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We investigate the theoretical foundations of classifier-free guidance (CFG). CFG is the dominant method of conditional sampling for text-to-image diffusion models, yet unlike other aspects of diffusion, it remains on shaky theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Arwen Bradley , Preetum Nakkiran

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is an essential mechanism in contemporary text-driven diffusion models. In practice, in controlling the impact of guidance we can see the trade-off between the quality of the generated images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Dawid Malarz , Artur Kasymov , Maciej Zięba , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

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

Guidance in image generation steers models towards higher-quality or more targeted outputs, typically achieved in Diffusion Models (DMs) via Classifier-free Guidance (CFG). However, recent Consistency Models (CMs), which offer fewer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chia-Hong Hsu , Shiu-hong Kao , Randall Balestriero

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), which combines the conditional and unconditional score functions with two coefficients summing to one, serves as a practical technique for diffusion model sampling. Theoretically, however, denoising with CFG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mengfei Xia , Nan Xue , Yujun Shen , Ran Yi , Tieliang Gong , Yong-Jin Liu

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely adopted technique in diffusion/flow models to improve image fidelity and controllability. In this work, we first analytically study the effect of CFG on flow matching models trained on Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Weichen Fan , Amber Yijia Zheng , Raymond A. Yeh , Ziwei Liu

This research focuses on the development and enhancement of text-to-image denoising diffusion models, addressing key challenges such as limited sample diversity and training instability. By incorporating Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Rajdeep Roshan Sahu

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

Text-to-3D generation has made remarkable progress recently, particularly with methods based on Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) that leverages pre-trained 2D diffusion models. While the usage of classifier-free guidance is well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xin Yu , Yuan-Chen Guo , Yangguang Li , Ding Liang , Song-Hai Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) enhances the quality and condition adherence of text-to-image diffusion models. It operates by combining the conditional and unconditional predictions using a fixed weight. However, recent works vary the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Xi Wang , Nicolas Dufour , Nefeli Andreou , Marie-Paule Cani , Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , David Picard , Vicky Kalogeiton

Denoising diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images conditioned on text prompts, yet their effectiveness heavily relies on careful guidance during the sampling process. Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) provides a widely used…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shai Yehezkel , Omer Dahary , Andrey Voynov , Daniel Cohen-Or

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing. Many existing approaches rely on text prompts as editing guidance. However, these methods are constrained by the need for manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuanyuan Chang , Yinghua Yao , Tao Qin , Mengmeng Wang , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai

Can a text-to-image diffusion model be used as a training objective for adapting a GAN generator to another domain? In this paper, we show that the classifier-free guidance can be leveraged as a critic and enable generators to distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Kunpeng Song , Ligong Han , Bingchen Liu , Dimitris Metaxas , Ahmed Elgammal

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality samples and enhancing performance across diverse domains through Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, the quality of generated samples is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ao Chen , Lihe Ding , Tianfan Xue

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

One-step text-to-image generator models offer advantages such as swift inference efficiency, flexible architectures, and state-of-the-art generation performance. In this paper, we study the problem of aligning one-step generator models with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Weijian Luo

Text-based image segmentation aims to delineate object boundaries within an image from text prompts, offering higher flexibility and broader application scope compared to traditional fixed-category segmentation tasks. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zishen Qu , Xuesong Li , Haijian Gu , Hongwei Kang , Quan Meng , Tianrui Niu , Xin Yang , Ruidong Pan

One highly promising direction for enabling flexible real-time on-device image editing is utilizing data distillation by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models to generate paired datasets used for training generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yifan Gong , Zheng Zhan , Qing Jin , Yanyu Li , Yerlan Idelbayev , Xian Liu , Andrey Zharkov , Kfir Aberman , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

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

Scene text editing is a challenging task that involves modifying or inserting specified texts in an image while maintaining its natural and realistic appearance. Most previous approaches to this task rely on style-transfer models that crop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jiabao Ji , Guanhua Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Bairu Hou , Zhifei Zhang , Brian Price , Shiyu Chang