arXiv Computer Vision

Balancing Frequencies and Pixels in Flow Matching

The paper introduces a Focal Log-Frequency Loss (f-loss) to counteract the spectral imbalance in pixel-space flow matching, where low frequencies dominate training. By balancing learning signals across frequencies and combining early frequency-domain supervision with later pixel-space refinement, the method accelerates convergence by up to 40% and improves FID and perceptual fidelity across multiple model scales. It requires no architectural changes and can replace existing flow matching losses as a drop‑in solution.

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Aug 6

Energy-Guided Flow Matching

Pixel-space generative models bypass lossy latent compression, yet necessitate joint learning of global structure and fine-grained details in a high-dimensional space. Standard flow matching interpolates noise toward a fixed clean-image endpoint, leaving the spectral evolution to be learned implicitly.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

High-Frequency First: A Two-Stage Approach for Improving Image INR

The paper proposes a two-stage training strategy for Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) that addresses spectral bias by using a neighbor-aware soft mask to emphasize high-frequency details early in training. In the first stage, the mask assigns higher weights to pixels with strong local variations, encouraging the network to focus on fine edges and textures. The second stage transitions to full-image training, and experiments show consistent improvements in reconstruction quality across existing INR methods.

By Sumit Kumar Dam, Mrityunjoy Gain, Eui-Nam Huh, Choong Seon Hong
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30

Adversarial Training for Pixel Diffusion

Pixel diffusion models generate RGB images directly but tend to miss fine‑scale natural‑image statistics. The authors introduce an adversarial post‑training step that adds an adversarial loss to the model’s output at non‑high‑noise timesteps, without changing the architecture or sampling procedure. This approach improves distribution fidelity, coverage, prompt alignment, and perceptual quality across two pixel backbones, and restores missing high‑frequency spectral power while avoiding memorization or mode dropping.

By Xin Lin, Zhifei Zhang, Yuqian Zhou, Haitian Zheng, Zhe Lin, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Truong Nguyen
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Flow Straight to Reality: Perceptually Consistent Flow Matching for Efficient Image Restoration

arXiv:2608. 10544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image restoration is fundamentally constrained by the tradeoff between distortion and perception: minimizing pixel-wise error yields over-smoothed results, whereas optimizing for perceptual realism often introduces structural deviations.

By Sangwoo Jo, Donggeun Ko, Jayeon Kang, Youngsang Kwak, Jaehwa Kwak, Sungjoon Choi
arXiv AI
Jun 29

Exposure Bias Can Alleviate Itself via Directional and Frequency Rectification in Flow Matching

arXiv:2606. 28226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow Matching (FM) has achieved remarkable generative performance, yet it suffers from exposure bias due to discrepancies between training and inference.

By Guanbo Huang, Jingjia Mao, Fanding Huang, Fengkai Liu, Xiangyang Luo, Yaoyuan Liang, Jiasheng Lu, Xiaoe Wang, Pei Liu, Ruiliu Fu, Ruqi Huang, Shao-Lun Huang