arXiv:2606. 03746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-step distillation has become an effective strategy for accelerating advanced visual generative models, yet prior work has largely focused on distillation objectives.
Swift-Image is a compact unified model that performs text-to-image generation, single-image editing, and multi-image editing using a 6B parameter DiT architecture. It employs a progressive training pipeline, parallel expert reinforcement learning, and multi-teacher distillation to balance diverse objectives, while a Prompt Enhancer decouples high-level reasoning from pixel-level rendering. After training, structural pruning and few-step distillation produce efficient 3B and accelerated variants that maintain near‑lossless performance and improve editing efficiency.
arXiv:2608. 20334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Swift-Image, a compact unified model for text-to-image generation, single-image editing, and multi-image editing.
The paper introduces DM-Align, a single-stage optimization framework that jointly performs distribution matching for distillation and aligns video generative models with human preferences. By deriving complementary gradient directions—one minimizing the gap between real and fake models and another guiding the model toward preferred samples—the method eliminates the need for separate reinforcement learning and distillation stages. Experiments on multiple foundational video models show that this sample-guided approach consistently outperforms both standalone variants and traditional two-stage pipelines.
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.
SenseNova-U1.5 is an 8B‑MoT native unified multimodal model that can understand, reason about, and generate visual content without using an encoder or VAE. It improves visual fidelity and text rendering through spatially coherent patch reconstruction, large‑scale training on curated generation and editing data, and native resolutions up to 4K. Post‑training, specialized experts for visual aesthetics, bilingual text rendering, infographic generation, and image editing are optimized and distilled into a multi‑expert framework, yielding advances in image fidelity, complex composition, multi‑reference editing, and instruction following.
arXiv:2609.36638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image users often provide concise and underspecified prompts, whereas generative models benefit from detailed textual conditions for reliable i...
MT Forcing introduces a training paradigm for multi‑turn image editing with unified multimodal models based on autoregressive diffusion. It combines Single‑Turn Distribution Matching Distillation, which guides student rollouts with a teacher that applies all edits in one step, and Teacher‑Forcing Guidance, which supervises history‑dependent transitions to promote cross‑turn consistency. Experiments show the method yields more stable visual quality and stronger consistency across editing turns.
arXiv:2601. 09881v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large video diffusion and flow models have achieved remarkable success in high-quality video generation, but their use in real-time interactive applications remains limited due to their inefficient multi-step sampling process.
Autoregressive generation underlies real-time, causal video synthesis and is the backbone of video world models. Today's dominant approach distills a bidirectional diffusion model into a causal few-st...
Recent diffusion editors perform diverse instruction-based edits while conditioning on the source image at every denoising step. Yet persistent source-image conditioning can limit how fully an edit is executed and how natural the result appears, especially when the target scene diverges substantially from the input.
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.