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Flow-matching-based text-to-speech (TTS) models, such as Voicebox, E2 TTS, and F5-TTS, have attracted significant attention in recent years. These models require multiple sampling steps to reconstruct speech from noise, making inference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Qixi Zheng , Yushen Chen , Zhikang Niu , Ziyang Ma , Xiaofei Wang , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

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 paper introduces F5-TTS, a fully non-autoregressive text-to-speech system based on flow matching with Diffusion Transformer (DiT). Without requiring complex designs such as duration model, text encoder, and phoneme alignment, the text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Yushen Chen , Zhikang Niu , Ziyang Ma , Keqi Deng , Chunhui Wang , Jian Zhao , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has recently emerged in text-to-image generation as a lightweight technique to encourage prompt-adherence in generations. In this work, we demonstrate that CFG can be used broadly as an inference-time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Guillaume Sanchez , Honglu Fan , Alexander Spangher , Elad Levi , Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi , Stella Biderman

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for controllable generation in diffusion and flow-based models. Despite its empirical success, CFG relies on a heuristic linear extrapolation that is often sensitive to the guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jian-Feng Cai , Haixia Liu , Zhengyi Su , Chao Wang

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the workhorse for steering large diffusion models toward text-conditioned targets, yet its native application to rectified flow (RF) based models provokes severe off-manifold drift, yielding visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shreshth Saini , Shashank Gupta , Alan C. Bovik

Flow-matching-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have shown high-quality speech synthesis. However, most current flow-matching-based TTS models still rely on reference transcripts corresponding to the audio prompt for synthesis. This…

Recent advances in text-to-image synthesis largely benefit from sophisticated sampling strategies and classifier-free guidance (CFG) to ensure high-quality generation. However, CFG's reliance on two forward passes, especially when combined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Minghao Fu , Guo-Hua Wang , Xiaohao Chen , Qing-Guo Chen , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang

Classifier-free guidance is a key component for enhancing the performance of conditional generative models across diverse tasks. While it has previously demonstrated remarkable improvements for the sample quality, it has only been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Qinqing Zheng , Matt Le , Neta Shaul , Yaron Lipman , Aditya Grover , Ricky T. Q. Chen

We present F5R-TTS, a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system that integrates Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) into a flow-matching based architecture. By reformulating the deterministic outputs of flow-matching TTS into probabilistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Xiaohui Sun , Ruitong Xiao , Jianye Mo , Bowen Wu , Qun Yu , Baoxun Wang

Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently advanced significantly, enabling models to synthesize speech from text using short, limited-context prompts. These prompts serve as voice exemplars, allowing the model to mimic speaker identity,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hieu-Nghia Huynh-Nguyen , Huynh Nguyen Dang , Ngoc-Son Nguyen , Van Nguyen

We introduce RapFlow-TTS, a rapid and high-fidelity TTS acoustic model that leverages velocity consistency constraints in flow matching (FM) training. Although ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based TTS generation achieves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Hyun Joon Park , Jeongmin Liu , Jin Sob Kim , Jeong Yeol Yang , Sung Won Han , Eunwoo Song

In zero-shot text-to-speech, achieving a balance between fidelity to the target speaker and adherence to text content remains a challenge. While classifier-free guidance (CFG) strategies have shown promising results in image generation,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 John Zheng , Farhad Maleki

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has been a default technique in various visual generative models, yet it requires inference from both conditional and unconditional models during sampling. We propose to build visual models that are free from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Huayu Chen , Kai Jiang , Kaiwen Zheng , Jianfei Chen , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is essential for high-fidelity conditional generation in flow matching, yet it imposes significant computational overhead by requiring dual forward passes at each sampling step. In this work, we address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xin Peng , Ang Gao

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the role of Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) in text-conditioned diffusion models from the perspective of inference efficiency. In particular, we relax the default choice of applying CFG in all…

While Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems enable emotional control via natural-language instructions, expressiveness, naturalness, and speech quality degrade when the target emotion conflicts with the textual semantics. We propose a Cross-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yizhou Peng , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Yi-Wen Chao , Chongjia Ni , Bin Ma , Eng Siong Chng

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

We propose Shallow Flow Matching (SFM), a novel mechanism that enhances flow matching (FM)-based text-to-speech (TTS) models within a coarse-to-fine generation paradigm. Unlike conventional FM modules, which use the coarse representations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Dong Yang , Yiyi Cai , Yuki Saito , Lixu Wang , Hiroshi Saruwatari

We propose Guided-TTS, a high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) model that does not require any transcript of target speaker using classifier guidance. Guided-TTS combines an unconditional diffusion probabilistic model with a separately trained…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Heeseung Kim , Sungwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon
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