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New algorithm aligns diffusion and flow models via black-box noise optimization

Researchers have developed a new trust-region based search algorithm (TRS) for aligning diffusion and flow models to specific rewards at inference time. This method treats the generative and reward models as black boxes, focusing solely on optimizing the source noise. TRS offers a balance between exploration and exploitation, requiring minimal hyperparameter tuning and proving versatile across various generative tasks like text-to-image generation, molecule design, and protein design. Evaluations show TRS significantly improves output samples compared to base models and other noise-optimization techniques. AI

IMPACT This new alignment technique could lead to more controllable and targeted outputs from generative AI models across various domains.

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New algorithm aligns diffusion and flow models via black-box noise optimization

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Niklas Schweiger, Daniel Cremers, Karnik Ram ·

    Trust-Region Noise Search for Black-Box Alignment of Diffusion and Flow Models

    arXiv:2603.14504v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing the noise samples of diffusion and flow models is an increasingly popular approach to align these models to target rewards at inference time. However, we observe that these approaches are usually restricted to d…