APEX: Self-Adversarial One Step Generation via Condition Shifting
arxiv.orgAI ResearchApr 14, 2026, 5:54 AM

APEX (Westlake/ZJU; Tao Lin): adversarial signals extracted endogenously via condition shifting, eliminating the external discriminator. 0.6B model surpasses FLUX-Schnell 12B at one step; GenEval 0.89 at NFE=1 (vs 0.87 at 50 steps), 15.33x speedup. Code released.
6Apr 15, 2026, 10:53 PM