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In-situ Autoguidance: Eliciting Self-Correction in Diffusion Models

Machine Learning 2025-10-21 v1

Abstract

The generation of high-quality, diverse, and prompt-aligned images is a central goal in image-generating diffusion models. The popular classifier-free guidance (CFG) approach improves quality and alignment at the cost of reduced variation, creating an inherent entanglement of these effects. Recent work has successfully disentangled these properties by guiding a model with a separately trained, inferior counterpart; however, this solution introduces the considerable overhead of requiring an auxiliary model. We challenge this prerequisite by introducing In-situ Autoguidance, a method that elicits guidance from the model itself without any auxiliary components. Our approach dynamically generates an inferior prediction on the fly using a stochastic forward pass, reframing guidance as a form of inference-time self-correction. We demonstrate that this zero-cost approach is not only viable but also establishes a powerful new baseline for cost-efficient guidance, proving that the benefits of self-guidance can be achieved without external models.

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@article{arxiv.2510.17136,
  title  = {In-situ Autoguidance: Eliciting Self-Correction in Diffusion Models},
  author = {Enhao Gu and Haolin Hou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17136},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures. ICML 2025 Workshop submission

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