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Image, video and audio generation — diffusion models, flow matching and the systems built on top of them.

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arXiv AI
Aug 11

RL-Native Distillation: Exploiting Scored Trajectories for Few-Step Image Generation

arXiv:2608. 09226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient text-to-image generation requires both reinforcement-learning (RL)-based reward alignment and few-step distillation, yet these procedures are typically performed sequentially, increasing training cost and risking the loss of reward gains during compression.

By Yuhan Li, Fangao Zeng, Sicong Kang, Mengfei Xu, Hao Zhou, Wei Li, Pipei Huang, Bingbing Ni
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Scaling Inherently Interpretable Language Models

arXiv:2608. 07594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interpretability is often treated as a tax on capability: language models are trained as opaque systems, then explained after the fact, with methods whose reliability is difficult to establish.

By Guide Labs Team, Andreas Madsen, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Giang Nguyen, Isaac Plant, Muawiz Chaudhary, Nathaniel Monson, Saqib Azim, Zhichen Guo, Julius Adebayo
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Findings of the First Teaching Monster Challenge: A Benchmark of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in AI Agents

arXiv:2608. 08852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can now solve problems, answer like subject experts, and generate long-form multimodal content.

By Yi-Cheng Lin, Yu-Kai Guo, Szu-Chi Chen, Bo-Han Feng, Yun-Man Hsu, Hsiang Hsieh, Yu-Jung Lin, Yue-Ling Wu, Jia-Kai Dong, An-Yu Cheng, Yu-Han Huang, Lok-Lam Ieong, Kuan-Yu Chen, Ming-Douo Tchouang, Shao-Hua Sun, Che Lin, Jian-Jiun Ding, Hung-yi Lee
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

DreOPD: Degraded-Reference Extrapolative On-Policy Distillation for Flow-matching Models

arXiv:2608. 09233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching models are now a mainstream method to image generation, but its adaptation to diverse downstream scenarios typically relies on post-training, which may cause conflicts among task-specific optimization objectives.

By Mingfeng Lin, Chengfei Cai, Lin Xu, Yuxiang Wei, Liang Han
arXiv AI
Aug 11

SDDBMs: Soft Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models

arXiv:2608. 08594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion bridge models leverage Doob's \(h\)-transform to construct stochastic transports between arbitrary endpoint distributions, and have shown strong potential in image-to-image translation and restoration.

By Shiyi Qi, Kun He, Mingmou Liu