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arxiv: 2509.05342 · v3 · submitted 2025-09-01 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.LG

Delta Rectified Flow Sampling for Text-to-Image Editing

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keywords text-to-image editingrectified flowimage editingsampling methodsdistillationvelocity fieldsdiffusion models
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Delta Rectified Flow Sampling improves text-to-image edits by modeling velocity discrepancies and adding a time-dependent shift to reduce over-smoothing.

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The paper proposes Delta Rectified Flow Sampling as a new framework for editing images in rectified flow models using text instructions. It works by calculating the difference between the velocity fields of the original and desired images, then applies a shifting adjustment that moves the noisy starting point closer to the target path. This targets the blurring and loss of detail that often occurs when distillation methods try to skip full inversion steps. If the approach holds, it would let users make precise changes to generated images while keeping the original structure intact, all without retraining the base model or adding inversion steps. The method also positions itself as a bridge that recovers earlier techniques like Delta Denoising Score and FlowEdit as special cases under certain choices of the shift.

Core claim

DRFS explicitly models the discrepancy between source and target velocity fields in rectified flow dynamics and introduces a time-dependent shift term to align noisy latents with the target trajectory, yielding higher editing quality, fidelity, and controllability on the PIE Benchmark with no architectural changes to the underlying model.

What carries the argument

Velocity discrepancy modeling paired with a time-dependent shift term that pushes latents toward the target distribution during sampling.

If this is right

  • Edits preserve source image details more accurately while following the target text prompt.
  • The same framework recovers DDS when the shift term is removed and recovers FlowEdit under a linear shift schedule.
  • No inversion step or model architecture changes are required for the editing process.
  • The shift schedule can be analyzed and tuned to balance edit strength against fidelity.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The velocity discrepancy approach could transfer to editing tasks in video or 3D generation models that rely on flow dynamics.
  • Further refinement of the shift term schedule might yield performance gains when applied to larger or differently trained rectified flow models.
  • Testing the method on out-of-distribution prompts or non-PIE datasets would help identify where the discrepancy modeling provides the largest benefit.

Load-bearing premise

That explicitly modeling the source-target velocity discrepancy together with a time-dependent shift will reliably reduce over-smoothing artifacts during practical editing.

What would settle it

Evaluating DRFS on the PIE Benchmark and observing that it produces equal or greater over-smoothing, lower fidelity scores, or reduced controllability compared with prior methods such as DDS or FlowEdit.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2509.05342 by Gaspard Beaudouin, Jaeyeon Kim, Mengyu Wang, Minghan Li, Sung-Hoon Yoon.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison between RFDS and DVRF (ours). Source prompt: Brown horse walking in a grassy meadow with an autumn forest backdrop and target prompt: Zebra walking in a grassy meadow with an autumn forest backdrop. As shown in (b) and (c), RFDS results in over-smoothing and detail loss. In contrast, DVRF (d) preserves textures. 3 Delta Velocity Rectified Flow (DVRF) We introduce Delta Velocity Rectified Flow (D… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Visual comparison of the sampling strategies for editing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Effect of the offset coefficient ct. Subfigure (a) shows that larger η yields straighter trajectories; (b) shows it also increases update magnitude via amplified ∥vθ(ˆx tgt t ) − vθ(x src t )∥ 2 . 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparisons on images from our additional dataset and PIE benchmark. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative edits produced by our DVRF. Each pair indicates the source image (left) and edited result (right). induce larger gradient updates and produce straighter latent trajectories. Geometrically, as illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative edits produced by our DVRF with different schedulers. For each triplet: left = source, center = random scheduler, right = descending scheduler. 6 Related Work Text-guided Inversion and Editing. Image editing methods can be broadly categorized into training-based and training-free approaches. Training-based methods fine-tune generative 10 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

We propose Delta Rectified Flow Sampling (DRFS), a novel inversion-free, path-aware editing framework within rectified flow models for text-to-image editing. DRFS is a distillation-based method that explicitly models the discrepancy between the source and target velocity fields in order to mitigate over-smoothing artifacts rampant in prior distillation sampling approaches. We further introduce a time-dependent shift term to push noisy latents closer to the target trajectory, enhancing the alignment with the target distribution. We theoretically demonstrate that disabling this shift recovers Delta Denoising Score (DDS), bridging score-based diffusion optimization and velocity-based rectified-flow optimization. Moreover, under rectified-flow dynamics, a linear shift schedule recovers the inversion-free method FlowEdit as a strict special case, yielding a unifying view of optimization and ODE editing. We conduct an analysis to guide the design of our shift term, and experimental results on the widely used PIE Benchmark indicate that DRFS achieves superior editing quality, fidelity, and controllability while requiring no architectural modifications. Code is available at https://github.com/Harvard-AI-and-Robotics-Lab/DeltaRectifiedFlowSampling.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes Delta Rectified Flow Sampling (DRFS), an inversion-free, path-aware framework for text-to-image editing in rectified flow models. DRFS explicitly models the discrepancy between source and target velocity fields to reduce over-smoothing and introduces a time-dependent shift term to align noisy latents with the target trajectory. It theoretically shows that setting the shift to zero recovers Delta Denoising Score (DDS) and that a linear shift schedule recovers FlowEdit as a special case, providing a unifying view of optimization and ODE-based editing. Experiments on the PIE Benchmark report superior editing quality, fidelity, and controllability without architectural modifications to the underlying model.

Significance. If the central claims hold, this work supplies a theoretically grounded bridge between score-based diffusion optimization and velocity-based rectified-flow methods while delivering practical gains in editing controllability. The explicit recovery of DDS and FlowEdit as special cases, combined with the public release of code at https://github.com/Harvard-AI-and-Robotics-Lab/DeltaRectifiedFlowSampling, strengthens reproducibility and situates the contribution within existing literature.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (Theoretical Analysis): the claim that DRFS recovers DDS by disabling the shift term and recovers FlowEdit under a linear shift schedule is load-bearing for the unifying-view contribution, yet the manuscript provides only high-level statements without the intermediate algebraic steps that connect the velocity-discrepancy term to the prior methods; explicit expansion of the ODE under each choice of shift would confirm the reductions.
  2. [§4.3] §4.3 (PIE Benchmark Experiments): the reported superiority in quality, fidelity, and controllability is asserted without error bars, statistical significance tests, or ablations isolating the contribution of the time-dependent shift term versus the velocity-discrepancy modeling alone; these controls are necessary to substantiate that the observed gains are not attributable to hyper-parameter tuning or benchmark-specific artifacts.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for the shift schedule β(t) is introduced in the abstract and §3 but never given an explicit functional form or range; adding a short paragraph or equation defining the schedule used in all experiments would improve clarity.
  2. [Figure 3] Figure 3 (qualitative results) would benefit from side-by-side comparison with the exact DDS and FlowEdit baselines under identical random seeds to make the visual improvement attributable to DRFS immediately verifiable.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments and the recommendation for minor revision. We are pleased that the significance of the work is recognized. Below we provide point-by-point responses to the major comments.

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  1. Referee: §3 (Theoretical Analysis): the claim that DRFS recovers DDS by disabling the shift term and recovers FlowEdit under a linear shift schedule is load-bearing for the unifying-view contribution, yet the manuscript provides only high-level statements without the intermediate algebraic steps that connect the velocity-discrepancy term to the prior methods; explicit expansion of the ODE under each choice of shift would confirm the reductions.

    Authors: We agree that including the explicit algebraic steps would enhance the clarity of the theoretical analysis. In the revised manuscript, we will expand §3 to provide the intermediate derivations. Specifically, we will show the ODE expansion when the shift term is set to zero, demonstrating recovery of the DDS formulation, and detail the linear shift schedule that reduces to FlowEdit. This will include all connecting steps from the velocity-discrepancy term. revision: yes

  2. Referee: §4.3 (PIE Benchmark Experiments): the reported superiority in quality, fidelity, and controllability is asserted without error bars, statistical significance tests, or ablations isolating the contribution of the time-dependent shift term versus the velocity-discrepancy modeling alone; these controls are necessary to substantiate that the observed gains are not attributable to hyper-parameter tuning or benchmark-specific artifacts.

    Authors: We recognize the importance of these additional controls for robustness. We will revise §4.3 to include error bars from multiple independent runs, perform statistical significance tests on the key metrics, and add ablations that separately evaluate the velocity-discrepancy modeling and the time-dependent shift term. These additions will help confirm that the improvements are attributable to the proposed components rather than other factors. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces DRFS by explicitly modeling source-target velocity discrepancy plus a time-dependent shift term within rectified-flow dynamics. It derives special-case recoveries (shift=0 yields DDS; linear shift yields FlowEdit) as theoretical connections rather than tautological reductions. The PIE Benchmark results are presented as independent empirical validation of quality/fidelity gains without architectural changes. No self-definitional loops, fitted inputs relabeled as predictions, load-bearing self-citations, or ansatz smuggling appear in the derivation chain; the construction remains externally grounded and non-circular.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the shift term is introduced conceptually but its functional form and any associated constants are not specified.

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