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arxiv: 2606.28226 · v1 · pith:WJGQVYGQnew · submitted 2026-06-26 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

Exposure Bias Can Alleviate Itself via Directional and Frequency Rectification in Flow Matching

Guanbo Huang , Jingjia Mao , Fanding Huang , Fengkai Liu , Xiangyang Luo , Yaoyuan Liang , Jiasheng Lu , Xiaoe Wang
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Exposure bias in flow matching contains signals that the model can use to correct its own drift and frequency gaps.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper argues that exposure bias, the mismatch between training and inference in flow matching, carries dynamic signals that can guide the model's own rectification instead of requiring external fixes. By simulating single-step inference during training, the approach extracts directional and frequency information from the bias itself to adjust the model. This leads to a framework that improves the model's tolerance to inference discrepancies. A sympathetic reader would care because it reframes a known limitation as a built-in feedback mechanism for more stable generation. If the claim holds, generative models could develop intrinsic self-correction without added constraints or heuristics.

Core claim

The paper establishes that exposure bias itself inherently contains dynamic signals that can guide its own rectification. The DEFAR framework simulates the single-step inference process during training to identify the bias, then applies Anti-Drift Rectification to learn steering directions from drifted states and Frequency Compensation to use the bias as a self-feedback weighting factor for missing low-frequency components in high-noise stages. This endows the model with intrinsic active self-rectification capabilities, resulting in improved performance over prior baselines on CIFAR-10, CelebA-64, and ImageNet-256/512.

What carries the argument

DEFAR (DirEctional-Frequency Adaptive Rectification) framework, where Anti-Drift Rectification learns correction directions from inference drift and Frequency Compensation reinforces missing frequencies using bias-derived weights.

Load-bearing premise

The single-step inference simulation during training accurately identifies and quantifies the exposure bias that arises during full inference, and the observed lack of low-frequency components generalizes beyond the tested datasets.

What would settle it

Train a model with DEFAR using single-step simulation, then run full multi-step inference with a step count far larger than the simulation and check if output quality still exceeds baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.28226 by Fanding Huang, Fengkai Liu, Guanbo Huang, Jiasheng Lu, Jingjia Mao, Pei Liu, Ruiliu Fu, Ruqi Huang, Shao-Lun Huang, Xiangyang Luo, Xiaoe Wang, Yaoyuan Liang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of exposure bias in Flow Matching. (i) During training, the model is conditioned on perturbed inputs sampled strictly along the ideal linear path (blue arrows). (ii) During inference, the in￾put suffers from accumulated errors gen￾erated by previous steps, causing training￾inference mismatch (purple arrows). While prior research has explored this issue within the DDPM frame￾work [12, 31, 32, 4… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of DEFAR. (a) Anti-Drift Rectification: Introduces a learning target that actively guides the model from the drift-affected distribution back toward the data distribution. (b) Frequency Compensation: Reweights the original ob￾jective using exposure bias as a negative-feedback signal to mitigate low-frequency deficiency at relatively high-noise timesteps (e.g., t0). Together, DEFAR adaptively recti… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Motivation and Verification of FC. (a) illustrates frequency trends de￾rived from forward-perturbed inputs, while (b) reveals contrasting trends using inputs generated via single-step inference. In (b), for any starting timestep t0, the exposure bias PFR is averaged over all subsequent sampled timesteps t1 ∈ (t0, 1], capturing the cumulative impact across varying inference intervals. (c) visualizes the hea… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative Comparison. DEFAR produces the most realistic samples on ImageNet-256 and CelebA-64. Red boxes highlight the blurriness or distorted details. sates for deficient frequency components, achieving consistent empirical gains over these approaches. (v) In Tab. 2 (right), the DG and mini-batch OT com￾parisons further verify complementarity. For DG, DEFAR improves FID by 0.52 over DG alone, and combin… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Low-frequency Restora￾tion. After comparable training, DEFAR can compensate for miss￾ing low-frequency components dur￾ing high-noise timesteps (Red box) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison across methods on ImageNet-256. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative comparison across methods on CelebA-64. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative results on ImageNet-256. The samples are generated by our DEFAR-XL/2+ model with 50 NFEs and a CFG scale of 4.0. The results demon￾strate the model’s exceptional capability to synthesize structurally complex scenes and fine-grained details (e.g., intricate animal fur and natural reflections) with high visual fidelity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Exposure bias highlights low-frequency structures in images. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_9.png] view at source ↗
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Flow Matching (FM) has achieved remarkable generative performance, yet it suffers from exposure bias due to discrepancies between training and inference. Existing mitigation strategies typically rely on static constraints or external heuristics. In this work, we propose that exposure bias itself inherently contains dynamic signals that can guide its own rectification. To leverage this, we introduce DEFAR (DirEctional-Frequency Adaptive Rectification). This framework simulates the single-step inference process during training to identify exposure bias. It utilizes directional and frequency-adaptive feedback signals from the bias itself to enhance the model's bias tolerance. It consists of two key components: (1) Anti-Drift Rectification (ADR). ADR treats inference-time drift as a signal to learn the direction to steer deviated states back toward the target. ADR endows the model with intrinsic active self-rectification capabilities; (2) Frequency Compensation (FC). Empirically, we observe that accumulated bias often stems from a lack of low-frequency components in high-noise stages, and exposure bias carries the missing frequency. FC leverages the bias itself as a self-feedback weighting factor to reinforce the missing frequency components. Experiments on CIFAR-10, CelebA-64, and ImageNet-256/512 show that DEFAR outperforms prior baselines and further demonstrates favorable scalability, compatibility, and inference robustness.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that exposure bias in Flow Matching inherently contains dynamic signals (directional drift and missing low-frequency content) that can be used to rectify itself. It introduces DEFAR, which simulates single-step inference during training to extract these signals and applies two components: Anti-Drift Rectification (ADR) to learn steering directions for deviated states, and Frequency Compensation (FC) to reinforce missing low-frequency components using bias-derived weights. Experiments demonstrate that DEFAR outperforms prior baselines on CIFAR-10, CelebA-64, and ImageNet-256/512 while showing scalability and inference robustness.

Significance. If the empirical gains hold under the proposed self-rectification mechanism, the work provides a parameter-light alternative to external heuristics for exposure bias in flow matching, with potential for broader applicability in iterative generative models. The explicit use of bias signals as feedback is a distinctive framing that could influence future training-inference alignment strategies.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] The central claim rests on single-step inference simulation during training producing bias signals representative of full multi-step trajectories (§3.2 and Algorithm 1). Exposure bias accumulates via iterative discretization error; a one-step proxy may miss compounding drift and frequency shifts that only emerge after many steps, directly affecting the validity of both ADR and FC.
  2. [Table 2, Figure 4] Table 2 and Figure 4 report consistent gains, but without ablations isolating the contribution of the single-step proxy versus the rectification modules themselves, it is unclear whether the observed improvements stem from the proposed self-feedback or from auxiliary regularization effects.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.3] Notation for the frequency weighting factor in FC is introduced without an explicit equation; adding a numbered equation would clarify how the bias-derived weight is computed from the simulated trajectory.
  2. [Abstract] The abstract states 'exposure bias carries the missing frequency' without a supporting plot or quantitative measure in the main text; a supplementary figure showing the frequency spectrum of the bias signal would strengthen the empirical observation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comments, providing clarifications and indicating planned revisions where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] The central claim rests on single-step inference simulation during training producing bias signals representative of full multi-step trajectories (§3.2 and Algorithm 1). Exposure bias accumulates via iterative discretization error; a one-step proxy may miss compounding drift and frequency shifts that only emerge after many steps, directly affecting the validity of both ADR and FC.

    Authors: We acknowledge that exposure bias accumulates iteratively. Our single-step simulation is deliberately local: at each training point it extracts the instantaneous directional drift and frequency discrepancy that arise from one discretization step. Because training repeatedly samples along the entire trajectory, these local signals are encountered at every noise level; the ADR and FC modules are optimized to correct them on the fly. This yields a model whose learned velocity field is inherently more tolerant to accumulated error, as confirmed by the improved long-horizon FID and robustness results. We will expand §3.2 with a paragraph clarifying this local-to-global transfer argument and its relation to prior single-step approximations in iterative generative models. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Table 2, Figure 4] Table 2 and Figure 4 report consistent gains, but without ablations isolating the contribution of the single-step proxy versus the rectification modules themselves, it is unclear whether the observed improvements stem from the proposed self-feedback or from auxiliary regularization effects.

    Authors: We agree that explicit isolation is needed. In the revision we will add two sets of ablations to Table 2: (i) replacing the single-step simulation with ground-truth states (oracle) while keeping ADR+FC, and (ii) ablating ADR and FC individually while retaining the simulation. These controls will quantify how much of the gain is attributable to the self-derived bias signals versus generic regularization, and the results will be discussed alongside Figure 4. revision: yes

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The provided abstract and description contain no equations, derivations, or mathematical claims that reduce to fitted inputs or self-citations. DEFAR is described as an empirical training procedure using single-step simulation for feedback signals, but without any visible formal reduction (e.g., a parameter fitted to bias then renamed as prediction of bias), no circularity steps can be exhibited. The skeptic concern targets validity of the single-step proxy assumption rather than definitional equivalence. This is the default honest outcome when technical content is absent.

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