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Generative models, including diffusion and flow-based models, often exhibit systematic biases that degrade sample quality, particularly in high-dimensional settings. We revisit refinement methods and show that effective bias correction can…

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We present DistillFlow, a knowledge distillation approach to learning optical flow. DistillFlow trains multiple teacher models and a student model, where challenging transformations are applied to the input of the student model to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Pengpeng Liu , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King , Jia Xu

Diffusion Probability Models (DPMs) have made impressive advancements in various machine learning domains. However, achieving high-quality synthetic samples typically involves performing a large number of sampling steps, which impedes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Shitong Shao , Xu Dai , Lujun Li , Huanran Chen , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

Rectified Flow text-to-image models surpass diffusion models in image quality and text alignment, but adapting ReFlow for real-image editing remains challenging. We propose a new real-image editing method for ReFlow by analyzing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jimyeong Kim , Jungwon Park , Yeji Song , Nojun Kwak , Wonjong Rhee

Denoising generative models, such as diffusion and flow-based models, produce high-quality samples but require many denoising steps due to discretization error. Flow maps, which estimate the average velocity between timesteps, mitigate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Kyungmin Lee , Sihyun Yu , Jinwoo Shin

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a promising direction for vision-language tasks, offering bidirectional context modeling and theoretical parallelization. However, their practical application is severely hindered by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yatai Ji , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Zhiheng Liu , Sidi Yang , Ying Shan , Ping Luo

In Rectified Flow, by obtaining the rectified flow several times, the mapping relationship between distributions can be distilled into a neural network, and the target distribution can be directly predicted by the straight lines of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ling Feng , SK Yang

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved great success in image generation and other fields. By fine sampling through the trajectory defined by the SDE/ODE solver based on a well-trained score model, DMs can generate remarkable high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Bowen Zheng , Tianming Yang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard technique for post-training diffusion-based image synthesis models, as it enables learning from reward signals to explicitly improve desirable aspects such as image quality and prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 David McAllister , Miika Aittala , Tero Karras , Janne Hellsten , Angjoo Kanazawa , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine

Diffusion Models have emerged as a leading class of generative models, yet their iterative sampling process remains computationally expensive. Timestep distillation is a promising technique to accelerate generation, but it often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Guanjie Chen , Shirui Huang , Kai Liu , Jianchen Zhu , Xiaoye Qu , Peng Chen , Yu Cheng , Yifu Sun

Flow-based image generative models exhibit stable training and produce high quality samples when using multi-step sampling procedures. One-step generative models can produce high quality image samples but can be difficult to optimize as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chia-Hong Hsu , Frank Wood

Customizing diffusion models to generate identity-preserving images from user-provided reference images is an intriguing new problem. The prevalent approaches typically require training on extensive domain-specific images to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Zhicheng Sun , Zhenhao Yang , Yang Jin , Haozhe Chi , Kun Xu , Kun Xu , Liwei Chen , Hao Jiang , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Yadong Mu

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have shown remarkable potential in image generation, but their sampling efficiency is hindered by the need for numerous denoising steps. Most existing solutions accelerate the sampling process by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Guangyi Wang , Yuren Cai , Lijiang Li , Wei Peng , Songzhi Su

Recent advances in large multi-modal generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multi-modal generation, including image and video generation. These models are typically built upon multi-step frameworks like diffusion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhenglin Cheng , Peng Sun , Jianguo Li , Tao Lin

Despite tremendous recent progress, Flow Matching methods still suffer from exposure bias due to discrepancies in training and inference. This paper investigates the root causes of exposure bias in Flow Matching, including: (1) the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Guanbo Huang , Jingjia Mao , Fanding Huang , Fengkai Liu , Xiangyang Luo , Yaoyuan Liang , Jiasheng Lu , Xiaoe Wang , Pei Liu , Ruiliu Fu , Shao-Lun Huang

In multi-center scenarios, One-Shot Federated Learning (OSFL) has attracted increasing attention due to its low communication overhead, requiring only a single round of transmission. However, existing generative model-based OSFL methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yufei Ma , Hanwen Zhang , Qiya Yang , Guibo Luo , Yuesheng Zhu

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

Multi-step prediction models, such as diffusion and rectified flow models, have emerged as state-of-the-art solutions for generation tasks. However, these models exhibit higher latency in sampling new frames compared to single-step methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gaurav Shrivastava , Abhinav Shrivastava

Recently, the rectified flow (RF) has emerged as the new state-of-the-art among flow-based diffusion models due to its high efficiency advantage in straight path sampling, especially with the amazing images generated by a series of RF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zhiyuan Ma , Ruixun Liu , Sixian Liu , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have established a new state-of-the-art in generative image synthesis, yet their deployment is hindered by significant computational overhead during inference, often requiring up to 1,000…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Srishti Gupta , Yashasvee Taiwade