--- title: The Rise of Single-Step Generative Models [MeanFlow] description: MeanFlow is a new formulation for generative models that enables single-step sample generation without iterative ODE solving. Unlike standard flow matching... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-single-step-generative-models-meanflow--y2tx6ked8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Rise of Single-Step Generative Models [MeanFlow] | daily.dev og:description: MeanFlow is a new formulation for generative models that enables single-step sample generation without iterative ODE solving. Unlike standard flow matching... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-single-step-generative-models-meanflow--y2tx6ked8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/y2tX6KEd8.png og:image:alt: The Rise of Single-Step Generative Models [MeanFlow] og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Rise of Single-Step Generative Models [MeanFlow] **[Jia-Bin Huang](https://daily.dev/sources/jbhuang0604)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MeanFlow is a new formulation for generative models that enables single-step sample generation without iterative ODE solving. Unlike standard flow matching which predicts instantaneous velocity and requires multiple integration steps, MeanFlow trains a neural network to predict the average velocity over a time interval. The key insight is the MeanFlow identity, derived using the fundamental theorem of calculus and product rule, which relates average velocity, instantaneous velocity, and a time derivative computed via Jacobian-vector products. This allows generating samples in one forward pass with competitive FID scores, and requires no pre-training, distillation, or curriculum training tricks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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