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Classifier-free Guidance (CFG) lets practitioners trade-off fidelity against diversity in Diffusion Models (DMs). The practicality of CFG is however hindered by DMs sampling cost. On the other hand, Consistency Models (CMs) generate images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chia-Hong Hsu , Randall Balestriero

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 emerged as the mainstream approach for visual generation. However, these models typically suffer from sample inefficiency and high training costs. Consequently, methods for efficient finetuning, inference and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Felix Krause , Timy Phan , Ming Gui , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) serves as the de facto control mechanism for conditional diffusion, yet high guidance scales notoriously induce oversaturation, texture artifacts, and structural collapse. We attribute this failure to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zexi Jia , Pengcheng Luo , Zhengyao Fang , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Masked diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for text and multimodal generation. However, their sampling procedure updates multiple tokens simultaneously and treats generated tokens as immutable, which may lead to error…

Guiding unconditional diffusion models typically requires either retraining with conditional inputs or per-step gradient computations (e.g., classifier-based guidance), both of which incur substantial computational overhead. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Qingsong Wang , Mikhail Belkin , Yusu Wang

Typical diffusion models are trained to accept a particular form of conditioning, most commonly text, and cannot be conditioned on other modalities without retraining. In this work, we propose a universal guidance algorithm that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Arpit Bansal , Hong-Min Chu , Avi Schwarzschild , Soumyadip Sengupta , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have attracted attention for their exceptional generation quality and diversity. This success is largely attributed to the use of class- or text-conditional diffusion guidance methods, such as classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Susung Hong , Gyuseong Lee , Wooseok Jang , Seungryong Kim

Time series generation (TSG) is widely used across domains, yet most existing methods assume regular sampling and fixed output resolutions. These assumptions are often violated in practice, where observations are irregular and sparse, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xu Zhang , Junwei Deng , Chang Xu , Hao Li , Jiang Bian

Classifier-free guidance has become a staple for conditional generation with denoising diffusion models. However, a comprehensive understanding of classifier-free guidance is still missing. In this work, we carry out an empirical study to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaoming Zhao , Alexander G. Schwing

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-face generation, but achieving fine-grained control over facial features remains a challenge. Existing methods often require training additional modules to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Liang Shi , Yun Fu

Image diversity remains a fundamental challenge for text-to-image diffusion models. Low-diversity models tend to generate repetitive outputs, increasing sampling redundancy and hindering both creative exploration and downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Debin Meng , Chen Jin , Zheng Gao , Yanran Li , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable progress in image generation quality, especially when guidance is used to control the generative process. However, guidance requires a large amount of image-annotation pairs for training and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Vincent Tao Hu , David W Zhang , Yuki M. Asano , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Cees G. M. Snoek

Despite recent advances, diffusion-based text-to-image models still struggle with accurate text rendering. Several studies have proposed fine-tuning or training-free refinement methods for accurate text rendering. However, the critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kanghyun Baek , Sangyub Lee , Jin Young Choi , Jaewoo Song , Daemin Park , Jooyoung Choi , Chaehun Shin , Bohyung Han , Sungroh Yoon

Topology optimization enables the design of highly efficient and complex structures, but conventional iterative methods, such as SIMP-based approaches, often suffer from high computational costs and sensitivity to initial conditions.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Aaron Lutheran , Srijan Das , Alireza Tabarraei

Conditional image generative models hold considerable promise to produce infinite amounts of synthetic training data. Yet, recent progress in generation quality has come at the expense of generation diversity, limiting the utility of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Nicola Dall'Asen , Xiaofeng Zhang , Reyhane Askari Hemmat , Melissa Hall , Jakob Verbeek , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Michal Drozdzal

Diffusion models excel in generating high-quality images. However, current diffusion models struggle to produce reliable images without guidance methods, such as classifier-free guidance (CFG). Are guidance methods truly necessary?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Donghoon Ahn , Jiwon Kang , Sanghyun Lee , Jaewon Min , Minjae Kim , Wooseok Jang , Hyoungwon Cho , Sayak Paul , SeonHwa Kim , Eunju Cha , Kyong Hwan Jin , Seungryong Kim

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

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently received a lot of interest for their astonishing ability to produce high-fidelity images from text only. However, achieving one-shot generation that aligns with the user's intent is nearly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Manuel Brack , Felix Friedrich , Dominik Hintersdorf , Lukas Struppek , Patrick Schramowski , Kristian Kersting

Recent advances in diffusion models have shown remarkable potential in the conditional generation of novel molecules. These models can be guided in two ways: (i) explicitly, through additional features representing the condition, or (ii)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yuchen Shen , Chenhao Zhang , Sijie Fu , Chenghui Zhou , Newell Washburn , Barnabás Póczos