3 papers
cs.CV2026
An Empirical Study of Training Pixel-Space Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Dengyang Jiang, Ruoyi Du, Zhennan Chen +10
This paper investigates an increasingly important topic in generative modeling: pixel-space diffusion models. Although numerous studies have explored this topic, most focus on smal…
cs.CV2026
Z-Reward: Beyond Scalar Rewards by Internalizing Reasoning into Score Distributions
Xin Jin, Huanqia Cai, Zhen Li +9
Reward models are central to text-to-image post-training, but visual preference is subjective and better represented as a distribution over rubric scores than as a deterministic sc…
cs.CV2026
High-Fidelity Two-Step Image Generation via Teacher-Aligned End-to-End Distillation
Dongyang Liu, Ruoyi Du, David Liu +7
Few-step diffusion distillation has become increasingly mature for 4-8-step generation, yet pushing further to 2 steps remains challenging. In this work, we introduce Z-Image Turbo…