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GenFirst strategy enables stable end-to-end latent generative modeling

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Researchers have introduced GenFirst, a novel strategy for stable end-to-end training of latent generative models. This approach addresses challenges like latent collapse and generation-reconstruction conflicts by prioritizing the generative objective before progressively strengthening reconstruction. GenFirst has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in image synthesis, achieving a gFID of 0.97 on ImageNet-256 with the SiT model, and also shows promise in unified text-to-image generation with the MMDiT model. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more stable and effective training of generative models for both images and multimodal data.

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GenFirst strategy enables stable end-to-end latent generative modeling

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    GenFirst: Generation Before Reconstruction for Stable End-to-End Latent Generative Modeling

    Direct end-to-end training of latent generative models avoids collapse via entropy preservation and asymmetric dynamics, using a generation-first strategy to achieve state-of-the-art image synthesis and unified multimodal generation.

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Guangting Zheng, Yiyuan Zhang, Tao Yang, Yunpeng Chen, Rui Zhu, Jiajun Deng, Yanyong Zhang ·

    GenFirst: Generation Before Reconstruction for Stable End-to-End Latent Generative Modeling

    arXiv:2608.29335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent generative models typically follow a two-stage pipeline, training a variational autoencoder for reconstruction and then a generative model on the frozen latent space. Since reconstruction-optimized latents are not necessarily…

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