New Energy-Guided Flow Matching Boosts Image Gen Efficiency, FID to 1.55

burny_tech · x · 2026-08-09

This research introduces Energy-Guided Flow Matching (EG-FM), improving flow matching by introducing sample-adaptive, coarse-to-fine generative trajectories.

Using a heat-kernel-filtered endpoint, the method progressively reveals high-frequency details based on spectral energy, requiring almost no changes to the backbone or inference cost. On the ImageNet 256x256 class-conditional image generation task, EG-FM achieves lower FID with fewer epochs (1.55 at 200 epochs, 1.45 at 600 epochs). It also scores 0.85 on GenEval for text-to-image generation.

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