@article{directdiscriminativeoptimizationyour1, title = {Direct Discriminative Optimization: Your Likelihood-Based Visual Generative Model is Secretly a GAN Discriminator}, author = {Kaiwen Zheng and Yongxin Chen and Huayu Chen and Guande He and Ming-Yu Liu and Jun Zhu and Qinsheng Zhang}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2503.01103}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01103v2}, }