Flow-based generative models are typically sampled by solving a deterministic ordinary differential equation (ODE), whereas online reinforcement learning requires stochastic rollouts for policy exploration and optimization. Existing GRPO methods for flow models therefore replace the inference-time ODE with a stochastic differential equation (SDE) during training.
arXiv:2607. 00535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-step flow-map generators, such as consistency models and MeanFlow, accelerate sampling by directly learning long-range transport maps between noise and data.
By Zhiqi Li, Wen Zhang, Bo Zhu
arXiv:2606. 30376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning generative flow models on continuous spaces via online reinforcement learning is constrained by intractable trajectory likelihoods.
By Zheming Fu, Ruizhe He, Wei Shang, Xiaoxiao Ma, Lei Wang, Chang Liu, Siming Fu
arXiv:2608. 14430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training provides a direct way to align diffusion models with human preferences and task-specific rewards.
By Yixian Xu, Yuanrui Zhang, Shengjie Luo, Liwei Wang, Di He
arXiv:2606. 11156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent one-step generative models accelerate sampling by learning deterministic flow maps of the underlying dynamics.
By Zhengkai Pan, Peter Potaptchik, Wenxi Yao, Michael S. Albergo, Jakiw Pidstrigach
arXiv:2603. 20467v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Stochastic differential equations (SDEs), which serve as the governing equations for dynamical systems in a broad range of applications, can become cost-prohibitive for numerical simulation at scales necessary for quantifying key properties.
By Joanna Zou, Han Cheng Lie, Youssef Marzouk
arXiv:2608. 13096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limit order book (LOB) simulators are most useful to practitioners when they combine realistic market dynamics, computationally efficient sampling, controllable scenario generation, and the ability to generalize beyond the instruments seen during training---properties that existing agent-based and deep generative simulators provide only partially.
By Zhuohan Wang, Andreea Bacalum, Ollie Olby, Carmine Ventre, Namid Stillman
arXiv:2608. 15144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Posterior sampling with a pretrained diffusion prior is governed by a conditional score whose intermediate likelihood component is generally intractable.
By Zhaoqiang Liu, Tongyao Pang, Ruibing Wang, Yang Zheng
arXiv:2506. 11378v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sampling in score-based diffusion models can be performed by solving either a reverse-time stochastic differential equation (SDE) parameterized by an arbitrary stochasticity function or a probability flow ODE, corresponding to setting this stochasticity function to zero.
By Bernardo P. Schaeffer, Ricardo M. S. Rosa, Glauco Valle
arXiv:2607. 02137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study timestep allocation for score-based diffusion sampling, where a learned reverse-time dynamics is discretized on a finite grid.
By Yilie Huang, Wenpin Tang, Xun Yu Zhou
arXiv:2606. 15048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models are typically trained with objectives that focus on local denoising targets at individual time steps (or adjacent pairs), which do not enforce consistency between predictions along the denoising trajectory.
By Qizhen Ying, Yangchen Pan, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Junfeng Wen
arXiv:2601. 14430v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Controlling generative models is computationally expensive.
By Peter Potaptchik, Adhi Saravanan, Abbas Mammadov, Alvaro Prat, Michael S. Albergo, Yee Whye Teh