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The paper introduces ZeNOVA, a gradient‑free method for aligning initial noise in generative models. It uses annealed soft‑value guidance, manifold‑constrained hyperspherical Langevin dynamics, and Metropolis‑Hastings jumps to address instability in black‑box reward settings. Experiments on image and video models show ZeNOVA outperforms existing zeroth‑order baselines by more stably optimizing noise toward higher rewards.
arXiv:2606. 02453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the remarkable fidelity of generative models, they frequently suffer from mode collapse.
arXiv:2608.29647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To mitigate the time complexity of generative models, one-step generative models have recently emerged through direct mapping from noise to data in a s...
The paper introduces Contrastive Noise Alignment (CNA), a training-time method for generative flow models that dynamically aligns Gaussian noise with data samples using a cross-modal InfoNCE objective. By modeling noise as an interacting particle system and regularizing with angular entropy and radial norm penalties, CNA reduces arbitrary data-noise couplings and flow curvature. Empirical results show that CNA improves generation quality, lowering FID by over 50% for few-step pixel-space generation compared to standard rectified flow and outperforming optimal transport baselines by at least 24%.
arXiv:2603. 14504v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing the noise samples of diffusion and flow models is an increasingly popular approach to align these models to target rewards at inference time.
arXiv:2601. 14430v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Controlling generative models is computationally expensive.