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Recent studies have demonstrated that diffusion models are capable of generating high-quality samples, but their quality heavily depends on sampling guidance techniques, such as classifier guidance (CG) and classifier-free guidance (CFG).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Donghoon Ahn , Hyoungwon Cho , Jaewon Min , Wooseok Jang , Jungwoo Kim , SeonHwa Kim , Hyun Hee Park , Kyong Hwan Jin , Seungryong Kim

Text-driven diffusion models have exhibited impressive generative capabilities, enabling various image editing tasks. In this paper, we propose TF-ICON, a novel Training-Free Image COmpositioN framework that harnesses the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Shilin Lu , Yanzhu Liu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for generating high-quality images, videos, and 3D content. While sampling guidance techniques like CFG improve quality, they reduce diversity and motion. Autoguidance mitigates these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Junha Hyung , Kinam Kim , Susung Hong , Min-Jung Kim , Jaegul Choo

Controllable image synthesis with user scribbles has gained huge public interest with the recent advent of text-conditioned latent diffusion models. The user scribbles control the color composition while the text prompt provides control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jaskirat Singh , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

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

Although recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models excel at aligning generated images with textual prompts, controlling the visual style of the output remains a challenging task. In this work, we propose Style-Prompting Guidance (SPG), a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Qian Liang , Zichong Chen , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang

High-fidelity text-to-image and text-to-video generation typically relies on Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), but achieving optimal results often demands computationally expensive sampling schedules. In this work, we propose MAMBO-G, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shangwen Zhu , Qianyu Peng , Zhilei Shu , Yuting Hu , Zhantao Yang , Han Zhang , Zhao Pu , Andy Zheng , Xinyu Cui , Jian Zhao , Ruili Feng , Fan Cheng

In subject-driven text-to-image synthesis, the synthesis process tends to be heavily influenced by the reference images provided by users, often overlooking crucial attributes detailed in the text prompt. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yang Zhao , Xuhui Jia , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Huisheng Wang

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 models have demonstrated strong generative performance when using guidance methods such as classifier-free guidance (CFG), which enhance output quality by modifying the sampling trajectory. These methods typically improve a target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Kwanyoung Kim

In this paper, we consider the conditional generation problem by guiding off-the-shelf unconditional diffusion models with differentiable loss functions in a plug-and-play fashion. While previous research has primarily focused on balancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Youyuan Zhang , Zehua Liu , Zenan Li , Zhaoyu Li , James J. Clark , Xujie Si

The design of diffusion-based audio generation systems has been investigated from diverse perspectives, such as data space, network architecture, and conditioning techniques, while most of these innovations require model re-training. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Junyou Wang , Zehua Chen , Binjie Yuan , Kaiwen Zheng , Chang Li , Yuxuan Jiang , Jun Zhu

Recent progress with conditional image diffusion models has been stunning, and this holds true whether we are speaking about models conditioned on a text description, a scene layout, or a sketch. Unconditional image diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 William Harvey , Frank Wood

Training-free conditional diffusion models have received great attention in conditional image generation tasks. However, they require a computationally expensive conditional score estimator to let the intermediate results of each step in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai

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

Text-guided semantic manipulation refers to semantically editing an image generated from a source prompt to match a target prompt, enabling the desired semantic changes (e.g., addition, removal, and style transfer) while preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yu Hong , Xiao Cai , Pengpeng Zeng , Shuai Zhang , Jingkuan Song , Lianli Gao , Heng Tao Shen

Generating stylistic text with specific attributes is a key problem in controllable text generation. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for both visual and textual generation. Existing approaches can be broadly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Fan Zhou , Chang Tian , Tim Van de Cruys

Text-conditioned image generation has made significant progress in recent years with generative adversarial networks and more recently, diffusion models. While diffusion models conditioned on text prompts have produced impressive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Azade Farshad , Yousef Yeganeh , Yu Chi , Chengzhi Shen , Björn Ommer , Nassir Navab

The emergence of text-driven motion synthesis technique provides animators with great potential to create efficiently. However, in most cases, textual expressions only contain general and qualitative motion descriptions, while lack fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dong Wei , Xiaoning Sun , Huaijiang Sun , Bin Li , Shengxiang Hu , Weiqing Li , Jianfeng Lu

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the primary control over how strongly text semantics move a flow-based sampler, yet standard practice holds its scale fixed across the entire ODE trajectory. This is a fundamental mismatch: early steps are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yan Luo , Ahmadou Aidara , Jingyi Lu , Jeremy Moebel , Kai Han , Mengyu Wang