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Diffusion models deliver high quality in image synthesis but remain expensive during training and inference. Recent works have leveraged the inherent redundancy in visual content to make training more affordable by training only on a subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Felix Krause , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Johannes Schusterbauer , Olga Grebenkova , Ming Gui , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved enormous success in the field of image generation and manipulation. In this paper, we explore a novel paradigm of using the diffusion model and classifier guidance in the latent semantic space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Changhao Shi , Haomiao Ni , Kai Li , Shaobo Han , Mingfu Liang , Martin Renqiang Min

We study masked discrete diffusion models with classifier-free guidance (CFG). Assuming no score error nor discretization error, we derive an explicit solution to the guided reverse dynamics, so that how guidance influences the sampling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 He Ye , Rojas Kevin , Tao Molei

Data scarcity in the brain-computer interface field can be alleviated through the use of generative models, specifically diffusion models. While diffusion models have previously been successfully applied to electroencephalogram (EEG) data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Guido Klein , Pierre Guetschel , Gianluigi Silvestri , Michael Tangermann

Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) are an attractive generative modeling technique, but they have been held back by limitations in their simulation-based maximum likelihood training. We introduce the generalized conditional flow matching…

In this paper, we propose Tortoise and Hare Guidance (THG), a training-free strategy that accelerates diffusion sampling while maintaining high-fidelity generation. We demonstrate that the noise estimate and the additional guidance term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yunghee Lee , Byeonghyun Pak , Junwha Hong , Hoseong Kim

Reliable zero-shot detection of out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs is critical for deploying vision-language models in open-world settings. However, the lack of labeled negatives in zero-shot OOD detection necessitates proxy signals that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hao Tang , Yu Liu , Shuanglin Yan , Fei Shen , Shengfeng He , Jing Qin

Diffusion models have recently been shown to generate high-quality synthetic images, especially when paired with a guidance technique to trade off diversity for fidelity. We explore diffusion models for the problem of text-conditional image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Alex Nichol , Prafulla Dhariwal , Aditya Ramesh , Pranav Shyam , Pamela Mishkin , Bob McGrew , Ilya Sutskever , Mark Chen

While classifier-free guidance (CFG) is essential for conditional diffusion models, it doubles the number of neural function evaluations (NFEs) per inference step. To mitigate this inefficiency, we introduce adapter guidance distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Cristian Perez Jensen , Seyedmorteza Sadat

Recent advances in diffusion models attempt to handle conditional generative tasks by utilizing a differentiable loss function for guidance without the need for additional training. While these methods achieved certain success, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Lingxiao Yang , Shutong Ding , Yifan Cai , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi

Diffusion and flow-based models have enabled significant progress in generation tasks across various modalities and have recently found applications in predictive learning. However, unlike typical generation tasks that encourage sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu Zhang , Xingzhuo Guo , Haoran Xu , Jialong Wu , Mingsheng Long

Conditional diffusion inversion provides a powerful framework for unpaired image-to-image translation. However, we demonstrate through an extensive analysis that standard deterministic inversion (e.g. DDIM) fails when the source domain is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Nicolas Bourriez , Alexandre Verine , Auguste Genovesio

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

Discrete diffusion has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling in discrete domains, yet efficiently sampling from these models remains challenging. Existing sampling strategies often struggle to balance computation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yixiu Zhao , Jiaxin Shi , Feng Chen , Shaul Druckmann , Lester Mackey , Scott Linderman

Multi-turn compositional image generation (M-CIG) is a challenging task that aims to iteratively manipulate a reference image given a modification text. While most of the existing methods for M-CIG are based on generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Chao Wang

The growing demand for text-to-image generation has led to rapid advances in generative modeling. Recently, text-to-image diffusion models trained with flow matching algorithms, such as FLUX, have achieved remarkable progress and emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zikai Zhou , Muyao Wang , Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Haoyi Xiong , Bo Han , Zeke Xie

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

Recent progress with conditional image diffusion models has been stunning, and this holds true whether we are speaking about models conditioned on a text description, a scene layout, or a sketch. Unconditional image diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 William Harvey , Frank Wood

Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image generation. However, their demanding computational requirements for training have prompted ongoing efforts to enhance the quality of generated images through modifications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Eleftherios Tsonis , Paraskevi Tzouveli , Athanasios Voulodimos

We propose LOGDIFF (Logical Guidance for the Exact Composition of Diffusion Models), a guidance framework for diffusion models that enables principled constrained generation with complex logical expressions at inference time. We study when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Francesco Alesiani , Jonathan Warrell , Tanja Bien , Henrik Christiansen , Matheus Ferraz , Mathias Niepert