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Diffusion distillation is a widely used technique to reduce the sampling cost of diffusion models, yet it often requires extensive training, and the student performance tends to be degraded. Recent studies show that incorporating a GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Bowen Zheng , Tianming Yang

Dataset distillation is an effective technique for reducing the cost and complexity of model training while maintaining performance by compressing large datasets into smaller, more efficient versions. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Longzhen Li , Guang Li , Ren Togo , Keisuke Maeda , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Dataset distillation aims to synthesize a small dataset from a large dataset, enabling the model trained on it to perform well on the original dataset. With the blooming of large language models and multimodal large language models, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhenghao Zhao , Haoxuan Wang , Junyi Wu , Yuzhang Shang , Gaowen Liu , Yan Yan

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

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

Deep-learning models for language generation tasks tend to produce repetitive output. Various methods have been proposed to encourage lexical diversity during decoding, but this often comes at a cost to the perceived fluency and adequacy of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Giulio Zhou , Gerasimos Lampouras

Large data-driven image models are extensively used to support creative and artistic work. Under the currently predominant distribution-fitting paradigm, a dataset is treated as ground truth to be approximated as closely as possible. Yet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Sebastian Berns , Simon Colton , Christian Guckelsberger

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a core technique powering state-of-the-art image generation systems, yet its underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, we begin by analyzing CFG in a simplified linear diffusion model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiang Li , Rongrong Wang , Qing Qu

In many practical applications, large language models (LLMs) need to acquire new knowledge not present in their pre-training data. Efficiently leveraging this knowledge usually relies on supervised fine-tuning or retrieval-augmented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Kalle Kujanpää , Pekka Marttinen , Harri Valpola , Alexander Ilin

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

Diffusion models produce high-quality text-to-image results, but their iterative denoising is computationally expensive.Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) emerges as a promising path to few-step distillation, but suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haoyu Li , Tingyan Wen , Lin Qi , Zhe Wu , Yihuang Chen , Xing Zhou , Lifei Zhu , Xueqian Wang , Kai Zhang

Model compression is critical for deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained devices. We introduce a novel method enhancing knowledge distillation with integrated gradients (IG) as a data augmentation strategy. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 David E. Hernandez , Jose Chang , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

Diffusion models excel at generative modeling (e.g., text-to-image) but sampling requires multiple denoising network passes, limiting practicality. Efforts such as progressive distillation or consistency distillation have shown promise by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Risheek Garrepalli , Shweta Mahajan , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has recently emerged in text-to-image generation as a lightweight technique to encourage prompt-adherence in generations. In this work, we demonstrate that CFG can be used broadly as an inference-time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Guillaume Sanchez , Honglu Fan , Alexander Spangher , Elad Levi , Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi , Stella Biderman

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) faces considerable challenges concerning resource constraints and inference efficiency. Recent research has increasingly focused on smaller, task-specific models enhanced by distilling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Wei Wang , Zhaowei Li , Qi Xu , Yiqing Cai , Hang Song , Qi Qi , Ran Zhou , Zhida Huang , Tao Wang , Li Xiao

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is an essential component of text-to-image diffusion models, and understanding and advancing its operational mechanisms remains a central focus of research. Existing approaches stem from divergent theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Kaibo Wang , Jianda Mao , Tong Wu , Yang Xiang

Diffusion probabilistic models have shown significant progress in video generation; however, their computational efficiency is limited by the large number of sampling steps required. Reducing sampling steps often compromises video quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zihan Ding , Chi Jin , Difan Liu , Haitian Zheng , Krishna Kumar Singh , Qiang Zhang , Yan Kang , Zhe Lin , Yuchen Liu

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the role of Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) in text-conditioned diffusion models from the perspective of inference efficiency. In particular, we relax the default choice of applying CFG in all…

Retrieval-augmented generation framework can address the limitations of large language models by enabling real-time knowledge updates for more accurate answers. An efficient way in the training phase of retrieval-augmented models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zizhong Li , Haopeng Zhang , Jiawei Zhang

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