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most citedScaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

89 citations · 370 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.GR2025★ 8 cited

FLUX.1 Kontext: Flow Matching for In-Context Image Generation and Editing in Latent Space

Black Forest Labs, Stephen Batifol, Andreas Blattmann +18

We present evaluation results for FLUX.1 Kontext, a generative flow matching model that unifies image generation and editing. The model generates novel output views by incorporatin…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Fast High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Adversarial Diffusion Distillation

Axel Sauer, Frederic Boesel, Tim Dockhorn +3

Diffusion models are the main driver of progress in image and video synthesis, but suffer from slow inference speed. Distillation methods, like the recently introduced adversarial…

cs.CV2024★ 89 cited

Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

Patrick Esser, Sumith Kulal, Andreas Blattmann +14

Diffusion models create data from noise by inverting the forward paths of data towards noise and have emerged as a powerful generative modeling technique for high-dimensional, perc…

cs.CV2023★ 14 cited

Adversarial Diffusion Distillation

Axel Sauer, Dominik Lorenz, Andreas Blattmann +1

We introduce Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), a novel training approach that efficiently samples large-scale foundational image diffusion models in just 1-4 steps while ma…

cs.LG2023★ 61 cited

StyleGAN-T: Unlocking the Power of GANs for Fast Large-Scale Text-to-Image Synthesis

Axel Sauer, Tero Karras, Samuli Laine +2

Text-to-image synthesis has recently seen significant progress thanks to large pretrained language models, large-scale training data, and the introduction of scalable model familie…

cs.CV2022★ 54 cited

VoxGRAF: Fast 3D-Aware Image Synthesis with Sparse Voxel Grids

Katja Schwarz, Axel Sauer, Michael Niemeyer +2

State-of-the-art 3D-aware generative models rely on coordinate-based MLPs to parameterize 3D radiance fields. While demonstrating impressive results, querying an MLP for every samp…

cs.LG2022★ 20 cited

StyleGAN-XL: Scaling StyleGAN to Large Diverse Datasets

Axel Sauer, Katja Schwarz, Andreas Geiger

Computer graphics has experienced a recent surge of data-centric approaches for photorealistic and controllable content creation. StyleGAN in particular sets new standards for gene…

cs.CV2021

Projected GANs Converge Faster

Axel Sauer, Kashyap Chitta, Jens Müller +1

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce high-quality images but are challenging to train. They need careful regularization, vast amounts of compute, and expensive hyper-para…

cs.RO2021★ 27 cited

Zoomorphic Gestures for Communicating Cobot States

Vanessa Sauer, Axel Sauer, Alexander Mertens

Communicating the robot state is vital to creating an efficient and trustworthy collaboration between humans and collaborative robots (cobots). Standard approaches for Robot-to-hum…

cs.LG2021★ 29 cited

Counterfactual Generative Networks

Axel Sauer, Andreas Geiger

Neural networks are prone to learning shortcuts -- they often model simple correlations, ignoring more complex ones that potentially generalize better. Prior works on image classif…

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

How to Make Deep RL Work in Practice

Nirnai Rao, Elie Aljalbout, Axel Sauer +1

In recent years, challenging control problems became solvable with deep reinforcement learning (RL). To be able to use RL for large-scale real-world applications, a certain degree…

cs.CV2019★ 29 cited

Tracking Holistic Object Representations

Axel Sauer, Elie Aljalbout, Sami Haddadin

Recent advances in visual tracking are based on siamese feature extractors and template matching. For this category of trackers, latest research focuses on better feature embedding…

cs.RO2018★ 29 cited

Conditional Affordance Learning for Driving in Urban Environments

Axel Sauer, Nikolay Savinov, Andreas Geiger

Most existing approaches to autonomous driving fall into one of two categories: modular pipelines, that build an extensive model of the environment, and imitation learning approach…