Practical image generation requires both human preference alignment and few-step efficiency, yet combining reinforcement learning (RL) with distillation is often multi-stage and may erode RL gains We...
AdvFidelity unifies preference alignment and few-step image generation by embedding artifact-sensitive fidelity supervision directly into reinforcement learning. It trains a discriminator to rank high-quality references above content-matched reconstructions, enabling online adaptation of fidelity rewards without explicit distillation. The method achieves alignment, task performance, and generation quality comparable to full-step LeapAlign while using only 4 or 8 steps and no classifier-free guidance.
By Sicong Kang, Fangao Zeng, Yuhan Li, Hao Zhou, Mengfei Xu, Wenxiang Shang, Wei Li, Bingbing Ni, Pipei Huang
arXiv:2608. 09226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient text-to-image generation requires both reinforcement-learning (RL)-based reward alignment and few-step distillation, yet these procedures are typically performed sequentially, increasing training cost and risking the loss of reward gains during compression.
By Yuhan Li, Fangao Zeng, Sicong Kang, Mengfei Xu, Hao Zhou, Wei Li, Pipei Huang, Bingbing Ni
arXiv:2608.29804v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Virtual try-on (VTON) requires not only realistic generation but also faithful preservation of garment characteristics. However, existing evaluation me...
By Kaidong Zhang, Yukang Ding, Xiaoyu Liu, Ying Chen
arXiv:2606. 19162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Score- and flow-matching models often rely on preference-based reinforcement learning for two purposes: aligning with subjective preferences and, surprisingly, recovering properties such as visual realism and coherent object structure that matching-based training is intended to learn from the data itself.
By Nicolas Beltran-Velez, Felix Friedrich, Zhang Xiaofeng, Reyhane Askari-Hemmat, Xiaochuang Han, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Michal Drozdzal
Efficient text-to-image generation requires both reinforcement-learning (RL)-based reward alignment and few-step distillation, yet these procedures are typically performed sequentially, increasing training cost and risking the loss of reward gains during compression. We instead take an RL-native perspective: diffusion RL already generates reward-scored finite-step trajectories, whose intermediate states provide a natural source of distillation supervision rather than a disposable byproduct of sampling.
arXiv:2601.03468v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard approach for post-training large language models and, more recently, for improving image generati...
By Yunqi Hong, Kuei-Chun Kao, Hengguang Zhou, Cho-Jui Hsieh
The paper investigates how reinforcement learning can be effectively applied to diffusion models for visual tasks, focusing on the role of likelihood estimation. By systematically separating policy‑gradient objectives, likelihood estimators, and rollout sampling schemes, the authors find that using an evidence lower bound (ELBO) based likelihood estimator computed from the final generated sample is the key factor for stable and efficient RL optimization, outweighing the choice of loss function. Experiments on SD 3.5 Medium across multiple reward benchmarks confirm that this approach improves GenEval scores from 0.24 to 0.95 in 90 GPU hours, outperforming existing methods such as FlowGRPO and the current state‑of‑the‑art without reward hacking.
By Jaemoo Choi, Yuchen Zhu, Wei Guo, Petr Molodyk, Bo Yuan, Jinbin Bai, Yi Xin, Molei Tao, Yongxin Chen
arXiv:2610.15582v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of inverse garment design, reconstructing simulation-ready 3D outfits with arbitrary layers from a single image, with visual agent...
By Nanxiang Jiang, Yunuo Chen, Zeng Tao, Zizhang Li, Qi Guo, Jiajun Wu, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
arXiv:2607.11233v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Virtual try-on (VTON) is a bi-conditional image generation problem that requires not only accurate person preservation but also faithful garment de...
By Lu Yang, Xiaonan Hu, Yanan Li, Daqi Liu, Hao Lu, Xiang Bai
arXiv:2609.13259v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Virtual Try-On (VTON) aims to dress a person with the reference garment, producing visually reasonable results aligned with human preferences. Turnin...
By Xueheng Li, Yong Liu, Xiaolong Fu, Wen Xue, Chengjun Xie, Yipeng Sun, Yan Li, Simiu Gu
arXiv:2607. 12382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can an agent build a structured map of its world from nothing but an ongoing sequence of raw sensory input and its own movements, especially when natural variation means exact sensory patterns rarely repeat?
By Arash Nikzad, Sasan Sarbishegi, Ali Dasmeh, Muhammad Asif, Parsa Gharavi, Erik Husom, Sagar Sen, Andrew B. Lehr, Olivier Penacchio, Ana Clemente, Tristan M. St\"ober