Generative models have undergone many generations of evolution, from VAEs/GANs to diffusion/flow matching. Along the way, the underlying techniques have become more complicated and various beliefs about what drives strong empirical performance have taken hold.
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
arXiv:2509. 24935v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scalability has driven recent advances in generative modeling, yet its principles remain underexplored for adversarial learning.
By Sangeek Hyun, MinKyu Lee, Jae-Pil Heo
arXiv:2605. 00941v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flow matching has become a leading framework for generative modeling, but quantifying the uncertainty of its samples remains an open problem.
By Jiarui Xing, Song Wang, Jian Wang
arXiv:2506. 14753v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models are well known for their ability to generate a high-fidelity image for an input prompt through an iterative denoising process.
By Qinchan Li, Kenneth Chen, Changyue Su, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Qi Sun, Patsorn Sangkloy
arXiv:2605. 29920v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Midpoint Generative Models (MGM), a principled framework for training one-step generative models.
By Daniil Shlenskii, Nikita Gushchin, Lev Novitskiy, Dmitry V. Dylov, Alexander Korotin