Machine Learning Algorithms & Natural Language Processing

Jul 8, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Why the One‑Step “Drift Model” by He Kaiming’s Team Was Rejected at ICML (Scores 5‑4‑4‑3)

The drift model moves the distribution evolution into training to achieve single‑step image synthesis with near‑SOTA FID scores, but ICML reviewers gave it 5/4/4/3 and rejected it, citing heavy reliance on a pretrained feature encoder, unclear contribution of the drift field versus classifier‑free guidance, and insufficient comparison to prior work.