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Lookahead Drifting Model

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A new lookahead drifting model improves distribution mapping by computing sequential drifting terms that capture higher-order gradient information, outperforming the baseline on toy examples and CIFAR10.

SourcearXiv Machine LearningAuthor: Guoqiang Zhang, Kenta Niwa, W. Bastiaan Kleijn
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arXiv:2605.04060 (cs)

[Submitted on 10 Apr 2026]

Title:Lookahead Drifting Model

Authors:Guoqiang Zhang, Kenta Niwa, W. Bastiaan Kleijn

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Abstract:Recently, a new paradigm named \emph{drifting model} has been proposed for mapping distributions, which achieves the SOTA image generation performance over ImageNet via one-step neural functional evaluation (NFE). The basic idea is to compute a drifting term at each training iteration and then push the output of the model towards the direction of the drifting term. In this paper, we propose a \emph{lookahead drifting model}. At each training iteration, we compute a set of drifting terms sequentially. Each drifting term is calculated by making use of previously computed ones as well as the positive samples and the output of the model. %One key step is to properly scale the drifting terms so that their magnitudes are in a comparable range. In principle, the drifting terms obtained at a later stage capture higher order gradient information towards the positive samples. At each training iteration, the model is optimized by pushing its output towards the direction of the (weighted) summation of the drifting terms. Experimental results on toy examples and CIFAR10 demonstrate the better performance of the new method than the baseline.

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Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

Cite as: arXiv:2605.04060 [cs.LG]

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.04060

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From: Guoqiang Zhang [view email] [v1] Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:12:21 UTC (4,147 KB)

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  • The drifting model paradigm achieves state-of-the-art image generation with one-step NFE.
  • Lookahead drifting model computes sequential drifting terms using previous terms and model output.
  • Later-stage drifting terms capture higher-order gradient information.
  • Experiments on CIFAR10 demonstrate improved performance over the baseline.

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