FAV aligns few-step generative models by amortizing SVGD updates from reward-tilted sampling into generator parameters via fixed-point regression, requiring only sample access, and shows outperformance on robotics tasks plus scaling on image generators.
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The choice of closeness measure in diffusion reward alignment determines the computational primitives and tractable reward classes, with linear exponential tilts sufficing for KL with convex rewards and proximal oracles for Wasserstein with concave or low-dimensional Lipschitz rewards.
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