LookFlow: Training-Free and Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesis via Dynamic Lookahead Guidance Flow

Rectification flow Transformers (RFTs) have shown promising performance in diffusion-based image synthesis, but are typically confined to lower-resolution scenarios, limiting their ability to generate high-resolution images. Existing resolution extrapolation approaches often suffer from excessive computational overhead, resulting in prolonged inference times. We propose LookFlow, a training-free high-resolution synthesis framework that accelerates inference while preserving visual quality. Building on pretrained text-to-image RFTs, LookFlow employs a dynamic lookahead guidance flow mechanism to refine high-resolution velocity predictions by leveraging multi-timestep lookahead information extracted from a low-resolution flow. Additionally, reusing temporally similar features across consecutive timesteps drastically reduces computation and significantly decreases inference time overhead. Extensive experiments on COCO demonstrate that LookFlow robustly scales resolutions from $4\times$ to $25 \times$, achieving up to a maximum speedup of $2.01 \times$ while maintaining competitive visual fidelity.