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Classifier free guidance is a standard method for conditional sampling in diffusion models, but its sampling rule is not aligned with the objective used in training. This mismatch induces a structural sampling error through the interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nakgyu Yang , Yechan Lee , SooJean Han

Diffusion and flow-based generative models dominate visual synthesis, with guidance aligning samples to user input and improving perceptual quality. However, Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) and extrapolation-based methods are heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Parsa Esmati , Junha Hyung , Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Jaegul Choo , Majid Mirmehdi

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

The paradigm shift from environment-unaware communication to intelligent environment-aware communication is expected to facilitate the acquisition of channel state information for future wireless communications. Channel Fingerprint (CF), as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhenzhou Jin , Li You , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xiqi Gao

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are a recent family of generative models that achieve state-of-the-art results. In order to obtain class-conditional generation, it was suggested to guide the diffusion process by gradients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Bahjat Kawar , Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has emerged as a central approach for enhancing semantic alignment in flow-based diffusion models. In this paper, we explore a unified framework called CFG-Ctrl, which reinterprets CFG as a control applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hanyang Wang , Yiyang Liu , Jiawei Chi , Fangfu Liu , Ran Xue , Yueqi Duan

Recently, conditional diffusion models have gained popularity in numerous applications due to their exceptional generation ability. However, many existing methods are training-required. They need to train a time-dependent classifier or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jiwen Yu , Yinhuai Wang , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem , Jian Zhang

Autoregressive (AR) models have emerged as powerful tools for image generation by modeling images as sequences of discrete tokens. While Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has been adopted to improve conditional generation, its application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Dongli Xu , Aleksei Tiulpin , Matthew B. Blaschko

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have recently shown remarkable performance in image generation tasks, which are capable of generating highly realistic images. When adopting DPMs for image restoration tasks, the crucial aspect lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yi Zhang , Xiaoyu Shi , Dasong Li , Xiaogang Wang , Jian Wang , Hongsheng Li

Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) models can generate high-quality samples from a non-informative prior, but they can be slow, often needing hundreds of network evaluations (NFE). To address this, we propose Implicit Dynamical Flow Fusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mohammad R. Rezaei , Milos R. Popovic , Milad Lankarany , Rahul G. Krishnan

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 been applied to improve adversarial robustness of image classifiers by purifying the adversarial noises or generating realistic data for adversarial training. However, diffusion-based purification can be evaded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Huanran Chen , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Xiao Yang , Chengqi Duan , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Generating high-dimensional visual modalities is a computationally intensive task. A common solution is progressive generation, where the outputs are synthesized in a coarse-to-fine spectral autoregressive manner. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Moayed Haji-Ali , Willi Menapace , Ivan Skorokhodov , Arpit Sahni , Sergey Tulyakov , Vicente Ordonez , Aliaksandr Siarohin

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

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

With the rapid development of text-to-vision generation diffusion models, classifier-free guidance has emerged as the most prevalent method for conditioning. However, this approach inherently requires twice as many steps for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Huixuan Zhang , Junzhe Zhang , Xiaojun Wan

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in text-to-image tasks, leading to their widespread use. With the introduction of classifier-free guidance (CFG), the quality of images generated by DMs is significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jiadong Pan , Liang Li , Hongcheng Gao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Qingming Huang , Jiebo Luo

Diffusion models generate synthetic images through an iterative refinement process. However, the misalignment between the simulation-free objective and the iterative process often causes accumulated gradient error along the sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Liangyu Yuan , Yufei Huang , Mingkun Lei , Tong Zhao , Ruoyu Wang , Changxi Chi , Yiwei Wang , Chi Zhang

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a promising technology to enable environment-aware wireless communications and sensing with greatly enhanced performance, by offering location-specific channel prior information for future wireless networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Shen Fu , Yong Zeng , Zijian Wu , Di Wu , Shi Jin , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Xiqi Gao

Climate change necessitates rapid expansion of renewable energy, with wind energy offering a scalable and low-impact solution. However, accurate prediction of wind loads and power generation remains challenging due to uncertainties in wind…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-30 Omar Sallam , Mirjam Fürth
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