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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

We present a novel framework for training 3D image-conditioned diffusion models using only 2D supervision. Recovering 3D structure from 2D images is inherently ill-posed due to the ambiguity of possible reconstructions, making generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chensheng Peng , Ido Sobol , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Chenfeng Xu , Or Litany

We introduce MxDiffusion, a hybrid physics- and data-driven diffusion-based framework that enables efficient and highly accurate generation of photonic structures from target optical properties. The improved accuracy is achieved through a…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-20 Sujoy Mondal , Taehyuk Park , Sudipta Biswas , Alan X. Wang , Wenshan Cai

Conditional diffusion models have shown remarkable success in visual content generation, producing high-quality samples across various domains, largely due to classifier-free guidance (CFG). Recent attempts to extend guidance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Susung Hong

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

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved impressive results in real-time 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, these methods struggle in large-scale, unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Tuan Pham , Qiao Wang , Ben Southall , Kshitij Minhas , Bogdan Matei , Stephan Mandt , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Diffusion models exhibit excellent sample quality, but existing guidance methods often require additional model training or are limited to specific tasks. We revisit guidance in diffusion models from the perspective of variational inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kushagra Pandey , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Felix Draxler , Theofanis Karaletsos , Stephan Mandt

Diffusion models based on permutation-equivariant networks can learn permutation-invariant distributions for graph data. However, in comparison to their non-invariant counterparts, we have found that these invariant models encounter greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Qi Yan , Zhengyang Liang , Yang Song , Renjie Liao , Lele Wang

Music inpainting aims to reconstruct missing segments of a corrupted recording. While diffusion-based generative models improve reconstruction for medium-length gaps, they often struggle to preserve musical plausibility over multi-second…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Sean Turland , Eloi Moliner , Vesa Välimäki

Diffusion Models are a potent class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images. However, they often inadvertently favor certain data attributes, undermining the diversity of generated images. This issue is starkly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xingzhe Su , Daixi Jia , Fengge Wu , Junsuo Zhao , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

Diffusion models are effective for waypoint prediction in visual navigation, but standard sampling and test time guidance can produce unreliable or inefficient trajectories when updates drift off the training manifold. We propose Fisher…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hao Ren , Zetong Bi , Yiming Zeng , Le Zheng , Zhi Li , Zhaoliang Wan , Lu Qi , Hui Cheng

Guiding unconditional diffusion models typically requires either retraining with conditional inputs or per-step gradient computations (e.g., classifier-based guidance), both of which incur substantial computational overhead. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Qingsong Wang , Mikhail Belkin , Yusu Wang

Blind image restoration remains a significant challenge in low-level vision tasks. Recently, denoising diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis. Guided diffusion models, leveraging the potent generative priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jun Xiao , Zihang Lyu , Hao Xie , Cong Zhang , Yakun Ju , Changjian Shui , Kin-Man Lam

Guidance techniques are commonly used in diffusion and flow models to improve image quality and input consistency for conditional generative tasks such as class-conditional and text-to-image generation. In particular, classifier-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tariq Berrada Ifriqi , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek , Karteek Alahari

Masked image modeling (MIM) is a highly effective self-supervised learning (SSL) approach to extract useful feature representations from unannotated data. Predominantly used random masking methods make SSL less effective for medical images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jue Jiang , Aneesh Rangnekar , Harini Veeraraghavan

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has emerged as a central approach for enhancing semantic alignment in flow-based diffusion models. In this paper, we explore a unified framework called CFG-Ctrl, which reinterprets CFG as a control applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hanyang Wang , Yiyang Liu , Jiawei Chi , Fangfu Liu , Ran Xue , Yueqi Duan

World models enable planning in imagined future predicted space, offering a promising framework for embodied navigation. However, existing navigation world models often lack action-conditioned consistency, so visually plausible predictions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Han Yan , Zishang Xiang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Recent progress in generative modeling has enabled high-quality visual synthesis with diffusion-based frameworks, supporting controllable sampling and large-scale training. Inference-time guidance methods such as classifier-free and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Wenqiang Zu , Shenghao Xie , Bo Lei , Lei Ma

Large-scale generative models, such as text-to-image diffusion models, have garnered widespread attention across diverse domains due to their creative and high-fidelity image generation. Nonetheless, existing large-scale diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Younghyun Kim , Geunmin Hwang , Junyu Zhang , Eunbyung Park

We present a simple but effective training-free approach for text-driven image-to-image translation based on a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model. Our goal is to generate an image that aligns with the target task while preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hyunsoo Lee , Minsoo Kang , Bohyung Han