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Diffusion models have achieved impressive generative quality across modalities like 2D images, videos, and 3D shapes, but their inference remains computationally expensive due to the iterative denoising process. While recent caching-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mengyu Yang , Yanming Yang , Chenyi Xu , Chenxi Song , Yufan Zuo , Tong Zhao , Ruibo Li , Chi Zhang

Video Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models are a dominant approach for high-quality video generation but suffer from high inference cost due to iterative denoising. Existing caching approaches primarily exploit similarity within the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hao Liu , Ye Huang , Chenghuan Huang , Zhenyi Zheng , Jiangsu Du , Ziyang Ma , Jing Lyu , Yutong Lu

Diffusion models have shown exceptional performance in visual generation tasks. Recently, these models have shifted from traditional U-Shaped CNN-Attention hybrid structures to fully transformer-based isotropic architectures. While these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuchuan Tian , Jing Han , Chengcheng Wang , Yuchen Liang , Chao Xu , Hanting Chen

Recent advances in one-step generative frameworks, such as flow map models, have significantly improved the efficiency of image generation by learning direct noise-to-data mappings in a single forward pass. However, machine unlearning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hyundo Choi , Junhyeong An , Jinseong Park , Jaewoong Choi

Diffusion Transformers rely on static patchify tokenization, assigning the same token budget to smooth backgrounds, detailed object regions, noisy early timesteps, and late-stage refinements. We introduce the Dynamic Chunking Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Akash Haridas , Utkarsh Saxena , Parsa Ashrafi Fashi , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Vikram Appia , Emad Barsoum

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) succeeds in condition diffusion models that use a guidance scale to balance the influence of conditional and unconditional terms. A high guidance scale is used to enhance the performance of the conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai

Diffusion Transformers offer state-of-the-art fidelity in image and video synthesis, but their iterative sampling process remains a major bottleneck due to the high cost of transformer forward passes at each timestep. To mitigate this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shikang Zheng , Guantao Chen , Qinming Zhou , Yuqi Lin , Lixuan He , Chang Zou , Peiliang Cai , Jiacheng Liu , Linfeng Zhang

We introduce DiffAug, a simple and efficient diffusion-based augmentation technique to train image classifiers for the crucial yet challenging goal of improved classifier robustness. Applying DiffAug to a given example consists of one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Chandramouli Sastry , Sri Harsha Dumpala , Sageev Oore

Diffusion models have emerged as a pivotal advancement in generative models, setting new standards to the quality of the generated instances. In the current paper we aim to underscore a discrepancy between conventional training methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Niket Patel , Luis Salamanca , Luis Barba

Diffusion models have revolutionized high-fidelity image and video synthesis, yet their computational demands remain prohibitive for real-time applications. These models face two fundamental challenges: strict temporal dependencies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiacheng Liu , Chang Zou , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Fei Ren , Shaobo Wang , Kaixin Li , Linfeng Zhang

Transfer learning of diffusion models to smaller target domains is challenging, as naively fine-tuning the model often results in poor generalization. Test-time guidance methods help mitigate this by offering controllable improvements in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yara Bahram , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Eric Granger

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a core technique powering state-of-the-art image generation systems, yet its underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, we begin by analyzing CFG in a simplified linear diffusion model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiang Li , Rongrong Wang , Qing Qu

Flow-based generative models have become a strong framework for high-quality generative modeling, yet pretrained models are rarely used in their vanilla conditional form: conditional samples without guidance often appear diffuse and lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Runlong Liao , Jian Yu , Baiyu Su , Chi Zhang , Lizhang Chen , Qiang Liu

Guidance techniques are commonly used in diffusion and flow models to improve image quality and input consistency for conditional generative tasks such as class-conditional and text-to-image generation. In particular, classifier-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tariq Berrada Ifriqi , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek , Karteek Alahari

While Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has become standard for improving sample fidelity in conditional diffusion models, it can harm diversity and induce memorization by applying constant guidance regardless of whether a particular sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Felix Koulischer , Florian Handke , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Luca Ambrogioni

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the de facto standard for conditional sampling in diffusion models, yet it often reduces sample diversity. Using tools from statistical physics, we analyze the emergence of generative distortions induced by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-11 Enrico Ventura , Beatrice Achilli , Luca Ambrogioni , Carlo Lucibello

Transformer-based diffusion models offer superior scalability and performance but suffer from high computational overhead due to the iterative nature and quadratic complexity of self-attention at high resolutions. In this paper, we propose…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jieon Yoon , Hangyeol Lee , Jaehoon Heo , Joo-Young Kim

Point clouds are crucial for capturing three-dimensional data but often suffer from incompleteness due to limitations such as resolution and occlusion. Traditional methods typically rely on point-based approaches within discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Guoqing Zhang , Jian Liu

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has become the standard method for enhancing the quality of conditional diffusion models. However, employing CFG requires either training an unconditional model alongside the main diffusion model or modifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Manuel Kansy , Otmar Hilliges , Romann M. Weber

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