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Conflict-Aware Additive Guidance for Flow Models under Compositional Rewards

ai-technology · 2026-05-22

A new method called Conflict-Aware Additive Guidance (g^car) addresses off-manifold drift in diffusion and flow models during inference-time guided sampling with multiple constraints. The approach dynamically detects and resolves gradient conflicts to maintain generation quality. Validated on synthetic datasets and image editing tasks, g^car offers a lightweight, learnable solution for controlled generation without fine-tuning.

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  • arXiv:2605.20758v1 announces Conflict-Aware Additive Guidance (g^car)
  • g^car rectifies off-manifold drift caused by gradient misalignment
  • Method is lightweight and learnable
  • Validated on synthetic datasets and image editing
  • Does not require fine-tuning of base models

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