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Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is an essential mechanism in contemporary text-driven diffusion models. In practice, in controlling the impact of guidance we can see the trade-off between the quality of the generated images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Dawid Malarz , Artur Kasymov , Maciej Zięba , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely adopted technique in diffusion and flow-based generative models, enabling high-quality conditional generation. A key theoretical challenge is characterizing the distribution induced by CFG,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Krunoslav Lehman Pavasovic , Jakob Verbeek , Giulio Biroli , Marc Mezard

Denoising diffusion models have gained popularity as a generative modeling technique for producing high-quality and diverse images. Applying these models to downstream tasks requires conditioning, which can take the form of text, class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Dimitris Samaras

Diffusion-based editing models have emerged as a powerful tool for semantic image and video manipulation. However, existing models lack a mechanism for smoothly controlling the intensity of text-guided edits. In standard text-conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alon Wolf , Chen Katzir , Kfir Aberman , Or Patashnik

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for various image generation and editing tasks, facilitating the synthesis of visual content in an unconditional or input-conditional manner. The core idea behind them is learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yi Huang , Jiancheng Huang , Yifan Liu , Mingfu Yan , Jiaxi Lv , Jianzhuang Liu , Wei Xiong , He Zhang , Liangliang Cao , Shifeng Chen

The recent wave of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has dramatically increased our text-based image generation abilities. These models can generate realistic images for a staggering variety of prompts and exhibit impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alexander C. Li , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shivam Duggal , Ellis Brown , Deepak Pathak

Personalizing text-to-image diffusion models is crucial for adapting the pre-trained models to specific target concepts, enabling diverse image generation. However, fine-tuning with few images introduces an inherent trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Sunghyun Park , Seokeon Choi , Hyoungwoo Park , Sungrack Yun

Diffusion models have become the go-to method for many generative tasks, particularly for image-to-image generation tasks such as super-resolution and inpainting. Current diffusion-based methods do not provide statistical guarantees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Eliahu Horwitz , Yedid Hoshen

Vector quantized diffusion (VQ-Diffusion) is a powerful generative model for text-to-image synthesis, but sometimes can still generate low-quality samples or weakly correlated images with text input. We find these issues are mainly due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Zhicong Tang , Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

We propose Context Diffusion, a diffusion-based framework that enables image generation models to learn from visual examples presented in context. Recent work tackles such in-context learning for image generation, where a query image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ivona Najdenkoska , Animesh Sinha , Abhimanyu Dubey , Dhruv Mahajan , Vignesh Ramanathan , Filip Radenovic

Extensive empirical evidence demonstrates that conditional generative models are easier to train and perform better than unconditional ones by exploiting the labels of data. So do score-based diffusion models. In this paper, we analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Fan Bao , Chongxuan Li , Jiacheng Sun , Jun Zhu

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has become the standard method for enhancing the quality of conditional diffusion models. However, employing CFG requires either training an unconditional model alongside the main diffusion model or modifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Manuel Kansy , Otmar Hilliges , Romann M. Weber

It is widely believed that noise conditioning is indispensable for denoising diffusion models to work successfully. This work challenges this belief. Motivated by research on blind image denoising, we investigate a variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiao Sun , Zhicheng Jiang , Hanhong Zhao , Kaiming He

Conventional class-guided diffusion models generally succeed in generating images with correct semantic content, but often struggle with texture details. This limitation stems from the usage of class priors, which only provide coarse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Zeyu Lu , Shuyang Sun , Meng Wei , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Luping Zhou

Recent advances in diffusion models enable many powerful instruments for image editing. One of these instruments is text-driven image manipulations: editing semantic attributes of an image according to the provided text description. %…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Nikita Starodubcev , Dmitry Baranchuk , Valentin Khrulkov , Artem Babenko

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models for graph generation, yet their use for conditional graph generation remains a fundamental challenge. In particular, guiding diffusion models on graphs under arbitrary reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Victor M. Tenorio , Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has emerged as a pivotal advancement in text-to-image latent diffusion models, establishing itself as a cornerstone technique for achieving high-quality image synthesis. However, under high guidance weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Cheng Jin , Zhenyu Xiao , Chutao Liu , Yuantao Gu

While conditional diffusion models are known to have good coverage of the data distribution, they still face limitations in output diversity, particularly when sampled with a high classifier-free guidance scale for optimal image quality or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Jakob Buhmann , Derek Bradley , Otmar Hilliges , Romann M. Weber

Despite recent advances in large-scale text-to-image generative models, manipulating real images with these models remains a challenging problem. The main limitations of existing editing methods are that they either fail to perform with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Vadim Titov , Madina Khalmatova , Alexandra Ivanova , Dmitry Vetrov , Aibek Alanov

Given an unconditional diffusion model and a predictor for a target property of interest (e.g., a classifier), the goal of training-free guidance is to generate samples with desirable target properties without additional training. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haotian Ye , Haowei Lin , Jiaqi Han , Minkai Xu , Sheng Liu , Yitao Liang , Jianzhu Ma , James Zou , Stefano Ermon
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