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Jikang Cheng

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Preprint Aug 2026

Can We Perform Online RL for Image Editing without Editing Rewards?

Reinforcement learning (RL) enables direct preference optimization for image editing through editing-specific rewards, which remain less developed due to costly triplet supervision and complex task-dependent calibration. In contrast, text-to-image (T2I) generation benefits from a mature and diverse reward ecosystem spa...

Qi-Chao Ma, Ji-Kang Cheng, Ling Liang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SwiftExplorer: Training-free Diffusion Model Alignment with Swift Diversity Exploration

SwiftExplorer is proposed, a plugin that mitigates distribution collapse caused by excessive diversity loss and reduces compute costs, and adopts an Inheritance-Restart exploration mechanism to avoid early convergence, while exploration also increases the likelihood of high-reward trajectories.

Ren-Ye Yan, Ji-Kang Cheng, You Wu et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Explore or Converge? Stage-Guided Per-Step Optimization for Diffusion Models

Stage-Guided Per-Step Optimization (SGPO) is proposed for diffusion models, which jointly leverages signal-to-noise ratio and semantic changes to identify generation stages and adaptively assign stage-specific objectives.

Ren-Ye Yan, Ji-Kang Cheng, You Wu et al. · 1 citation
Preprint Aug 2026

GenTrack: Physical Alignment for Robot-Native Motion Generation and Zero-Shot Humanoid Tracking

GenTrack is introduced, an online generator--tracker framework that alternates execution-grounded, group-relative generator alignment with tracker training on newly generated references; anchoring and rehearsal constrain drift and demonstrates that joint online post-training effectively narrows the executability gap be...

Zeyu Ling, Xinyao Yu, Renye Yan et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

PAST: Prompt-Adaptive Sampling Termination for Efficient Diffusion Model

PAST is proposed, which provides differentiated rewards while adaptively regulating training episode length by jointly perceiving denoising progress and prompt difficulty and establishes a dual adaptive coordination mechanism that balances the extrinsic and intrinsic rewards.

Ren-Ye Yan, Ji-Kang Cheng, You Wu et al. · 0 citations
Review Jul 2026

Pixel-Space Diffusion Transformers

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) enable efficient high-resolution image synthesis by denoising in a VAE-compressed latent space. However, fixed visual tokenizers can discard fine textures and structural details, while separate representation and diffusion training creates a mismatch between reconstruction and generation...

Ren-Ye Yan, Ji-Kang Cheng, You Wu et al. · 3 citations

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