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Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have shown incredible promise for zero shot image-to-image translation and editing. Most of these approaches work by combining or replacing network-specific features used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zeqi Gu , Ethan Yang , Abe Davis

Recent image denoising methods have leveraged generative modeling for real noise synthesis to address the costly acquisition of real-world noisy data. However, these generative models typically require camera metadata and extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Changjin Kim , HyeokJun Lee , YoungJoon Yoo

Proper guidance strategies are essential to achieve high-quality generation results without retraining diffusion and flow-based text-to-image models. Existing guidance either requires specific training or strong inductive biases of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tiancheng Li , Weijian Luo , Zhiyang Chen , Liyuan Ma , Guo-Jun Qi

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have recently achieved remarkable results in conditional and unconditional image generation. The pre-trained models can be adapted without further training to different downstream tasks, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Asya Grechka , Guillaume Couairon , Matthieu Cord

Diffusion guidance is a powerful technique that enables controllable and high-fidelity sample generation with diffusion models. At a high level, it modifies the score function by incorporating a guidance term that steers the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ruijia Cao , Yuchen Wu , Nisha Chandramoorthy

Classifier-guided diffusion models have emerged as a powerful approach for conditional image generation, but they suffer from overconfident predictions during early denoising steps, causing the guidance gradient to vanish. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Seyed Alireza Javid , Amirhossein Bagheri , Nuria González-Prelcic

Diffusion models are capable of generating impressive images conditioned on text descriptions, and extensions of these models allow users to edit images at a relatively coarse scale. However, the ability to precisely edit the layout,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Daniel Geng , Andrew Owens

Diffusion models have recently been shown to generate high-quality synthetic images, especially when paired with a guidance technique to trade off diversity for fidelity. We explore diffusion models for the problem of text-conditional image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Alex Nichol , Prafulla Dhariwal , Aditya Ramesh , Pranav Shyam , Pamela Mishkin , Bob McGrew , Ilya Sutskever , Mark Chen

Recent advancements in diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling. However, the impressive and vivid outputs they produce often come at the cost of significant model scaling and increased computational demands. Consequently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jincheng Zhong , Xiangcheng Zhang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

We study image inpainting with generative diffusion models. Existing methods typically either train dedicated task-specific models, or adapt a pretrained diffusion model separately for each masked image at deployment. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yilie Huang , Xun Yu Zhou

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are a recent family of generative models that achieve state-of-the-art results. In order to obtain class-conditional generation, it was suggested to guide the diffusion process by gradients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Bahjat Kawar , Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Denoising diffusion models have shown great promise in human motion synthesis conditioned on natural language descriptions. However, integrating spatial constraints, such as pre-defined motion trajectories and obstacles, remains a challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Korrawe Karunratanakul , Konpat Preechakul , Supasorn Suwajanakorn , Siyu Tang

Classifier-free guided diffusion models have recently been shown to be highly effective at high-resolution image generation, and they have been widely used in large-scale diffusion frameworks including DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion and Imagen.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Chenlin Meng , Robin Rombach , Ruiqi Gao , Diederik P. Kingma , Stefano Ermon , Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans

Diffusion Models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with unprecedented image generation capability. These models are widely used for data augmentation and creative applications. However, DMs reflect the biases present in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rishubh Parihar , Abhijnya Bhat , Abhipsa Basu , Saswat Mallick , Jogendra Nath Kundu , R. Venkatesh Babu

In recent years, diffusion models have been widely adopted for image inpainting tasks due to their powerful generative capabilities, achieving impressive results. Existing multimodal inpainting methods based on diffusion models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Qimin Wang , Xinda Liu , Guohua Geng

Guidance in conditional diffusion generation is of great importance for sample quality and controllability. However, existing guidance schemes are to be desired. On one hand, mainstream methods such as classifier guidance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jiajun Ma , Tianyang Hu , Wenjia Wang , Jiacheng Sun

Diffusion models have shown significant progress in image translation tasks recently. However, due to their stochastic nature, there's often a trade-off between style transformation and content preservation. Current strategies aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Gihyun Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

This paper presents Model-guidance (MG), a novel objective for training diffusion model that addresses and removes of the commonly used Classifier-free guidance (CFG). Our innovative approach transcends the standard modeling of solely data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhicong Tang , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in video generation; however, the high computational cost of the denoising process remains a major bottleneck. Existing approaches have shown promise in reducing the number of diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiao Liang , Yunzhu Zhang , Linchao Zhu