arXiv:2608.23551v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent advances in continuous diffusion and flow-based language models (LMs) have achieved performance competitive with discrete LMs. However, existi...
By Na Li, Yuchen Jiao, Changxiao Cai, Gen Li
The paper introduces Abra, a family of flow‑matching transformers used to systematically study scaling laws for text‑to‑image diffusion models across three orders of magnitude in compute. It finds that diffusion models scale predictably like language models but need far more data, with compute optimality occurring at roughly 200 image tokens per parameter—ten times the optimal ratio for large language models. The study also shows that diffusion models are robust to overtraining, that more data is preferable to larger models, and that scaling predictability extends to generative quality, optimal CFG settings, representation quality, and training curve shapes.
By Kyle Chickering, Wei-An Lin, Swayam Bhanded, Dan Saunders, Akshat Tripathi, Jiaming Song, Shyamal Buch, Xinchen Yan
arXiv:2606. 00094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image generative models aim to sample data points from the underlying data manifold, a task that requires learning and decoding a dense, low-dimensional, and compact parameterization space.
By Duoduo Xue, Zhiyu Zhu, Junhui Hou
arXiv:2609.38364v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Discrete diffusion models and flow matching have emerged as powerful frameworks for generative modeling over discrete state spaces, yet efficient few...
By Yidong Ouyang, Zhengyan Wan, Themis Haris, Tian Tan, Liqian Peng, Henry Li, Ziqian Lin, Jianhang Chen, Maryam Karimzadehgan, Alec Go, George Michailidis
arXiv:2608.27885v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodality translation (e.g., text-to-image) is a core generative AI task. However, existing approaches (1) follow generative paths that do not dire...
By Gabe Guo, Elon Litman, Thanawat Sornwanee, Jose Blanchet, Stefano Ermon
arXiv:2609.40362v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present Multimodal Flow, a fully continuous generative model of language and vision. Most unified multimodal models either model both language and q...
By Hongyuan Tao, Xinggang Wang, Lianghui Zhu, Yongkang Li, Yunchao Wei, Bin Feng, Shaoyu Chen, Qian Zhang, Chang Huang, Kai Yu
arXiv:2606. 20076v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have become dominant in visual synthesis, but their quality-compute trade-off is largely constrained by the tokenizer's fixed compression ratio.
By Dong Hoon Lee, Seunghoon Hong
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved substantial progress in natural language generation tasks. Recent research demonstrates that adaptive token generation ordering can significantly improve performance in mathematical reasoning and code synthesis applications.
arXiv:2602. 05951v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, particularly for text-to-image generation.
By Junwan Kim, Jiho Park, Seonghu Jeon, Seungryong Kim
arXiv:2609.36348v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generative and representation learning remain asymmetrically connected: semantic representations are used to improve diffusion generation, whereas th...
By Xiaoyu Wu, Yifei Wang, Chen Wei
The paper introduces Less Uniform Diffusion (LUDI), a framework that improves uniform diffusion language models by using a less uniform loss and per-token time embeddings to guide reverse transitions and enable confidence-based few-step sampling. Experiments demonstrate that LUDI provides cleaner supervision, enhances few-step generation, and scales to a 7B model (LUDI-7B) that achieves a 3-token-per-step speedup over autoregressive decoding while matching masked diffusion baselines. The work suggests that UDLMs still have untapped potential for complex generation tasks.
By Kaibo Wang, Ding Ding, Fangyu Ding, Zijin Feng, Han Shi, Haili Bai, Jiacheng Sun, Yang Xiang
arXiv:2508. 10875v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm.
By Tianyi Li, Mingda Chen, Bowei Guo, Zhiqiang Shen