Steepest Guidance: A Practical and Principled Approach to Inference-Time Alignment of Flow and Diffusion-based Models
Inference-time alignment of flow and diffusion-based models is critical for achieving flexible generative modeling. Theoretically, Doob's $h$-transform provides an elegant solution to this problem, and most existing methods are based on this principle. However, in practice, estimating the optimal guidance derived from...