Neon: Negative Extrapolation From Self-Training Improves Image Generation

ICLROral2026

Authors
Sina Alemohammad, Zhangyang Wang, Richard Baraniuk
Affiliation
University of Texas at Austin
Venue
ICLR 2026
Track
Oral

TL;DR

Instead of simply fine-tuning a generative model on its own synthetic outputs, briefly fine-tune it to find the direction of model collapse, then apply the reverse of that update to the original model for a major performance boost.

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Topics

generative model image generation fine-tuning

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