Awesome Training & Sampling
Training & Sampling is one of the most active areas in Awesome Generative Models β 1,084 papers in this collection, evaluated on datasets like CIFAR-10, ImageNet, MNIST. A strong starting point is "InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation".
Datasets & benchmarks
Key papers
- InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation (2026)Dian Zheng et al.14.38
- tempoGAN: A Temporally Coherent, Volumetric GAN for Super-resolution
Fluid Flow (2018)You Xie et al.10.12
- Reflect-DiT: Inference-Time Scaling for Text-to-Image Diffusion
Transformers via In-Context Reflection (2025)Shufan Li et al.9.29
- Qwen-Image-Flash: Beyond Objective Design (2026)Tianhe Wu et al.8.85
- Learning Few-Step Diffusion Models by Trajectory Distribution Matching (2025)Yihong Luo et al.8.84
- Invertible generative models for inverse problems: mitigating representation error and dataset bias (2019)Muhammad Asim et al.8.66
- Contrastive Flow Matching (2025)George Stoica et al.8.23
- Generative Modeling via Drifting (2026)Mingyang Deng et al.7.47
- CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer (2024)Zhuoyi Yang et al.7.30
- Deeply Supervised Flow-Based Generative Models (2025)Inkyu Shin et al.7.24
- Avatar V: Scaling Video-Reference Avatar Video Generation (2026)Benjamin Liang et al.6.97
- Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds (2025)Stanislaw Szymanowicz and Jason Y. Zhang and Pratul Srinivasan and Ruiqi Gao and Arthur Brussee and Aleksander Holynski and Ricardo Martin-Brualla and Jonathan T. Barron and Philipp Henzler6.92
- On the Challenges and Opportunities in Generative AI (2024)Laura Manduchi et al.6.89
- Glance: Accelerating Diffusion Models with 1 Sample (2025)Zhuobai Dong et al.6.89
- Arbitrary-steps Image Super-resolution via Diffusion Inversion (2024)Zongsheng Yue et al.6.61
- Automated Tuning for Diffusion Inverse Problem Solvers without Generative Prior Retraining (2025)Ya\c{s}ar Utku Al\c{c}alar et al.5.98
- Modular MeanFlow: Towards Stable and Scalable One-Step Generative Modeling (2025)Haochen You et al.5.93
- Fast-DDPM: Fast Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Medical Image-to-Image Generation (2024)Hongxu Jiang et al.5.40
- Recursively Trained Diffusion Models: Limiting Collapse Distribution and Spectral Characterization (2026)Na\"il B. Khelifa et al.5.01
- Adaptive Nucleus Truncation for Long-Form Reasoning (2026)Ousmane Amadou Dia5.01
- GenDR: Lighten Generative Detail Restoration (2025)Yan Wang et al.4.87
- The GAN is dead; long live the GAN! A Modern GAN Baseline (2025)Yiwen Huang et al.4.76
- Learning Diffusion Priors from Observations by Expectation Maximization (2024)Fran\c{c}ois Rozet et al.4.74
- Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think (2024)Sihyun Yu et al.4.60
- Nepotistically Trained Generative-AI Models Collapse (2023)Matyas Bohacek and Hany Farid4.40
- Anatomy of Post-Training: Using Interpretability to Characterize Data and Shape the Learning Signal (2026)Leon Bergen et al.4.39
- When Sample Selection Bias Precipitates Model Collapse (2026)Xinbao Qiao et al.4.39
- Compressing Image Style Training into a Single Model Forward (2026)Zhongjie Duan et al.4.39
- Mask, Sample, Revise: A Revisable CTMC Inference Stack for Guided Discrete Flow Matching Text-to-Speech (2026)Alef Iury Siqueira Ferreira et al.4.39
- Implicit Variational Rejection Sampling (2026)Jian Xu et al.4.39
- Neither Parallel Nor Sequential: How DiffusionGemma Actually Commits Tokens (2026)Ali Asaria et al.4.39
- Generative Models and Statistical Validation (2026)Sascha Diefenbacher et al.4.33
- Unsupervised Diffusion Solver for Combinatorial Optimization via Combinatorial Adjoint Matching (2026)Shengyu Feng et al.4.33
- SSDD: Single-Step Diffusion Decoder for Efficient Image Tokenization (2025)Th\'eophane Vallaeys et al.4.28
- Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines (2024)Dani Valevski et al.3.97
- Denoising Multi-Beta VAE: Representation Learning for Disentanglement and Generation (2025)Anshuk Uppal et al.3.92
- Conditional Variational Diffusion Models (2023)Gabriel della Maggiora et al.3.91
- Mean Flows for One-step Generative Modeling (2025)Zhengyang Geng et al.3.81
- DP-LDMs: Differentially Private Latent Diffusion Models (2023)Michael F. Liu et al.3.71
- It\^o maps for any-step SDEs (2026)Zhengkai Pan et al.3.51
- MP3: Multi-Period Pattern Pre-training for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting (2026)Lilan Peng et al.3.51
- Pix2Pix-Hybrid: Structure-Guided Conditional Synthesis of Hajj Crowd Images with Multi-Channel Conditioning and Weak Attribute Supervision (2026)Amirah F. Alshammari et al.3.51
- Point Cloud Upsampling through Patch-based Frequency Superposition (2026)Marina Ritthaler et al.3.51
- HPSv3++: Scaling Reward Models Across the Full Spectrum of Diffusion Model Capabilities (2026)Yijun Liu et al.3.51
- Instruct-Particulate: Scaling Feed-Forward 3D Object Articulation with Kinematic Control (2026)Ruining Li et al.3.51
- D-OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continuously Tuning Step-Distilled Diffusion Models (2026)Dengyang Jiang et al.3.45
- Paris 2.0: A Decentralized Diffusion Model for Video Generation (2026)Ali Rouzbayani et al.3.45
- One Step Diffusion via Shortcut Models (2024)Kevin Frans et al.3.42
- Adjoint Matching: Fine-tuning Flow and Diffusion Generative Models with
Memoryless Stochastic Optimal Control (2024)Carles Domingo-Enrich et al.3.36
- Conditional Image Synthesis with Diffusion Models: A Survey (2024)Zheyuan Zhan et al.3.36
- Stop Training for the Worst: Progressive Unmasking Accelerates Masked Diffusion Training (2026)Jaeyeon Kim et al.3.28
- Deep Dense Exploration for LLM Reinforcement Learning via Pivot-Driven Resampling (2026)Yiran Guo et al.3.28
- RAD: Region-Aware Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting (2024)Sora Kim et al.3.26
- DEFT: Efficient Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models by Learning the Generalised $h$-transform (2024)Alexander Denker et al.3.20
- Improving Diversity In Black-box Few-shot Knowledge Distillation (2026)Tri-Nhan Vo, Dang Nguyen, Kien Do, et al.3.20
- Generation of non-stationary stochastic fields using Generative
Adversarial Networks (2022)Alhasan Abdellatif et al.3.19
- Home-made Diffusion Model from Scratch to Hatch (2025)Shih-Ying Yeh3.17
- Conditioning diffusion models by explicit forward-backward bridging (2024)Adrien Corenflos et al.3.14
- Bridging GANs and Bayesian Neural Networks via Partial Stochasticity (2025)Maurizio Filippone and Marius P. Linhard2.99
- Diffusion models for multivariate subsurface generation and efficient probabilistic inversion (2025)Roberto Miele et al.2.99