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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…

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Diffusion models achieve strong performance in generative modeling, but their success often relies heavily on classifier-free guidance (CFG), an inference-time heuristic that modifies the sampling trajectory. In theory, diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xiang Li , Yixuan Jia , Xiao Li , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Rongrong Wang , Qing Qu

Diffusion models generate synthetic images through an iterative refinement process. However, the misalignment between the simulation-free objective and the iterative process often causes accumulated gradient error along the sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Liangyu Yuan , Yufei Huang , Mingkun Lei , Tong Zhao , Ruoyu Wang , Changxi Chi , Yiwei Wang , Chi Zhang

Despite recent advances, diffusion-based text-to-image models still struggle with accurate text rendering. Several studies have proposed fine-tuning or training-free refinement methods for accurate text rendering. However, the critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kanghyun Baek , Sangyub Lee , Jin Young Choi , Jaewoo Song , Daemin Park , Jooyoung Choi , Chaehun Shin , Bohyung Han , Sungroh Yoon

Large generative diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation and offer immense potential for conditional generation tasks such as image enhancement, restoration, editing, and compositing. However, their widespread adoption…

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Centred on content modification and style preservation, Scene Text Editing (STE) remains a challenging task despite considerable progress in text-to-image synthesis and text-driven image manipulation recently. GAN-based STE methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Weichao Zeng , Yan Shu , Zhenhang Li , Dongbao Yang , Yu Zhou

We present Corgi, a novel method for text-to-image generation. Corgi is based on our proposed shifted diffusion model, which achieves better image embedding generation from input text. Unlike the baseline diffusion model used in DALL-E 2,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yufan Zhou , Bingchen Liu , Yizhe Zhu , Xiao Yang , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

Diffusion models have shown significant progress in image translation tasks recently. However, due to their stochastic nature, there's often a trade-off between style transformation and content preservation. Current strategies aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Gihyun Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

In this work, we propose a method that leverages CLIP feature distillation, achieving efficient 3D segmentation through language guidance. Unlike previous methods that rely on multi-scale CLIP features and are limited by processing speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Xingyu Miao , Haoran Duan , Yang Bai , Tejal Shah , Jun Song , Yang Long , Rajiv Ranjan , Ling Shao

Diffusion models generate high-quality images through progressive denoising but are computationally intensive due to large model sizes and repeated sampling. Knowledge distillation, which transfers knowledge from a complex teacher to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Dohyun Kim , Sehwan Park , Geonhee Han , Seung Wook Kim , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Diffusion-based text-to-image generation models like GLIDE and DALLE-2 have gained wide success recently for their superior performance in turning complex text inputs into images of high quality and wide diversity. In particular, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zhihong Pan , Xin Zhou , Hao Tian

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

Text-guided diffusion models have become essential for high-quality image synthesis, enabling dynamic image editing. In image editing, two crucial aspects are editability, which determines the extent of modification, and faithfulness, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Hansam Cho , Seoung Bum Kim

While diffusion models have achieved great success in the field of video generation, this progress is accompanied by a rapidly escalating computational burden. Among the existing acceleration methods, Feature Caching is popular due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chang Zou , Changlin Li , Yang Li , Patrol Li , Jianbing Wu , Xiao He , Songtao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Kailin Huang , Linfeng Zhang

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated tremendous success in synthesizing visually stunning images given textual instructions. Despite remarkable progress in creating high-fidelity visuals, text-to-image models can still struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Taewook Kim , Ze Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Jiang Wang , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu , Qiang Qiu

Diffusion and flow-based generative models dominate visual synthesis, with guidance aligning samples to user input and improving perceptual quality. However, Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) and extrapolation-based methods are heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Parsa Esmati , Junha Hyung , Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Jaegul Choo , Majid Mirmehdi

Discrete diffusion models have achieved success in tasks like image generation and masked language modeling but face limitations in controlled content editing. We introduce DICE (Discrete Inversion for Controllable Editing), the first…

Current text recognition systems, including those for handwritten scripts and scene text, have relied heavily on image synthesis and augmentation, since it is difficult to realize real-world complexity and diversity through collecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yuanzhi Zhu , Zhaohai Li , Tianwei Wang , Mengchao He , Cong Yao

We introduce a new method to efficiently create text-to-image models from a pre-trained CLIP and StyleGAN. It enables text driven sampling with an existing generative model without any external data or fine-tuning. This is achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Justin N. M. Pinkney , Chuan Li

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

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