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Understanding foggy image sequence in the driving scenes is critical for autonomous driving, but it remains a challenging task due to the difficulty in collecting and annotating real-world images of adverse weather. Recently, the…

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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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Artifact-free super-resolution (SR) aims to translate low-resolution images into their high-resolution counterparts with a strict integrity of the original content, eliminating any distortions or synthetic details. While traditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Qingping Zheng , Ling Zheng , Yuanfan Guo , Ying Li , Songcen Xu , Jiankang Deng , Hang Xu

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a critical technique for enhancing the sample quality of visual generative models. However, in autoregressive (AR) multi-modal generation, CFG introduces design inconsistencies between language and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Huayu Chen , Hang Su , Peize Sun , Jun Zhu

High-fidelity text-to-image and text-to-video generation typically relies on Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), but achieving optimal results often demands computationally expensive sampling schedules. In this work, we propose MAMBO-G, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shangwen Zhu , Qianyu Peng , Zhilei Shu , Yuting Hu , Zhantao Yang , Han Zhang , Zhao Pu , Andy Zheng , Xinyu Cui , Jian Zhao , Ruili Feng , Fan Cheng

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success as generative models. However, even a well-trained model can accumulate errors throughout the generation process. These errors become particularly problematic when arbitrary guidance is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Youngrok Park , Hojung Jung , Sangmin Bae , Se-Young Yun

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

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is essential for integrating thermal saliency with textural details to support downstream perception. However, most existing approaches suffer from "semantic blindness," leading to the erroneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaoyang Zhang , jinjiang Li , Guodong Fan , Yakun Ju , Linwei Fan , Jun Liu , Alex C. Kot

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has become an essential component of modern diffusion models to enhance both generation quality and alignment with input conditions. However, CFG requires specific training procedures and is limited to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Javad Rajabi , Soroush Mehraban , Seyedmorteza Sadat , Babak Taati

High-resolution image synthesis with diffusion models often suffers from energy instabilities and guidance artifacts that degrade visual quality. We analyze the latent energy landscape during sampling and propose adaptive classifier-free…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ankit Sanjyal

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models generate images through next-scale prediction, naturally achieving coarse-to-fine, fast, high-fidelity synthesis mirroring human perception. In practice, this hierarchy can drift at inference time, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Youngwoo Shin , Jiwan Hur , Junmo Kim

Surface electromyography (sEMG)-based gesture recognition plays a critical role in human-machine interaction (HMI), particularly for rehabilitation and prosthetic control. However, sEMG-based systems often suffer from the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Chen Liu , Can Han , Weishi Xu , Yaqi Wang , Dahong Qian

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

We study masked discrete diffusion models with classifier-free guidance (CFG). Assuming no score error nor discretization error, we derive an explicit solution to the guided reverse dynamics, so that how guidance influences the sampling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 He Ye , Rojas Kevin , Tao Molei

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

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

Diffusion-based editing models have emerged as a powerful tool for semantic image and video manipulation. However, existing models lack a mechanism for smoothly controlling the intensity of text-guided edits. In standard text-conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alon Wolf , Chen Katzir , Kfir Aberman , Or Patashnik

Diffusion models have emerged as the dominant paradigm for high-quality image generation, yet their computational expense remains substantial due to iterative denoising. Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) significantly enhances generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ruitong Sun , Tianze Yang , Wei Niu , Jin Sun

Diffusion-based Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) approaches achieve impressive results on frequent, in-vocabulary words observed at training time and on regular styles. However, they are prone to memorizing training samples and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Konstantina Nikolaidou , George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Silvia Cascianelli , Rita Cucchiara , Marcus Liwicki

Generative diffusion models show promise for data augmentation. However, applying them to fine-grained tasks presents a significant challenge: ensuring synthetic images accurately capture the subtle, category-defining features critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhiguang Lu , Qianqian Xu , Peisong Wen , Siran Dai , Qingming Huang