用统一速度场实现双向无配对图像转换,提升生成质量与一致性。
UniCycleFlow: Bidirectional Unpaired Image Translation with a Shared Rectified Flow

- 基于单一时序速度场构建双向转换路径,统一连续动态机制。
- 在10个任务中7个达最低FID,平均FID为55.1,仅需一次Euler评估。
- 适合追求高保真、跨域一致图像生成的研究者或应用开发者。
双向无配对图像转换需在无配对监督下保持源域结构,并在两个方向学习连贯变换。现有方法通常采用方向特异的生成器或训练独立单向模型,即使通过循环一致性连接,也仅约束往返终点重建,未要求两方向遵循共同的局部变换规则。本文提出UniCycleFlow,一种基于修正流(rectified flow)的框架,将双向转换表示为单一时序速度场的正向与逆向积分。该形式将两个方向纳入同一连续动力学体系,而非耦合独立端点映射。核心挑战在于无配对数据无法提供有意义的源-目标关联以构建修正流轨迹。UniCycleFlow通过学习确定性源条件终点,使其边缘分布经对抗匹配至目标域;同时利用停止梯度自流匹配进行中间速度监督,离散循环闭合保证正反向一致性,以及表示路径-速度正则化控制轨迹上的局部特征变化。在十个转换方向上,UniCycleFlow在7项任务中取得最低FID,使用单次Euler评估,平均FID为55.1。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Bidirectional unpaired image translation must preserve source-specific structure while learning coherent transformations in both directions without paired supervision. Existing methods typically employ two direction-specific generators or train separate one-way models. Even when linked by cycle consistency, such models constrain only the round-trip endpoint reconstruction, without requiring the two directions to obey a common local transformation rule. We propose UniCycleFlow, a rectified-flow framework that represents bidirectional translation as forward and reverse integration of a single time-conditioned velocity field. This formulation organizes both directions within the same continuous dynamics, rather than coupling otherwise separate endpoint mappings. A key challenge is that unpaired data provide no meaningful source--target coupling from which rectified-flow trajectories can be constructed. UniCycleFlow addresses this challenge by learning deterministic source-conditioned endpoints whose marginal distributions are adversarially matched to the opposite domains. The resulting paths are regularized by stop-gradient self-flow matching for intermediate velocity supervision, discrete cycle closure for forward--reverse consistency, and representation path-velocity regularization for controlling localized feature changes along the trajectory. Across ten translation directions, UniCycleFlow achieves the lowest FID on 7 of 10 tasks using a single Euler evaluation and obtains the best average FID of 55.1.
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