Manifold-Constrained Initial Noise Optimization for Efficient Generative Model Alignment

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2610.00365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in distillation and flow-map models have enabled deterministic one- or few-step generation for high-quality data, facilitating a new branch of reward alignment approaches that directly optimize the initial noise from a Gaussian distribution. However, most existing initial-noise optimization methods rely on first-order gradient information, which is either inapplicable or suffers from instability and inefficiency in black-box reward scenarios. Here, we introduce ZeNOVA, a stable and efficient initial noise alignment method in a gradient-free manner. Specifically, we address existing algorithms' major challenge in black-box scenarios through annealed soft-value guidance, manifold-constrained hyperspherical Langevin dynamics, and