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We introduce Policy Gradient Guidance (PGG), a simple extension of classifier-free guidance from diffusion models to classical policy gradient methods. PGG augments the policy gradient with an unconditional branch and interpolates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jianing Qi , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

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) enhances the quality and condition adherence of text-to-image diffusion models. It operates by combining the conditional and unconditional predictions using a fixed weight. However, recent works vary the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Xi Wang , Nicolas Dufour , Nefeli Andreou , Marie-Paule Cani , Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , David Picard , Vicky Kalogeiton

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

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has emerged as a pivotal advancement in text-to-image latent diffusion models, establishing itself as a cornerstone technique for achieving high-quality image synthesis. However, under high guidance weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Cheng Jin , Zhenyu Xiao , Chutao Liu , Yuantao Gu

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is crucial for improving both generation quality and alignment between the input condition and final output in diffusion models. While a high guidance scale is generally required to enhance these aspects, it…

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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image synthesis, largely attributed to the use of classifier-free guidance (CFG), which enables high-quality, condition-aligned image generation. CFG combines the conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mingi Kwon , Shin seong Kim , Jaeseok Jeong. Yi Ting Hsiao , Youngjung Uh

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…

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

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used mechanism for controlling diffusion-based generative models, yet its guidance scale is typically treated as a fixed hyperparameter throughout generation. This static design yields a suboptimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Fan Zhou , Tim Van de Cruys

We introduce a novel, training-free approach for enhancing alignment in Transformer-based Text-Guided Diffusion Models (TGDMs). Existing TGDMs often struggle to generate semantically aligned images, particularly when dealing with complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shulei Wang , Wang Lin , Hai Huang , Hanting Wang , Sihang Cai , WenKang Han , Tao Jin , Jingyuan Chen , Jiacheng Sun , Jieming Zhu , Zhou Zhao

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 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

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality samples and enhancing performance across diverse domains through Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, the quality of generated samples is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ao Chen , Lihe Ding , Tianfan Xue

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

The diffusion model presents a powerful ability to capture the entire (conditional) data distribution. However, due to the lack of sufficient training and data to learn to cover low-probability areas, the model will be penalized for failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xingyu Zhou , Qifan Li , Xiaobin Hu , Hai Chen , Shuhang Gu

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 widely used in diffusion models but often introduces over-contrast and over-saturation artifacts at higher guidance strengths. We present EP-CFG (Energy-Preserving Classifier-Free Guidance), which addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan , Sai Bi , Jianming Zhang

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

Training-free conditional diffusion provides a flexible alternative to task-specific conditional model training, but existing samplers often allocate computation inefficiently: independent guided trajectories can vary widely in quality, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-06 Andreas Makris , Paul Fearnhead , Chris Nemeth