMeanFlow with Interval Splitting Consistency to collapse a multi‑step trajectory into a single average‑velocity prediction, and adds a GAN refinement stage with a DINOv3 discriminator and variational score distillation to enhance texture realism. Experiments show SMFSR achieves state‑of‑the‑art perceptual quality among one‑step diffusion‑based methods while maintaining fast inference.
By Wei Zhu, Kai Zhang, Yu Zheng, Lei Luo, Yong Guo, Jian Yang