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I wrote an interactive article explaining the geometric intuition behind Rectified Flows. I visually explain why flow-models tend to learn curved trajectories, why this is bad for sampling latency, and a relatively simple technique for mitigating it. Check it out! Link 👇 https://t.co/X7nPye8fuJ
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