High-fidelity image generation faces a trade-off between speed and quality. Diffusion models produce strong visuals but require costly iterative sampling. Existing efficient methods mainly distill pretrained models into few-step samplers, a challenging process that depends heavily on teacher-model quality. In this paper, we introduce XYZFlow, a framework that rethinks efficient generation through multidimensional scaling of flow matching. Unlike single-step mappings, XYZFlow enhances expressivity by making probability paths more identifiable and learnable through structured multidimensional conditioning. We view autoregressive modeling as implicit flow straightening, where richer context reduces trajectory ambiguity. XYZFlow realizes this idea through two orthogonal dimensions: temporal scaling, which uses non-Markovian conditioning on the full denoising history; and spatial scaling, enabled by Next Shortcut Prediction, which sequentially generates patches using preceding patches'denoising trajectories as priors. Experiments show that XYZFlow achieves state-of-the-art performance, with 7.2-8.5X teacher speedups and competitive FID, while Next Shortcut Prediction delivers superior quality-latency trade-offs over model scaling or step reduction.
This paper forms few-step generation as a controlled base generative process, and shows that self-consistency loss can be understood through the lens of optimal control, and draws a connection between this approach and reinforcement learning, potentially opening the door to a new set of approaches for few-step generation.
Paribesh Regmi, S. Ghimire, Rui Li· International Conference on...· 0 citations
PoseAdapter, a lightweight framework for high-fidelity 2.5D controllable image generation, and a Context-Aware Dual-Stream Representation, to resolve the generative trade-off between strict instance isolation and global coherence.
Yufeng Chi, Hui-Min Ma, Fan Gao et al.· 0 citations
Observation Operator Diffusion is proposed, a unified framework that aligns both the supervision trajectory and feature refinement with the intrinsic recovery order of image structures and introduces GL-CoDA, a decoder that injects scale-specific Gaussian-Lanczos observations across decoding stages for coarse-to-fine feature refinement.
Shaojie Guo, Lichen Ma, Haoyang Tong et al.· 0 citations
Energy-Guided Flow Matching is introduced that explicitly models a coarse-to-fine generative trajectory by moving endpoint that evolves smoothly from low-frequency image to clean image and requires no adaptation of the backbone and training data.
Diffusion models have achieved strong results in high-fidelity image synthesis, but their iterative sampling process makes large-scale generation computationally expensive. This limitation is especially relevant when generating synthetic face datasets for face recognition, where a large number of subjects with many samples in different poses, expressions, ages, etc., are required. In this work, we show that identity-conditioned face synthesis can be performed at a substantially lower computational cost by a latent Consistency Model with few iterations, without compromising image quality. For training, we distill knowledge from the foundation Diffusion Model Arc2Face (teacher) by adapting its original text-to-image pipeline to an embedding-to-face setting, replacing textual prompts with ArcFace identity embeddings. Our distilled model (student) generates identity-conditioned face images with an average inference time of 0.4819 seconds per image, compared with 2.102 seconds for Arc2Face, resulting in a 4.36$\times$ speed-up. Quantitative results, based on FID scores, show that the distilled model remains competitive with Arc2Face across all evaluation protocols. On 100k generated images, it achieves near-parity on CelebA (13.921 vs. 12.928) and outperforms the teacher on WebFace42M (9.317 vs. 9.802). Further evaluations on Synth-500 and AgeDB show a moderate performance gap for the former but comparable results for the latter. These results indicate that Arc2Face can be accelerated through task-specific latent consistency distillation while preserving high image quality for large-scale synthetic face generation. Our proposal is publicly available at https://github.com/UFPR-IPASP-PR/FaceRec-IdentityConsistency.
Tiago Kienen Chaves, Bernardo Biesseck, David Menotti· 0 citations
UGDiff, a novel diffusion guidance paradigm designed to further improve the perception-distortion balance, is introduced, which first estimates the reconstruction uncertainty of the latent features corresponding to a high-fidelity image and guides the diffusion process to selectively restore high-frequency details in high-uncertainty regions, while preserving fidelity elsewhere.
Ren Wang, Yung-Yu Chuang· International Conference on...· 0 citations
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