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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) 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

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

Guided or controlled data generation with diffusion models\blfootnote{Partial preliminary results of this work appeared in International Conference on Machine Learning 2025 \citep{li2025provable}.} has become a cornerstone of modern…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-05 Yuchen Jiao , Yuxin Chen , Gen Li

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for improving the perceptual quality of samples from conditional diffusion models. It operates by linearly combining conditional and unconditional score estimates using a guidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Alexandre Galashov , Ashwini Pokle , Arnaud Doucet , Arthur Gretton , Mauricio Delbracio , Valentin De Bortoli

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) has become an essential component of modern diffusion models to enhance both generation quality and alignment with input conditions. However, CFG requires specific training procedures and is limited to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Javad Rajabi , Soroush Mehraban , Seyedmorteza Sadat , Babak Taati

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

Training-free guidance enables controlled generation in diffusion and flow models, but most methods rely on gradients and assume differentiable objectives. This work focuses on training-free guidance addressing challenges from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yingqing Guo , Yukang Yang , Hui Yuan , Mengdi Wang

Classifier guidance is a recently introduced method to trade off mode coverage and sample fidelity in conditional diffusion models post training, in the same spirit as low temperature sampling or truncation in other types of generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has been a default technique in various visual generative models, yet it requires inference from both conditional and unconditional models during sampling. We propose to build visual models that are free from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Huayu Chen , Kai Jiang , Kaiwen Zheng , Jianfei Chen , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image synthesis, largely attributed to the use of classifier-free guidance (CFG), which enables high-quality, condition-aligned image generation. CFG combines the conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mingi Kwon , Shin seong Kim , Jaeseok Jeong. Yi Ting Hsiao , Youngjung Uh

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a fundamental technique in training conditional diffusion models. The common practice for CFG-based training is to use a single network to learn both conditional and unconditional noise prediction, with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Prin Phunyaphibarn , Phillip Y. Lee , Jaihoon Kim , Minhyuk Sung

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used inference-time technique to boost the image quality of diffusion models. Yet, its reliance on text conditions prevents its use in unconditional generation. We propose a simple method to enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Weijia Zhang , Yuehao Liu , Shanyan Guan , Wu Ran , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Chao Ma

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

Typical diffusion models are trained to accept a particular form of conditioning, most commonly text, and cannot be conditioned on other modalities without retraining. In this work, we propose a universal guidance algorithm that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Arpit Bansal , Hong-Min Chu , Avi Schwarzschild , Soumyadip Sengupta , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a cornerstone of modern conditional diffusion models, yet its reliance on the fixed or heuristic dynamic guidance weight is predominantly empirical and overlooks the inherent dynamics of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jiayang Gao , Tianyi Zheng , Jiayang Zou , Fengxiang Yang , Shice Liu , Luyao Fan , Zheyu Zhang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Peng-Tao Jiang , Bo Li , Jia Wang

Advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved video quality, directing attention to fine-grained controllability. However, many existing methods depend on fine-tuning large-scale video models for specific tasks, which becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sangwon Jang , Taekyung Ki , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Soo Ye Kim , Zhe Lin , Sung Ju Hwang

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Fan Zhou , Tim Van de Cruys

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng
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