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Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) significantly enhances controllability in generative models by interpolating conditional and unconditional predictions. However, standard CFG often employs a static unconditional input, which can be suboptimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Pengxiang Li , Shilin Yan , Joey Tsai , Renrui Zhang , Ruichuan An , Ziyu Guo , Xiaowei Gao

Current sampling mechanisms for conditional diffusion models rely mainly on Classifier Free Guidance (CFG) to generate high-quality images. However, CFG requires several denoising passes in each time step, e.g., up to three passes in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mehdi Noroozi , Alberto Gil Ramos , Luca Morreale , Ruchika Chavhan , Malcolm Chadwick , Abhinav Mehrotra , Sourav Bhattacharya

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has helped diffusion models achieve great conditional generation in various fields. Recently, more diffusion guidance methods have emerged with improved generation quality and human preference. However, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dian Xie , Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Zikai Zhou , Bojun Cheng , Shuo Yang , Jun Wu , Zeke Xie

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a cornerstone of text-to-image diffusion models, yet its effectiveness is limited by the use of static guidance scales. This "one-size-fits-all" approach fails to adapt to the diverse requirements of…

Classifier-free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique in modern diffusion models for enhancing sample quality and prompt adherence. However, through an empirical analysis on Gaussian mixture modeling with a closed-form solution, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chubin Chen , Jiashu Zhu , Xiaokun Feng , Nisha Huang , Chen Zhu , Meiqi Wu , Fangyuan Mao , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Xiu Li

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a key technique for improving conditional generation in diffusion models, enabling more accurate control while enhancing sample quality. It is natural to extend this technique to video diffusion, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kiwhan Song , Boyuan Chen , Max Simchowitz , Yilun Du , Russ Tedrake , Vincent Sitzmann

Image generation using diffusion models have demonstrated outstanding learning capabilities, effectively capturing the full distribution of the training dataset. They are known to generate wide variations in sampled images, albeit with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rahul Shenoy , Zhihong Pan , Kaushik Balakrishnan , Qisen Cheng , Yongmoon Jeon , Heejune Yang , Jaewon Kim

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely adopted technique in diffusion/flow models to improve image fidelity and controllability. In this work, we first analytically study the effect of CFG on flow matching models trained on Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Weichen Fan , Amber Yijia Zheng , Raymond A. Yeh , Ziwei Liu

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a fundamental tool in modern diffusion models for text-guided generation. Although effective, CFG has notable drawbacks. For instance, DDIM with CFG lacks invertibility, complicating image editing;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Hyungjin Chung , Jeongsol Kim , Geon Yeong Park , Hyelin Nam , Jong Chul Ye

Classifier free guidance is a standard method for conditional sampling in diffusion models, but its sampling rule is not aligned with the objective used in training. This mismatch induces a structural sampling error through the interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nakgyu Yang , Yechan Lee , SooJean Han

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

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Haowei Lin , Shanda Li , Haotian Ye , Yiming Yang , Stefano Ermon , Yitao Liang , Jianzhu Ma

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), which combines the conditional and unconditional score functions with two coefficients summing to one, serves as a practical technique for diffusion model sampling. Theoretically, however, denoising with CFG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mengfei Xia , Nan Xue , Yujun Shen , Ran Yi , Tieliang Gong , Yong-Jin Liu

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,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Enhao Gu , Haolin Hou

We introduce Policy Gradient Guidance (PGG), a simple extension of classifier-free guidance from diffusion models to classical policy gradient methods. PGG augments the policy gradient with an unconditional branch and interpolates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jianing Qi , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

Temporal sequential tasks challenge humanoid robots, as existing Diffusion Policy (DP) and Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT) methods often lack temporal context, resulting in local optima traps and excessive repetitive actions. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuang Lu , Song Wang , Xiao Han , Xuri Zhang , Yucong Wu , Zhicheng He

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a cornerstone of modern text-to-image models, yet its reliance on a semantically vacuous null prompt ($\varnothing$) generates a guidance signal prone to geometric entanglement. This is a key factor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Shilong Han , Yuming Zhang , Hongxia Wang

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) has become an essential component of modern conditional diffusion models. Although highly effective in practice, the underlying mechanisms by which CFG enhances quality, detail, and prompt alignment are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Tobias Vontobel , Farnood Salehi , Romann M. Weber

Adding additional control to pretrained diffusion models has become an increasingly popular research area, with extensive applications in computer vision, reinforcement learning, and AI for science. Recently, several studies have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yifei Shen , Xinyang Jiang , Yezhen Wang , Yifan Yang , Dongqi Han , Dongsheng Li

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used mechanism for controlling diffusion-based generative models, yet its guidance scale is typically treated as a fixed hyperparameter throughout generation. This static design yields a suboptimal…

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