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Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Text-to-image diffusion models have advanced towards more controllable generation via supporting various additional conditions (e.g.,depth map, bounding box) beyond text. However, these models are learned based on the premise of perfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Luozhou Wang , Guibao Shen , Wenhang Ge , Guangyong Chen , Yijun Li , Ying-cong Chen

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in text-to-image tasks, leading to their widespread use. With the introduction of classifier-free guidance (CFG), the quality of images generated by DMs is significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jiadong Pan , Liang Li , Hongcheng Gao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Qingming Huang , Jiebo Luo

Given an unconditional generative model and a predictor for a target property (e.g., a classifier), the goal of training-free guidance is to generate samples with desirable target properties without additional training. As a highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Haowei Lin , Shanda Li , Haotian Ye , Yiming Yang , Stefano Ermon , Yitao Liang , Jianzhu Ma

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models for graph generation, yet their use for conditional graph generation remains a fundamental challenge. In particular, guiding diffusion models on graphs under arbitrary reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Victor M. Tenorio , Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Score-based diffusion models have emerged as one of the most promising frameworks for deep generative modelling. In this work we conduct a systematic comparison and theoretical analysis of different approaches to learning conditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Christian Etmann

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has become a widely adopted and practical approach for enhancing generation quality and improving condition alignment. Recent studies have explored guidance mechanisms for unconditional generation, yet these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chaoyang Wang , Tianmeng Yang , Jingdong Wang , Yunhai Tong

This paper reports on the development of \textbf{a novel style guided diffusion model (SGDiff)} which overcomes certain weaknesses inherent in existing models for image synthesis. The proposed SGDiff combines image modality with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhengwentai Sun , Yanghong Zhou , Honghong He , P. Y. Mok

Diffusion distillation has emerged as a promising strategy for accelerating text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models by distilling a pretrained score network into a one- or few-step generator. While existing methods have made notable progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mingyuan Zhou , Yi Gu , Zhendong Wang

Flow matching has demonstrated strong generative capabilities and has become a core component in modern Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. To ensure high-quality speech synthesis, Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is widely used during the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Yuzhe Liang , Wenzhe Liu , Chunyu Qiang , Zhikang Niu , Yushen Chen , Ziyang Ma , Wenxi Chen , Nan Li , Chen Zhang , Xie Chen

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in class-to-image generation. However, we observe that despite impressive FID scores, state-of-the-art models often generate distorted or low-quality images, especially in certain classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jie Shao , Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Guo-hua Wang , Jianxin Wu

Text-to-image diffusion models like Stable Diffusion generate high-quality images from text, but lack a way to inject visual guidance (e.g. sketches, styles) at inference without retraining. Existing methods either require computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Agata Żywot , Iason Skylitsis , Thijmen Nijdam , Zoe Tzifa-Kratira , Derck Prinzhorn , Konrad Szewczyk , Aritra Bhowmik

Recent advances in diffusion models attempt to handle conditional generative tasks by utilizing a differentiable loss function for guidance without the need for additional training. While these methods achieved certain success, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Lingxiao Yang , Shutong Ding , Yifan Cai , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi

While score based generative models, or diffusion models, have found success in image synthesis, they are often coupled with text data or image label to be able to manipulate and conditionally generate images. Even though manipulation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Sandesh Ghimire , Armand Comas , Davin Hill , Aria Masoomi , Octavia Camps , Jennifer Dy

In diffusion and flow-matching generative models, guidance techniques are widely used to improve sample quality and consistency. Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the de facto choice in modern systems and achieves this by contrasting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Ankit Yadav , Ta Duc Huy , Lingqiao Liu

Diffusion models have become a new generative paradigm for text generation. Considering the discrete categorical nature of text, in this paper, we propose GlyphDiffusion, a novel diffusion approach for text generation via text-guided image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Junyi Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

Score-based diffusion models (SDMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for sampling from the posterior distribution in Bayesian inverse problems. However, existing methods often require multiple evaluations of the forward mapping to generate a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Fabian Schneider , Duc-Lam Duong , Matti Lassas , Maarten V. de Hoop , Tapio Helin

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

Diffusion models deliver high quality in image synthesis but remain expensive during training and inference. Recent works have leveraged the inherent redundancy in visual content to make training more affordable by training only on a subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Felix Krause , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Johannes Schusterbauer , Olga Grebenkova , Ming Gui , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

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
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