arXiv:2606. 08672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion and flow generative models sample by integrating a learned ODE, but high quality still requires many sequential model evaluations.
By Sihyeon Kim, Seunghun Lee, Vikas Singh, Hyunwoo J. Kim
arXiv:2606. 11075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning text-to-image flow matching models with human preferences via direct reward backpropagation is sample-efficient but hampered by two well-known pathologies: activations cannot be stored across the full sampling trajectory at modern model scale, and chained Jacobian products across steps inflate the reward gradient as it travels back to early indices.
By Ruoyu Wang, Boye Niu, Xiangxin Zhou, Yushi Huang, Tongliang Liu, Chi Zhang
arXiv:2603.20186v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this work, we propose Image-to-Image Rectified Flow Reformulation (I2I-RFR), a practical plug-in reformulation that recasts standard I2I regress...
By Satoshi Iizuka, Shun Okamoto, Kazuhiro Fukui
FlashAR is a lightweight post‑training adaptation framework that converts a pre‑trained raster‑scan autoregressive image model into a highly parallel generator using two‑way next‑token prediction. It preserves the original training objective by keeping the horizontal head for row‑wise prediction and adding a lightweight vertical head for column‑wise prediction, with a learnable fusion gate to combine the two predictions. A two‑stage adaptation pipeline—first initializing the vertical head from the pre‑trained model and then jointly fine‑tuning—yields up to a 22.9× speedup for 512×512 image generation while using only 0.05% of the original training data.
By Junkang Zhou, Yefei He, Feng Chen, Weijie Wang, Bohan Zhuang
ChebBooster is a training‑free extrapolation framework that accelerates Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) by using Chebyshev polynomial theory. It employs a Barycentric formulation for numerically stable evaluation and separates the process into an offline weight precomputation phase and a lightweight online application stage. Experiments on DiT‑XL/2, PixArt‑Σ, and FLUX.1‑dev show consistent visual quality gains and up to 3.68× latency speedup and 5.12× FLOPs reduction compared to existing training‑free baselines.
By Chengjie Lu, Tianchi Deng, Zhengqi He, Chengwen Luo, Xueliang Li
arXiv:2607. 27372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deep learning revolution, kicked off by AlexNet, taught us that end-to-end training beats decomposing a problem into hand-designed stages.
By Alexi Gladstone, Heng Ji, Yilun Du