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Typical diffusion models are trained to accept a particular form of conditioning, most commonly text, and cannot be conditioned on other modalities without retraining. In this work, we propose a universal guidance algorithm that enables…

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The design of diffusion-based audio generation systems has been investigated from diverse perspectives, such as data space, network architecture, and conditioning techniques, while most of these innovations require model re-training. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Junyou Wang , Zehua Chen , Binjie Yuan , Kaiwen Zheng , Chang Li , Yuxuan Jiang , Jun Zhu

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely adopted technique in diffusion and flow-based generative models, enabling high-quality conditional generation. A key theoretical challenge is characterizing the distribution induced by CFG,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Krunoslav Lehman Pavasovic , Jakob Verbeek , Giulio Biroli , Marc Mezard

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

Text-guided image editing has recently experienced rapid development. However, simultaneously performing multiple editing actions on a single image, such as background replacement and specific subject attribute changes, while maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Pengzhi Li , QInxuan Huang , Yikang Ding , Zhiheng Li

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a cornerstone of text-to-image diffusion models, yet its effectiveness is limited by the use of static guidance scales. This "one-size-fits-all" approach fails to adapt to the diverse requirements of…

We introduce InstructVid2Vid, an end-to-end diffusion-based methodology for video editing guided by human language instructions. Our approach empowers video manipulation guided by natural language directives, eliminating the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Bosheng Qin , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Tat-Seng Chua , Yueting Zhuang

With the great success of text-conditioned diffusion models in creative text-to-image generation, various text-driven image editing approaches have attracted the attentions of many researchers. However, previous works mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhiyuan Ma , Guoli Jia , Bowen Zhou

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the workhorse for steering large diffusion models toward text-conditioned targets, yet its native application to rectified flow (RF) based models provokes severe off-manifold drift, yielding visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shreshth Saini , Shashank Gupta , Alan C. Bovik

We present a training-free framework for continuous and controllable image editing at test time for text-conditioned generative models. In contrast to prior approaches that rely on additional training or manual user intervention, we find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yigit Ekin , Yossi Gandelsman

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a cornerstone of modern conditional diffusion models, yet its reliance on the fixed or heuristic dynamic guidance weight is predominantly empirical and overlooks the inherent dynamics of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jiayang Gao , Tianyi Zheng , Jiayang Zou , Fengxiang Yang , Shice Liu , Luyao Fan , Zheyu Zhang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Peng-Tao Jiang , Bo Li , Jia Wang

Text-to-image diffusion models can generate diverse, high-fidelity images based on user-provided text prompts. Recent research has extended these models to support text-guided image editing. While text guidance is an intuitive editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jooyoung Choi , Yunjey Choi , Yunji Kim , Junho Kim , Sungroh Yoon

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…

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Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the primary control over how strongly text semantics move a flow-based sampler, yet standard practice holds its scale fixed across the entire ODE trajectory. This is a fundamental mismatch: early steps are…

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Generating stylistic text with specific attributes is a key problem in controllable text generation. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for both visual and textual generation. Existing approaches can be broadly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Fan Zhou , Chang Tian , Tim Van de Cruys

Recent advances in diffusion models enable many powerful instruments for image editing. One of these instruments is text-driven image manipulations: editing semantic attributes of an image according to the provided text description. %…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Nikita Starodubcev , Dmitry Baranchuk , Valentin Khrulkov , Artem Babenko

Text-driven video editing aims to modify video content based on natural language instructions. While recent training-free methods have leveraged pretrained diffusion models, they often rely on an inversion-editing paradigm. This paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Guangzhao Li , Yanming Yang , Chenxi Song , Chi Zhang

Recently, text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable advancements, particularly with diffusion models facilitating high-quality image synthesis from textual descriptions. However, these models often struggle with achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Lunhao Duan , Shanshan Zhao , Wenjun Yan , Yinglun Li , Qing-Guo Chen , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , Mingming Gong , Gui-Song Xia

Image diffusion models, trained on massive image collections, have emerged as the most versatile image generator model in terms of quality and diversity. They support inverting real images and conditional (e.g., text) generation, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Duygu Ceylan , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Niloy J. Mitra

We investigate the theoretical foundations of classifier-free guidance (CFG). CFG is the dominant method of conditional sampling for text-to-image diffusion models, yet unlike other aspects of diffusion, it remains on shaky theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Arwen Bradley , Preetum Nakkiran