Rectified flow

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Instead of taking many small steps in randomized directions to generate images by diffusion, we can hope to follow a straight or nearly straight path through the space of images, which will allow high-quality generation in few steps, maybe only a single step.

Video diffusion image math theory Instead of taking many small steps in randomized directions to generate images by diffusion, we can hope to follow a straight or nearly straight path through the space of images, which will allow high-quality generation in few steps, maybe only a single step.

Matthew Explains

North Coast Synthesis Ltd.

Rectified flow