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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-based editing models have emerged as a powerful tool for semantic image and video manipulation. However, existing models lack a mechanism for smoothly controlling the intensity of text-guided edits. In standard text-conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alon Wolf , Chen Katzir , Kfir Aberman , Or Patashnik

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

Guidance of generative models is typically achieved by modifying the probability flow vector field through the addition of a guidance field. In this paper, we instead propose the Source-Guided Flow Matching (SGFM) framework, which modifies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Zifan Wang , Alice Harting , Matthieu Barreau , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

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

While methods exist for aligning flow matching models--a popular and effective class of generative models--with human preferences, existing approaches fail to achieve both adaptation efficiency and probabilistically sound prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhen Liu , Tim Z. Xiao , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Weiyang Liu , Dinghuai Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in synthesizing complex static and temporal visuals, a breakthrough largely driven by Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, despite its pivotal role in aligning generated content with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Haosen Li , Wenshuo Chen , Lei Wang , Shaofeng Liang , Bowen Tian , Soning Lai , Yutao Yue

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

Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) models can generate high-quality samples from a non-informative prior, but they can be slow, often needing hundreds of network evaluations (NFE). To address this, we propose Implicit Dynamical Flow Fusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mohammad R. Rezaei , Milos R. Popovic , Milad Lankarany , Rahul G. Krishnan

Flow matching as a paradigm of generative model achieves notable success across various domains. However, existing methods use either multi-round training or knowledge within minibatches, posing challenges in finding a favorable coupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Siyu Xing , Jie Cao , Huaibo Huang , Haichao Shi , Xiao-Yu Zhang

Existing generative models for time series forecasting often transform simple priors (typically Gaussian) into complex data distributions. However, their sampling initialization, independent of historical data, hinders the capture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Huibo Xu , Runlong Yu , Likang Wu , Xianquan Wang , Qi Liu

In generative modeling, we often wish to produce samples that maximize a user-specified reward such as aesthetic quality or alignment with human preferences, a problem known as \textit{guidance}. Despite their widespread use, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jerry Y. Huang , Justin Lin , Sheel Shah , Kartik Nair , Nicholas M. Boffi

Personalizing text-to-image diffusion models is crucial for adapting the pre-trained models to specific target concepts, enabling diverse image generation. However, fine-tuning with few images introduces an inherent trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Sunghyun Park , Seokeon Choi , Hyoungwoo Park , Sungrack Yun

Flow models have rapidly become the go-to method for training and deploying large-scale generators, owing their success to inference-time flexibility via adjustable integration steps. A crucial ingredient in flow training is the choice of…

Flow matching has emerged as a promising framework for training generative models, demonstrating impressive empirical performance while offering relative ease of training compared to diffusion-based models. However, this method still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Quan Dao , Hao Phung , Trung Dao , Dimitris Metaxas , Anh Tran

Two fundamental problems in unsupervised learning are efficient inference for latent-variable models and robust density estimation based on large amounts of unlabeled data. Algorithms for the two tasks, such as normalizing flows and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-02 Changyou Chen , Chunyuan Li , Liqun Chen , Wenlin Wang , Yunchen Pu , Lawrence Carin

This paper introduces a novel framework for image quality transfer based on conditional flow matching (CFM). Unlike conventional generative models that rely on iterative sampling or adversarial objectives, CFM learns a continuous flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Huu Tien Nguyen , Ahmed Karam Eldaly

Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, particularly for text-to-image generation. Despite its flexibility in allowing arbitrary source distributions, most existing approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Junwan Kim , Jiho Park , Seonghu Jeon , Seungryong Kim

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular simulations have become a standard tool to study molecular processes on time- and length-scales inaccessible to all-atom simulations. Parameterizing CG force fields to match all-atom simulations has mainly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Jonas Köhler , Yaoyi Chen , Andreas Krämer , Cecilia Clementi , Frank Noé

Customizing diffusion models to generate identity-preserving images from user-provided reference images is an intriguing new problem. The prevalent approaches typically require training on extensive domain-specific images to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Zhicheng Sun , Zhenhao Yang , Yang Jin , Haozhe Chi , Kun Xu , Kun Xu , Liwei Chen , Hao Jiang , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Yadong Mu
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