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Gumbel Straight Flow: Distilling Autoregressive Models into One-step Flow Maps

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arXiv:2610.00497 (cs)
[Submitted on 30 Sep 2026]

Title:Gumbel Straight Flow: Distilling Autoregressive Models into One-step Flow Maps

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Abstract:We present Gumbel Straight Flow (GSF), a continuous flow map language model that leverages the noise-data coupling of a pretrained autoregressive language (AR) model. We theoretically demonstrate that the coupling between Gumbel noise and one-hot token sequences induced by an autoregressive model yields non-intersecting linear paths connecting the noise to the sequence representations. To further enhance high-quality few-step path sampling, we use a flow map semigroup objective where the tangent (velocity) condition is guided directly by the AR teacher. Across various benchmarks, including pretraining and downstream tasks, GSF can outperform current few-step language generation baselines.
Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
Cite as: arXiv:2610.00497 [cs.LG]
  (or arXiv:2610.00497v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.00497
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From: David Ruhe [view email]
[v1] Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:01:06 UTC (736 KB)
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