low-budget

A low-budget Chinese animation 'Niulai', mocked by netizens, unexpectedly becomes a box office dark horse due to meme creations, surpassing 10 million in box office and contrasting with AI-generated content.

Introduces SPARROW, a black-box optimization algorithm that decouples the generative prior from the reward signal, enabling effective optimization under low budgets with noisy or unreliable feedback.