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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) has been widely used in text-to-image diffusion models, where the CFG scale is introduced to control the strength of text guidance on the whole image space. However, we argue that a global CFG scale results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Dazhong Shen , Guanglu Song , Zeyue Xue , Fu-Yun Wang , Yu Liu

Images generated by diffusion models like Stable Diffusion are increasingly widespread. Recent works and even lawsuits have shown that these models are prone to replicating their training data, unbeknownst to the user. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Gowthami Somepalli , Vasu Singla , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Recent advances in generative models have demonstrated an exceptional ability to produce highly realistic images. However, previous studies show that generated images often resemble the training data, and this problem becomes more severe as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Er Jin , Yang Zhang , Yongli Mou , Yanfei Dong , Stefan Decker , Kenji Kawaguchi , Johannes Stegmaier

Transfer learning of StyleGAN has recently shown great potential to solve diverse tasks, especially in domain translation. Previous methods utilized a source model by swapping or freezing weights during transfer learning, however, they have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Dongyeun Lee , Jae Young Lee , Doyeon Kim , Jaehyun Choi , Junmo Kim

Recent work has shown that inference-time reasoning and reflection can improve text-to-image generation without retraining. However, existing approaches often rely on implicit, holistic critiques or unconstrained prompt rewrites, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 V. Kovalev , A. Kuvshinov , A. Buzovkin , D. Pokidov , D. Timonin

Multi-modal models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated strong performance in aligning visual and textual representations, excelling in tasks like image retrieval and zero-shot classification. Despite this success, the mechanisms by which these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wenhao Wang , Adam Dziedzic , Grace C. Kim , Michael Backes , Franziska Boenisch

Generating multiple new concepts remains a challenging problem in the text-to-image task. Current methods often overfit when trained on a small number of samples and struggle with attribute leakage, particularly for class-similar subjects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Gia-Nghia Tran , Quang-Huy Che , Trong-Tai Dam Vu , Bich-Nga Pham , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Trung-Nghia Le , Minh-Triet Tran

Face anonymization aims to conceal identity information while preserving non-identity attributes. Mainstream diffusion models rely on inference-time interventions such as negative guidance or energy-based optimization, which are applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoxin Yang , Yihong Lin , Jingdan Kang , Xuemiao Xu , Yue Li , Cheng Xu , Shengfeng He

Though diffusion-based video generation has witnessed rapid progress, the inference results of existing models still exhibit unsatisfactory temporal consistency and unnatural dynamics. In this paper, we delve deep into the noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Tianxing Wu , Chenyang Si , Yuming Jiang , Ziqi Huang , Ziwei Liu

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

A persistent challenge in generative audio models is data replication, where the model unintentionally generates parts of its training data during inference. In this work, we address this issue in text-to-audio diffusion models by exploring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Francisco Messina , Francesca Ronchini , Luca Comanducci , Paolo Bestagini , Fabio Antonacci

Text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in image generation. However, concerns about data privacy and intellectual property remain due to their potential to inadvertently memorize and replicate training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Antoni Kowalczuk , Dominik Hintersdorf , Lukas Struppek , Kristian Kersting , Adam Dziedzic , Franziska Boenisch

In real-world applications, the sample distribution at the inference stage often differs from the one at the training stage, causing performance degradation of trained deep models. The research on domain generalization (DG) aims to develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiao Zhang , Jian Xu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Large denoising diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have been trained on billions of image-caption pairs to perform text-conditioned image generation. As a byproduct of this training, these models have acquired general knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alexandros Graikos , Nebojsa Jojic , Dimitris Samaras

In recent years, semantic segmentation has taken benefit from various works in computer vision. Inspired by the very versatile CycleGAN architecture, we combine semantic segmentation with the concept of cycle consistency to enable a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jonas Löhdefink , Tim Fingscheidt

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks, especially in the domain of text-to-image synthesis; however, their iterative denoising process demands substantial computational resources. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xinle Cheng , Zhuoming Chen , Zhihao Jia

Pre-trained diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in synthesizing images across a wide range of scenarios with customizable prompts, indicating their effective capacity to capture universal features. Motivated by this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yuxiang Ji , Boyong He , Chenyuan Qu , Zhuoyue Tan , Chuan Qin , Liaoni Wu

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but remain computationally costly due to iterative denoising. Latent-space models like Stable Diffusion reduce overhead yet lose fine detail, while retrieval-augmented methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis, but they demand extensive computational and memory resources for training, fine-tuning and inference. Although advanced quantization techniques have successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hoigi Seo , Wongi Jeong , Kyungryeol Lee , Se Young Chun