The paper introduces MS-Flow, a method that represents a flow-based generative model’s trajectory as a sequence of intermediate latent states instead of a single initial code. By enforcing local flow dynamics and coupling trajectory segments with matching penalties, the approach alternates between updating latent states and ensuring consistency with observed data. This strategy reduces memory usage and improves reconstruction quality on tasks such as image inpainting, super‑resolution, and computed tomography.
By Alexander Denker, Zeljko Kereta, Carola-Bibiane Sch\"onlieb, Moshe Eliasof
arXiv:2601. 19180v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inversion-free image editing using flow-based generative models challenges the prevailing inversion-based pipelines.
By Lifan Jiang, Boxi Wu, Yuhang Pei, Tianrun Wu, Yongyuan Chen, Yan Zhao, Shiyu Yu, Deng Cai
Rectified-flow-based diffusion transformers, particularly FLUX, have demonstrated outstanding performance in high-quality image generation. However, achieving fast and accurate inversion--transforming images back to latent noise for faithful reconstruction and editing--remains a challenging bottleneck due to the discretization errors of linear solvers.
arXiv:2605. 16399v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The inversion of diffusion models plays a central role in image editing.
By Barbora Barancikova, Daniil Shmelev, Cristopher Salvi
arXiv:2606. 19802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image restoration faces a fundamental tradeoff: methods that minimize error produce blurry reconstructions, while those that maximize perceptual quality yield sharp but less faithful images.
By Nicolas Zilberstein, Morteza Mardani, Santiago Segarra
arXiv:2604.24136v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Pretrained diffusion models have revolutionized real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), but their iterative sampling is computationally prohi...
By Shyang-En Weng, Yi-Cheng Liao, Yu-Syuan Xu, Chia-Hung Yuan, Wei-Chen Chiu, Ching-Chun Huang
Steering Fields introduce adaptive vector fields that re-estimate steering directions at each step of a flow-based text-to-image generation process, replacing the fixed global steering vectors traditionally used. By operating on noisy states, they provide a continuous trade-off between steering strength and content preservation, and allow simultaneous induction and inhibition of concepts without explicit spatial masks or object priors. The method achieves state-of-the-art safety steering benchmarks and can also function as a structure-preserving image-editing technique, delivering high semantic fidelity while remaining model-agnostic and inversion-free.
By Simone Facchiano, Jan Eric Lenssen, Bernt Schiele, Wolfgang Stammer, Fabio Galasso, Jonas Fischer
arXiv:2607. 26723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inversion-based watermarking is a promising approach to authenticate diffusion-generated images, yet practical use is bottlenecked by inversion that is both slow and error-prone.
By Jindong Yang, Han Fang, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu, Kejiang Chen
arXiv:2601. 23231v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Flow-based generative models provide strong unconditional priors for inverse problems, but guiding their dynamics for conditional generation remains challenging.
By George Webber, Alexander Denker, Riccardo Barbano, Andrew J Reader
arXiv:2607. 12171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In rectified-flow-based generative models, the neural network can be trained to predict two different targets, such as the instantaneous velocity or the data endpoint, to perform denoising.
By Xu Han, Jiajing Hu, Li-Ping Liu
FlashRender is a few-step generative rendering framework that quickly retakes a source video along a target camera trajectory. It addresses discretization error by introducing Representation Transformation and Alignment (RETA) to align source-video representations with target-video features, reducing denoising trajectory curvature. The model is further refined with a MeanFlow objective and on-policy flow map distillation, achieving video quality and geometric consistency comparable to multi-step baselines at a 25× lower sampling cost while improving camera controllability.
By Byeongjun Park, Byung-Hoon Kim, Hyungjin Chung
arXiv:2603.20186v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this work, we propose Image-to-Image Rectified Flow Reformulation (I2I-RFR), a practical plug-in reformulation that recasts standard I2I regress...
By Satoshi Iizuka, Shun Okamoto, Kazuhiro Fukui