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Paper suggestion: MEND: RL For Flow Models via Proximal Velocity Matching #12
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I am an author of MEND: RL For Flow Models via Proximal Velocity Matching (arXiv preprint, October 2026). Please consider it for the manually curated Applications section.
MEND studies reward post-training of flow-matching image generators using proximal velocity matching. It constructs reward-improving velocity targets and fits them by regression. It requires a differentiable reward, and the reported experiments are text-to-image generation.
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05954
- Official code: https://github.com/shreshthsaini/MEND-RL
- Project: https://shreshthsaini.github.io/MEND-RL/
Related PR: #11. This issue tracks the same paper suggestion; the PR already contains the proposed changes, and only one listing is intended.
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README.md:
**MEND: RL For Flow Models via Proximal Velocity Matching**\
*Shreshth Saini, Neil Birkbeck, Yilin Wang, Balu Adsumilli, Alan C. Bovik*\
Arxiv 2026/10. [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05954)] [[Code](https://github.com/shreshthsaini/MEND-RL)]
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