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Given an unconditional diffusion model and a predictor for a target property of interest (e.g., a classifier), the goal of training-free guidance is to generate samples with desirable target properties without additional training. Existing…

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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…

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Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing. Many existing approaches rely on text prompts as editing guidance. However, these methods are constrained by the need for manual…

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Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) improves sample quality in diffusion models, but its dual-pass inference and reliance on null-condition training limit its use in few-step regimes. Attention-space guidance has emerged as a complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kwanyoung Kim

Diffusion models achieve strong performance in generative modeling, but their success often relies heavily on classifier-free guidance (CFG), an inference-time heuristic that modifies the sampling trajectory. In theory, diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xiang Li , Yixuan Jia , Xiao Li , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Rongrong Wang , Qing Qu

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have attracted attention for their exceptional generation quality and diversity. This success is largely attributed to the use of class- or text-conditional diffusion guidance methods, such as classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Susung Hong , Gyuseong Lee , Wooseok Jang , Seungryong Kim

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in class-to-image generation. However, we observe that despite impressive FID scores, state-of-the-art models often generate distorted or low-quality images, especially in certain classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jie Shao , Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Guo-hua Wang , Jianxin Wu

Controllable image synthesis models allow creation of diverse images based on text instructions or guidance from a reference image. Recently, denoising diffusion probabilistic models have been shown to generate more realistic imagery than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xihui Liu , Dong Huk Park , Samaneh Azadi , Gong Zhang , Arman Chopikyan , Yuxiao Hu , Humphrey Shi , Anna Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality samples and enhancing performance across diverse domains through Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, the quality of generated samples is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ao Chen , Lihe Ding , Tianfan Xue

This research focuses on the development and enhancement of text-to-image denoising diffusion models, addressing key challenges such as limited sample diversity and training instability. By incorporating Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Rajdeep Roshan Sahu

With the rapid development of conditional diffusion models, significant progress has been made in text-to-video generation. However, we observe that these models often neglect semantically important tokens during inference, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Guoqing Zhang , Lu Shi , Wanru Xu , Linna Zhang , Sen Wang , Fangfang Wang , Yigang Cen

The primary axes of interest in image-generating diffusion models are image quality, the amount of variation in the results, and how well the results align with a given condition, e.g., a class label or a text prompt. The popular…

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Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art image generation. However, the random Gaussian noise used to start the diffusion process influences the final output, causing variations in image quality and prompt adherence. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Harvey Mannering , Zhiwu Huang , Adam Prugel-Bennett

Classifier-free guidance is a key component for enhancing the performance of conditional generative models across diverse tasks. While it has previously demonstrated remarkable improvements for the sample quality, it has only been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Qinqing Zheng , Matt Le , Neta Shaul , Yaron Lipman , Aditya Grover , Ricky T. Q. Chen

Training-free diffusion guidance offers a flexible framework for leveraging off-the-shelf classifiers without additional training. Yet, current approaches hinge on posterior approximations via Tweedie's formula, which often yield unreliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Van Khoa Nguyen , Lionel Blondé , Alexandros Kalousis

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

Text-to-3D generation has made remarkable progress recently, particularly with methods based on Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) that leverages pre-trained 2D diffusion models. While the usage of classifier-free guidance is well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xin Yu , Yuan-Chen Guo , Yangguang Li , Ding Liang , Song-Hai Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi

Autoregressive (AR) models based on next-scale prediction are rapidly emerging as a powerful tool for image generation, but they face a critical weakness: information inconsistencies between patches across timesteps introduced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ky Dan Nguyen , Hoang Lam Tran , Anh-Dung Dinh , Daochang Liu , Weidong Cai , Xiuying Wang , Chang Xu

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

Text-conditioned image generation has made significant progress in recent years with generative adversarial networks and more recently, diffusion models. While diffusion models conditioned on text prompts have produced impressive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Azade Farshad , Yousef Yeganeh , Yu Chi , Chengzhi Shen , Björn Ommer , Nassir Navab
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