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While large-scale video diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-resolution and semantically rich content, a significant gap remains between their pretraining performance and real-world deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zeyue Xue , Siming Fu , Jie Huang , Shuai Lu , Haoran Li , Yijun Liu , Yuming Li , Xiaoxuan He , Mengzhao Chen , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Ping Luo

In the era of foundation models, fine-tuning pre-trained models for specific downstream tasks has become crucial. This drives the need for robust fine-tuning methods to address challenges such as model overfitting and sparse labeling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shikun Liu , Deyu Zou , Nima Shoghi , Victor Fung , Kai Liu , Pan Li

We propose a simple, scalable algorithm for using stochastic interpolants to sample from unnormalized densities and for fine-tuning generative models. The approach, Tilt Matching, arises from a dynamical equation relating the flow matching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Peter Potaptchik , Cheuk-Kit Lee , Michael S. Albergo

While Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Rejection Sampling Fine-Tuning (RFT) are standard for LLM alignment, they either rely on costly expert data or discard valuable negative samples, leading to data inefficiency. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zehua Liu , Shuqi Liu , Tao Zhong , Mingxuan Yuan

Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) on flow-based models is crucial for preference alignment. However, they often introduce visual hallucinations like over-optimized details and semantic misalignment. This work preliminarily explores why visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiaofeng Tan , Jun Liu , Yuanting Fan , Bin-Bin Gao , Xi Jiang , Xiaochen Chen , Jinlong Peng , Chengjie Wang , Hongsong Wang , Feng Zheng

Controlling generative models is computationally expensive. This is because optimal alignment with a reward function--whether via inference-time steering or fine-tuning--requires estimating the value function. This task demands access to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-22 Peter Potaptchik , Adhi Saravanan , Abbas Mammadov , Alvaro Prat , Michael S. Albergo , Yee Whye Teh

Traditional supervised fine-tuning (SFT) strategies for sequence-to-sequence tasks often train models to directly generate the target output. Recent work has shown that guiding models with intermediate steps, such as keywords, outlines, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Senyu Li , Zipeng Sun , Jiayi Wang , Xue Liu , Pontus Stenetorp , Siva Reddy , David Ifeoluwa Adelani

This paper proposes a novel approach to address the challenge that pretrained VLA models often fail to effectively improve performance and reduce adaptation costs during standard supervised finetuning (SFT). Some advanced finetuning methods…

Guidance of generative models is typically achieved by modifying the probability flow vector field through the addition of a guidance field. In this paper, we instead propose the Source-Guided Flow Matching (SGFM) framework, which modifies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Zifan Wang , Alice Harting , Matthieu Barreau , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

We present Direct Reward Fine-Tuning (DRaFT), a simple and effective method for fine-tuning diffusion models to maximize differentiable reward functions, such as scores from human preference models. We first show that it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Kevin Clark , Paul Vicol , Kevin Swersky , David J Fleet

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

Robust fine-tuning aims to achieve competitive in-distribution (ID) performance while maintaining the out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness of a pre-trained model when transferring it to a downstream task. Recently, projected gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Junjiao Tian , Yen-Cheng Liu , James Seale Smith , Zsolt Kira

Boltzmann Generators have emerged as a promising machine learning tool for generating samples from equilibrium distributions of molecular systems using Normalizing Flows and importance weighting. Recently, Flow Matching has helped speed up…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Lorenz Vaitl , Leon Klein

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has become a common method for fine-tuning large language models, where a base model can serve multiple users through PEFT module switching. To enhance user experience, base models require periodic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Naibin Gu , Peng Fu , Xiyu Liu , Ke Ma , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

This paper investigates the connections between rectified flows, flow matching, and optimal transport. Flow matching is a recent approach to learning generative models by estimating velocity fields that guide transformations from a source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Johannes Hertrich , Antonin Chambolle , Julie Delon

Recent advances in text-to-video diffusion models have enabled high-quality video synthesis, but controllable generation remains challenging, particularly under limited data and compute. Existing fine-tuning methods for conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kinam Kim , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the workhorse for steering large diffusion models toward text-conditioned targets, yet its native application to rectified flow (RF) based models provokes severe off-manifold drift, yielding visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shreshth Saini , Shashank Gupta , Alan C. Bovik

Recent text-driven motion generation methods span both discrete token-based approaches and continuous-latent formulations. MotionGPT3 exemplifies the latter paradigm, combining a learned continuous motion latent space with a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jaymin Ban , JiHong Jeon , SangYeop Jeong

Aligning features from different modalities, is one of the most fundamental challenges for cross-modal tasks. Although pre-trained vision-language models can achieve a general alignment between image and text, they often require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ziqi Jiang , Yanghao Wang , Long Chen

Recommender systems are often asked to serve multiple recommendation scenarios or domains. Fine-tuning a pre-trained CTR model from source domains and adapting it to a target domain allows knowledge transferring. However, optimizing all the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Xiangli Yang , Qing Liu , Rong Su , Ruiming Tang , Zhirong Liu , Xiuqiang He