NoisEasier: Test-Time Noise Optimization for Text-to-Video Generation
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Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have emerged as a fast, high-quality alternative to diffusion for text-to-image generation, but like diffusion models they exhibit persistent compositional failures,...
VISTA is a gradient‑based test‑time alignment framework designed for next‑scale visual autoregressive (VAR) image generation. It optimizes intermediate representations within the frozen transformer to enforce compositional constraints, without altering model weights or requiring extra training. Experiments on two benchmarks and two model scales show that VISTA improves compositional accuracy by up to 20% on a 2B backbone and 6% on an 8B backbone, while preserving image quality and enabling a smaller model to outperform a larger one.
The paper introduces Noise Policy Optimization (NPO), a method for aligning few-step generative models with black-box reward signals. NPO learns an amortized flow policy that transforms initial Gaussian noise into a reward-tilted distribution, allowing the pretrained generator to produce higher-reward outputs without fine-tuning. The approach achieves superior reward-quality trade-offs across image, language, and protein generation tasks while drastically reducing inference cost compared to test-time search methods.
CoRe introduces a co‑evolving reward framework to mitigate latent reward hacking in video diffusion models. By continuously refitting the latent‑reward model on the generator’s current samples and anchoring it to real‑video preferences, CoRe prevents the generator from drifting outside the reward model’s training support. Experiments on Wan2.1‑T2V‑1.3B demonstrate that CoRe improves generation quality over pretrained models and prior alignment methods while avoiding quality collapse.
Modern black-box Image-to-Video (I2V) models offer powerful capabilities in automated content creation, yet their lack of fine-grained control and reliability presents significant challenges in professional workflows. Their inherent stochasticity causes minor variations in textual prompts or hyperparameters to yield drastically different outputs often necessitating inefficient, brute-force trial-and-error processes.
arXiv:2606. 09635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ensuring the reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs) under distribution drift requires inference-time adaptation.