Delta Rectified Flow Sampling for Text-to-Image Editing

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Auteurs principaux: Beaudouin, Gaspard, Li, Minghan, Kim, Jaeyeon, Yoon, Sung-Hoon, Wang, Mengyu
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author Beaudouin, Gaspard
Li, Minghan
Kim, Jaeyeon
Yoon, Sung-Hoon
Wang, Mengyu
author_facet Beaudouin, Gaspard
Li, Minghan
Kim, Jaeyeon
Yoon, Sung-Hoon
Wang, Mengyu
contents We propose Delta Rectified Flow Sampling (DRFS), a novel inversion-free, path-aware editing framework within rectified flow models for text-to-image editing. DRFS is a distillation-based method that explicitly models the discrepancy between the source and target velocity fields in order to mitigate over-smoothing artifacts rampant in prior distillation sampling approaches. We further introduce a time-dependent shift term to push noisy latents closer to the target trajectory, enhancing the alignment with the target distribution. We theoretically demonstrate that disabling this shift recovers Delta Denoising Score (DDS), bridging score-based diffusion optimization and velocity-based rectified-flow optimization. Moreover, under rectified-flow dynamics, a linear shift schedule recovers the inversion-free method FlowEdit as a strict special case, yielding a unifying view of optimization and ODE editing. We conduct an analysis to guide the design of our shift term, and experimental results on the widely used PIE Benchmark indicate that DRFS achieves superior editing quality, fidelity, and controllability while requiring no architectural modifications. Code is available at https://github.com/Harvard-AI-and-Robotics-Lab/DeltaRectifiedFlowSampling.
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spellingShingle Delta Rectified Flow Sampling for Text-to-Image Editing
Beaudouin, Gaspard
Li, Minghan
Kim, Jaeyeon
Yoon, Sung-Hoon
Wang, Mengyu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
We propose Delta Rectified Flow Sampling (DRFS), a novel inversion-free, path-aware editing framework within rectified flow models for text-to-image editing. DRFS is a distillation-based method that explicitly models the discrepancy between the source and target velocity fields in order to mitigate over-smoothing artifacts rampant in prior distillation sampling approaches. We further introduce a time-dependent shift term to push noisy latents closer to the target trajectory, enhancing the alignment with the target distribution. We theoretically demonstrate that disabling this shift recovers Delta Denoising Score (DDS), bridging score-based diffusion optimization and velocity-based rectified-flow optimization. Moreover, under rectified-flow dynamics, a linear shift schedule recovers the inversion-free method FlowEdit as a strict special case, yielding a unifying view of optimization and ODE editing. We conduct an analysis to guide the design of our shift term, and experimental results on the widely used PIE Benchmark indicate that DRFS achieves superior editing quality, fidelity, and controllability while requiring no architectural modifications. Code is available at https://github.com/Harvard-AI-and-Robotics-Lab/DeltaRectifiedFlowSampling.
title Delta Rectified Flow Sampling for Text-to-Image Editing
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05342