Training-Free Hidden-State Refinement for Flow-Matching Image Generators
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arXiv:2608.29160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We aim to improve frozen flow-matching image generators by adding inference computation inside the denoiser, without changing model weights or the outer sampler. Existing generators usually spend extra test-time computation by increasing the number of sampling steps, which repeatedly evaluates the entire denoiser and couples quality gains to sampler cost. A key challenge is how to use extra computation inside a frozen transformer denoiser: the method must decide which tokens, layers, and sampling times receive repeated updates while preserving
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.29160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We aim to improve frozen flow-matching image generators by adding inference computation inside the denoiser, without changing model weights or the outer sampler.
- Existing generators usually spend extra test-time computation by increasing the number of sampling steps, which repeatedly evaluates the entire denoiser and couples quality gains to sampler cost.
- A key challenge is how to use extra computation inside a frozen transformer denoiser: the method must decide which tokens, layers, and sampling times receive repeated updates while preserving
Why it matters
This model development creates a new option for users and a new testing obligation for developers. A fixed evaluation set comparing quality, cost and failure behavior is more useful than launch claims.

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