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Diffusion models have shown tremendous results in image generation. However, due to the iterative nature of the diffusion process and its reliance on classifier-free guidance, inference times are slow. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Ting Hsiao , Siavash Khodadadeh , Kevin Duarte , Wei-An Lin , Hui Qu , Mingi Kwon , Ratheesh Kalarot

Diffusion models have demonstrated superior performance across various generative tasks including images, videos, and audio. However, they encounter difficulties in directly generating high-resolution samples. Previously proposed solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Juno Hwang , Yong-Hyun Park , Junghyo Jo

Flow matching has demonstrated strong generative capabilities and has become a core component in modern Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. To ensure high-quality speech synthesis, Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is widely used during the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Yuzhe Liang , Wenzhe Liu , Chunyu Qiang , Zhikang Niu , Yushen Chen , Ziyang Ma , Wenxi Chen , Nan Li , Chen Zhang , Xie Chen

Classifier guidance is intended to steer a diffusion process such that a given classifier reliably recognizes the generated data point as a certain class. However, most classifier guidance approaches are restricted to robust classifiers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Philipp Vaeth , Dibyanshu Kumar , Benjamin Paassen , Magda Gregorová

Diffusion models have become emerging generative models. Their sampling process involves multiple steps, and in each step the models predict the noise from a noisy sample. When the models make prediction, the output deviates from the ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shifeng Xu , Yanzhu Liu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Conditional Flow Matching (CFM), a simulation-free method for training continuous normalizing flows, provides an efficient alternative to diffusion models for key tasks like image and video generation. The performance of CFM in solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aram Davtyan , Leello Tadesse Dadi , Volkan Cevher , Paolo Favaro

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art image generation. However, the random Gaussian noise used to start the diffusion process influences the final output, causing variations in image quality and prompt adherence. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Harvey Mannering , Zhiwu Huang , Adam Prugel-Bennett

Text-to-video diffusion models generate realistic videos, but often fail on prompts requiring fine-grained compositional understanding, such as relations between entities, attributes, actions, and motion directions. We hypothesize that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ariel Shaulov , Eitan Shaar , Amit Edenzon , Gal Chechik , Lior Wolf

Although diffusion model has shown great potential for generating higher quality images than GANs, slow sampling speed hinders its wide application in practice. Progressive distillation is thus proposed for fast sampling by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Wujie Sun , Defang Chen , Can Wang , Deshi Ye , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

To sample from an unconditionally trained Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), classifier guidance adds conditional information during sampling, but the gradients from classifiers, especially those not trained on noisy images,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Philipp Vaeth , Alexander M. Fruehwald , Benjamin Paassen , Magda Gregorova

Text-based image segmentation aims to delineate object boundaries within an image from text prompts, offering higher flexibility and broader application scope compared to traditional fixed-category segmentation tasks. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zishen Qu , Xuesong Li , Haijian Gu , Hongwei Kang , Quan Meng , Tianrui Niu , Xin Yang , Ruidong Pan

The class-conditional image generation based on diffusion models is renowned for generating high-quality and diverse images. However, most prior efforts focus on generating images for general categories, e.g., 1000 classes in ImageNet-1k. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ziying Pan , Kun Wang , Gang Li , Feihong He , Yongxuan Lai

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple input images acquired through various sources to synthesize a new fused image. Existing methods usually employ distinct constraint designs tailored to specific scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Bing Cao , Xingxin Xu , Pengfei Zhu , Qilong Wang , Qinghua Hu

Diffusion models are among the most effective methods for image generation. This is in particular because, unlike GANs, they can be easily conditioned during training to produce elements with desired class or properties. However, guiding a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Mateusz Poleski , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

Large-scale generative models are capable of producing high-quality images from detailed text descriptions. However, many aspects of an image are difficult or impossible to convey through text. We introduce self-guidance, a method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Dave Epstein , Allan Jabri , Ben Poole , Alexei A. Efros , Aleksander Holynski

By formulating data samples' formation as a Markov denoising process, diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performances in a collection of tasks. Recently, many variants of diffusion models have been proposed to enable controlled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Hengtong Zhang , Tingyang Xu

Guidance is a cornerstone of modern diffusion models, playing a pivotal role in conditional generation and enhancing the quality of unconditional samples. However, current approaches to guidance scheduling--determining the appropriate…

Diffusion models have shown impressive results in generating high-quality conditional samples using guidance techniques such as Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, existing methods often require additional training or neural function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kwanyoung Kim , Byeongsu Sim

We introduce meta-learning algorithms that perform zero-shot weight-space adaptation of neural network models to unseen tasks. Our methods repurpose the popular generative image synthesis techniques of natural language guidance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Elvis Nava , Seijin Kobayashi , Yifei Yin , Robert K. Katzschmann , Benjamin F. Grewe

This paper presents a test-time guidance method to improve the output quality of the human motion diffusion models without requiring additional training. To have negative guidance, Smooth Perturbation Guidance (SPG) builds a weak model by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Boseong Jeon