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Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for improving the perceptual quality of samples from conditional diffusion models. It operates by linearly combining conditional and unconditional score estimates using a guidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Alexandre Galashov , Ashwini Pokle , Arnaud Doucet , Arthur Gretton , Mauricio Delbracio , Valentin De Bortoli

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a cornerstone of text-to-image diffusion models, yet its effectiveness is limited by the use of static guidance scales. This "one-size-fits-all" approach fails to adapt to the diverse requirements of…

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for improving conditional diffusion models by linearly combining the outputs of conditional and unconditional denoisers. While CFG enhances visual quality and improves alignment with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Badr Moufad , Yazid Janati , Alain Durmus , Ahmed Ghorbel , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used inference-time technique to boost the image quality of diffusion models. Yet, its reliance on text conditions prevents its use in unconditional generation. We propose a simple method to enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Weijia Zhang , Yuehao Liu , Shanyan Guan , Wu Ran , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Chao Ma

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is widely used to improve conditional fidelity in diffusion models, but its impact on sampling dynamics remains poorly understood. Prior studies, often restricted to unimodal conditional distributions or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Cheng Jin , Qitan Shi , Yuantao Gu

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for conditional generation and improving sample quality in continuous diffusion models, and its extensions to discrete diffusion has recently started to be investigated. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Kevin Rojas , Ye He , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Yuki Mitsufuji , Molei Tao

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is an essential component of text-to-image diffusion models, and understanding and advancing its operational mechanisms remains a central focus of research. Existing approaches stem from divergent theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Kaibo Wang , Jianda Mao , Tong Wu , Yang Xiang

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has become an essential component of modern conditional diffusion models. Although highly effective in practice, the underlying mechanisms by which CFG enhances quality, detail, and prompt alignment are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Tobias Vontobel , Farnood Salehi , Romann M. Weber

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a cornerstone of modern conditional diffusion models, yet its reliance on the fixed or heuristic dynamic guidance weight is predominantly empirical and overlooks the inherent dynamics of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jiayang Gao , Tianyi Zheng , Jiayang Zou , Fengxiang Yang , Shice Liu , Luyao Fan , Zheyu Zhang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Peng-Tao Jiang , Bo Li , Jia Wang

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely adopted technique in diffusion and flow-based generative models, enabling high-quality conditional generation. A key theoretical challenge is characterizing the distribution induced by CFG,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Krunoslav Lehman Pavasovic , Jakob Verbeek , Giulio Biroli , Marc Mezard

Classifier-free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique in modern diffusion models for enhancing sample quality and prompt adherence. However, through an empirical analysis on Gaussian mixture modeling with a closed-form solution, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chubin Chen , Jiashu Zhu , Xiaokun Feng , Nisha Huang , Chen Zhu , Meiqi Wu , Fangyuan Mao , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Xiu Li

This paper presents Model-guidance (MG), a novel objective for training diffusion model that addresses and removes of the commonly used Classifier-free guidance (CFG). Our innovative approach transcends the standard modeling of solely data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhicong Tang , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), which combines the conditional and unconditional score functions with two coefficients summing to one, serves as a practical technique for diffusion model sampling. Theoretically, however, denoising with CFG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mengfei Xia , Nan Xue , Yujun Shen , Ran Yi , Tieliang Gong , Yong-Jin Liu

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has become the standard method for enhancing the quality of conditional diffusion models. However, employing CFG requires either training an unconditional model alongside the main diffusion model or modifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Manuel Kansy , Otmar Hilliges , Romann M. Weber

Image generation using diffusion models have demonstrated outstanding learning capabilities, effectively capturing the full distribution of the training dataset. They are known to generate wide variations in sampled images, albeit with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rahul Shenoy , Zhihong Pan , Kaushik Balakrishnan , Qisen Cheng , Yongmoon Jeon , Heejune Yang , Jaewon Kim

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is an essential mechanism in contemporary text-driven diffusion models. In practice, in controlling the impact of guidance we can see the trade-off between the quality of the generated images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Dawid Malarz , Artur Kasymov , Maciej Zięba , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

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…

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) succeeds in condition diffusion models that use a guidance scale to balance the influence of conditional and unconditional terms. A high guidance scale is used to enhance the performance of the conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai

We investigate the theoretical foundations of classifier-free guidance (CFG). CFG is the dominant method of conditional sampling for text-to-image diffusion models, yet unlike other aspects of diffusion, it remains on shaky theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Arwen Bradley , Preetum Nakkiran

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) significantly enhances controllability in generative models by interpolating conditional and unconditional predictions. However, standard CFG often employs a static unconditional input, which can be suboptimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Pengxiang Li , Shilin Yan , Joey Tsai , Renrui Zhang , Ruichuan An , Ziyu Guo , Xiaowei Gao
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