arXiv Computer Vision By Sergey Karpukhin, Aibek Alanov

Scout-Refine-Correct: Teaching Flow Models to Refine Their Own Samples

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Scout-Refine-Correct (SRC) is a training recipe that equips flow-matching image generation models with an inference-time refinement capability. During sampling, the model performs a scout rollout to predict a full sample, uses this prediction as a self-conditioning signal, and then takes the actual step; this process can be repeated for multiple refinement rounds. On ImageNet-256, SRC improves LightningDiT-B’s FID from ~14.5 to ~7.26 with 550 normalised flow evaluations, matching a best-of‑N baseline that relies on an oracle verifier, and further reduces FID to 3.81 when combined with best-of‑N.

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