On Variance Reduction in Learning Mean Flows
arXiv:2605. 09235v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One-step generative modeling has emerged as a leading approach for amortizing the inference cost of diffusion and flow-matching models.
arXiv:2605. 09235v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One-step generative modeling has emerged as a leading approach for amortizing the inference cost of diffusion and flow-matching models.
arXiv:2607. 19332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models have undergone many generations of evolution, from VAEs/GANs to diffusion/flow matching.
arXiv:2609.37147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributional Diffusion Models (DDMs) replace the standard mean-prediction denoiser with a \emph{distributional} denoiser trained via a scoring rule...
arXiv:2509.26364v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Schr\"odinger bridge problem is concerned with finding a stochastic dynamical system bridging two marginal distributions that minimises a certa...
Generative models have undergone many generations of evolution, from VAEs/GANs to diffusion/flow matching. Along the way, the underlying techniques have become more complicated and various beliefs about what drives strong empirical performance have taken hold.
Training fast generators on new domains with limited data remains challenging for two reasons. First, adapting a pretrained diffusion or flow model to a new domain leaves its costly multi-step sampling unaddressed, and existing acceleration methods are tied to the source parameterization--$ε$, $x$, $v$, or $u$--leaving heterogeneous pretrained models with no common acceleration target.
arXiv:2608. 19540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training fast generators on new domains with limited data remains challenging for two reasons.
arXiv:2608. 02799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Score-based diffusion models are typically formulated using continuous-time stochastic differential equations and measure-theoretic stochastic calculus.
arXiv:2610.01408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory crossing remains a critical bottleneck in Flow Matching (FM), and previous works typically view these crossings from a theoretical optimizat...
arXiv:2605. 15806v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural operators excel as deterministic surrogates, but inevitably collapse to the conditional mean when applied to stochastic PDEs, discarding the variance and tail structure upon which uncertainty quantification depends.
arXiv:2607. 15273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MeanFlow generators achieve fast few-step sampling by predicting average velocities over time intervals, making them attractive for efficient generation.
arXiv:2608. 11544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose CVaR-penalized Generative Particle Algorithm (CVaR-GPA), a robust, tail-agnostic algorithm for fine-tuning generative models to learn heavy-tailed distributions and capture extreme events, requiring no prior knowledge or estimation of the target's tail characteristics.