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The post-training pipeline for diffusion models currently has two stages: supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on curated data and reinforcement learning (RL) with reward models. A fundamental gap separates them. SFT optimizes the denoiser only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 You Qin , Linqing Wang , Hao Fei , Roger Zimmermann , Liefeng Bo , Qinglin Lu , Chunyu Wang

Anderson mixing (AM) is an acceleration method for fixed-point iterations. Despite its success and wide usage in scientific computing, the convergence theory of AM remains unclear, and its applications to machine learning problems are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Fuchao Wei , Chenglong Bao , Yang Liu

Text-to-motion generation has advanced with diffusion- and flow-based generative models, yet supervised pretraining remains insufficient to align models with high-level objectives such as semantic consistency, realism, and human preference.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xiaofeng Tan , Wanjiang Weng , Hongsong Wang , Fang Zhao , Xin Geng , Liang Wang

Objective: The study aims to address the challenge of aligning Standard Fundus Images (SFIs) and Ultra-Widefield Fundus Images (UWFIs), which is difficult due to their substantial differences in viewing range and the amorphous appearance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kanggeon Lee , Su Jeong Song , Soochahn Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee

Aligning diffusion models with user preferences has been a key challenge. Existing methods for aligning diffusion models either require retraining or are limited to differentiable reward functions. To address these limitations, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Po-Hung Yeh , Kuang-Huei Lee , Jun-Cheng Chen

Diffusion Models (DMs) have exhibited superior performance in generating high-quality and diverse images. However, this exceptional performance comes at the cost of expensive architectural design, particularly due to the attention module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Hongjie Wang , Difan Liu , Yan Kang , Yijun Li , Zhe Lin , Niraj K. Jha , Yuchen Liu

Fine-tuning text-to-image diffusion models to maximize rewards has proven effective for enhancing model performance. However, reward fine-tuning methods often suffer from slow convergence due to online sample generation. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Daewon Chae , June Suk Choi , Jinkyu Kim , Kimin Lee

This tutorial provides an in-depth guide on inference-time guidance and alignment methods for optimizing downstream reward functions in diffusion models. While diffusion models are renowned for their generative modeling capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masatoshi Uehara , Yulai Zhao , Chenyu Wang , Xiner Li , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Tommaso Biancalani

We present DREAM, a novel training framework representing Diffusion Rectification and Estimation Adaptive Models, requiring minimal code changes (just three lines) yet significantly enhancing the alignment of training with sampling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jinxin Zhou , Tianyu Ding , Tianyi Chen , Jiachen Jiang , Ilya Zharkov , Zhihui Zhu , Luming Liang

Backpropagation-based approaches aim to align diffusion models with reward functions through end-to-end backpropagation of the reward gradient within the denoising chain, offering a promising perspective. However, due to the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiefan Guo , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo , Di Huang

Diffusion and flow-matching models have revolutionized automatic text-to-audio generation in recent times. These models are increasingly capable of generating high quality and faithful audio outputs capturing to speech and acoustic events.…

Recent advances in diffusion models have led to impressive image generation capabilities, but aligning these models with human preferences remains challenging. Reward-based fine-tuning using models trained on human feedback improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Dmitrii Sorokin , Maksim Nakhodnov , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

While methods exist for aligning flow matching models--a popular and effective class of generative models--with human preferences, existing approaches fail to achieve both adaptation efficiency and probabilistically sound prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhen Liu , Tim Z. Xiao , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Weiyang Liu , Dinghuai Zhang

Existing unlearning algorithms in text-to-image generative models often fail to preserve the knowledge of semantically related concepts when removing specific target concepts: a challenge known as adjacency. To address this, we propose FADE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kartik Thakral , Tamar Glaser , Tal Hassner , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Optimization algorithms with momentum, e.g., (ADAM), have been widely used for building deep learning models due to the faster convergence rates compared with stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Momentum helps accelerate SGD in the relevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Jiyang Bai , Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang

Flow Matching (FM) models achieve remarkable results in generative tasks. Building upon diffusion models, FM's simulation-free training paradigm enables simplicity and efficiency but introduces a train-inference gap: model outputs cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhaoyi Li , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li , Shihua Li

Since the advent of GANs and VAEs, image generation models have continuously evolved, opening up various real-world applications with the introduction of Stable Diffusion and DALL-E models. These text-to-image models can generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Hyunwoo Yoo

Deep diffusion models have revolutionized image generation by producing high-quality outputs. However, achieving specific objectives with these models often requires costly adaptations such as fine-tuning, which can be resource-intensive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Domício Pereira Neto , João Correia , Penousal Machado

Diffusion models currently dominate the field of data-driven image synthesis with their unparalleled scaling to large datasets. In this paper, we identify and rectify several causes for uneven and ineffective training in the popular ADM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Tero Karras , Miika Aittala , Jaakko Lehtinen , Janne Hellsten , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine

Stochastic optimal control (SOC) aims to direct the behavior of noisy systems and has widespread applications in science, engineering, and artificial intelligence. In particular, reward fine-tuning of diffusion and flow matching models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Carles Domingo-Enrich