Rectified Flow
An advanced generative modeling technique that connects data and noise distributions using completely straight, linear paths rather than curved trajectories.
Think of It Like This
Like building a perfectly straight superhighway between two cities instead of relying on the winding, complex dirt roads that naturally formed there.
Standard diffusion models follow complex, stochastic curves during the denoising process, requiring dozens of computational steps to generate an image. Rectified Flow forces these paths to be straight lines. This mathematical simplification allows models to generate ultra-high-quality images in just one or two inference steps, revolutionizing real-time generation.