arxivcs.CV2026-07-05
Flash-BoN: Instant Drafts for Inference-Time Scaling in Diffusion Models
Ruchit Rawal, Reza Shirkavand, Sayak Paul, Yuxin Wen, Heng Huang, Yizheng Chen, et al.
Inference-time scaling for text-to-image generation has progressed from simple Best-of-$N$ (BoN) sampling to guided search methods that verify and steer candidate trajectories at intermediate denoising steps. These approaches focus on when and how often to verify during denoising…