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arXiv: cs.AI preprintsInternational6 November 2026

Best-of-$N$ Guidance for Test-time Diffusion Alignment

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arXiv:2610.05108v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models achieve strong generative performance but often struggle to align generated samples with human preferences measured by a reward model. A simple yet effective algorithm for test-time alignment is Best-of-$N$ (BoN) sampling, which draws $N$ i.i.d. samples from a pre-trained diffusion model and outputs the single highest-reward sample. Despite its empirical success, BoN makes limited use of reward information, as it is incorporated only at the final selection stage without influencing the reverse diffusion trajectory durin
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