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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

In light of the widespread success of generative models, a significant amount of research has gone into speeding up their sampling time. However, generative models are often sampled multiple times to obtain a diverse set incurring a cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Gabriele Corso , Yilun Xu , Valentin de Bortoli , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have attracted attention for their exceptional generation quality and diversity. This success is largely attributed to the use of class- or text-conditional diffusion guidance methods, such as classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Susung Hong , Gyuseong Lee , Wooseok Jang , Seungryong Kim

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

Diffusion models have revolutionized video generation, becoming essential tools in creative content generation and physical simulation. Transformer-based architectures (DiTs) and classifier-free guidance (CFG) are two cornerstones of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zhiye Song , Steve Dai , Ben Keller , Brucek Khailany

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

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 have demonstrated remarkable performance in image generation. However, their demanding computational requirements for training have prompted ongoing efforts to enhance the quality of generated images through modifications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Eleftherios Tsonis , Paraskevi Tzouveli , Athanasios Voulodimos

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) improves sample quality in diffusion models, but its dual-pass inference and reliance on null-condition training limit its use in few-step regimes. Attention-space guidance has emerged as a complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kwanyoung Kim

Diffusion models have demonstrated empirical successes in various applications and can be adapted to task-specific needs via guidance. This paper studies a form of gradient guidance for adapting a pre-trained diffusion model towards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-17 Yingqing Guo , Hui Yuan , Yukang Yang , Minshuo Chen , Mengdi Wang

Diffusion models are emerging expressive generative models, in which a large number of time steps (inference steps) are required for a single image generation. To accelerate such tedious process, reducing steps uniformly is considered as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lijiang Li , Huixia Li , Xiawu Zheng , Jie Wu , Xuefeng Xiao , Rui Wang , Min Zheng , Xin Pan , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is crucial for improving both generation quality and alignment between the input condition and final output in diffusion models. While a high guidance scale is generally required to enhance these aspects, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Otmar Hilliges , Romann M. Weber

Deep generative models (DGMs) of images are now sufficiently mature that they produce nearly photorealistic samples and obtain scores similar to the data distribution on heuristics such as Frechet Inception Distance (FID). These results,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Suman Ravuri , Oriol Vinyals

Diffusion models have become emerging generative models. Their sampling process involves multiple steps, and in each step the models predict the noise from a noisy sample. When the models make prediction, the output deviates from the ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shifeng Xu , Yanzhu Liu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

We introduce segmentation-free guidance, a novel method designed for text-to-image diffusion models like Stable Diffusion. Our method does not require retraining of the diffusion model. At no additional compute cost, it uses the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Kambiz Azarian , Debasmit Das , Qiqi Hou , Fatih Porikli

Classifier guidance -- using the gradients of an image classifier to steer the generations of a diffusion model -- has the potential to dramatically expand the creative control over image generation and editing. However, currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Bram Wallace , Akash Gokul , Stefano Ermon , Nikhil Naik

Large-scale generative models are capable of producing high-quality images from detailed text descriptions. However, many aspects of an image are difficult or impossible to convey through text. We introduce self-guidance, a method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Dave Epstein , Allan Jabri , Ben Poole , Alexei A. Efros , Aleksander Holynski

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated an unparalleled ability to create diverse and high-fidelity images from text prompts. However, they are also well-known to vary substantially regarding both prompt adherence and quality. Negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Alakh Desai , Nuno Vasconcelos

Flow-based generative models have become a strong framework for high-quality generative modeling, yet pretrained models are rarely used in their vanilla conditional form: conditional samples without guidance often appear diffuse and lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Runlong Liao , Jian Yu , Baiyu Su , Chi Zhang , Lizhang Chen , Qiang Liu

Diffusion models have shown tremendous results in image generation. However, due to the iterative nature of the diffusion process and its reliance on classifier-free guidance, inference times are slow. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Ting Hsiao , Siavash Khodadadeh , Kevin Duarte , Wei-An Lin , Hui Qu , Mingi Kwon , Ratheesh Kalarot
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