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Point Straight Flow

Point Straight Flow is a generative machine learning model designed for rapid three-dimensional point cloud synthesis by straightening the transport trajectory between random noise and structured 3D shapes. In contrast to standard diffusion models that require hundreds or thousands of iterative denoising steps along curved probabilistic paths, this framework straightens the generative flow to enable direct, efficient simulation. Through model distillation, the linearized flow can be collapsed into as few as a single generation step without substantial loss of geometric detail or quality. This substantial reduction in sampling latency makes the model particularly suited for real-time and compute-constrained 3D applications, including point cloud completion and interactive shape synthesis.

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Fast Point Cloud Generation with Straight Flows

Fast Point Cloud Generation with Straight Flows

Lemeng Wu, Dilin Wang, Chengyue Gong, Xingchao Liu, Yunyang Xiong, Rakesh Ranjan, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Vikas Chandra, Qiang Liu

OrganizationsMetaUniversity of Texas at Austin

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Proposes Point Straight Flow, a novel framework that straightens generative transport trajectories and distills them into a single step, enabling high-quality 3D point cloud generation over 700 times faster than standard diffusion models.

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for point cloud generation. A key component that drives the impressive performance for generating high-quality samples from noise is iteratively denoise for thousands of steps. While beneficial, the complexity of learning steps has limited its applications to many 3D real-world. To address this limitation, we propose Point Straight Flow (PSF), a model that exhibits impressive performance using one step. Our idea is based on the reformulation of the standard diffusion model, which optimizes the curvy learning trajectory into a straight path. Further, we develop a distillation strategy to shorten the straight path into one step without a performance loss, enabling applications to 3D real-world with latency constraints. We perform evaluations on multiple 3D tasks and find that our PSF performs comparably to the standard diffusion model, outperforming other efficient 3D point cloud generation methods. On real-world applications such as point cloud completion and training-free text-guided generation in a low-latency setup, PSF performs favorably.

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2026-09-26