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Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is an essential component of text-to-image diffusion models, and understanding and advancing its operational mechanisms remains a central focus of research. Existing approaches stem from divergent theoretical…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2025-10-27 Kaibo Wang , Jianda Mao , Tong Wu , Yang Xiang

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is widely used to improve conditional fidelity in diffusion models, but its impact on sampling dynamics remains poorly understood. Prior studies, often restricted to unimodal conditional distributions or…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2026-02-19 Cheng Jin , Qitan Shi , Yuantao Gu

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has emerged as a pivotal advancement in text-to-image latent diffusion models, establishing itself as a cornerstone technique for achieving high-quality image synthesis. However, under high guidance weights,…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2025-06-26 Cheng Jin , Zhenyu Xiao , Chutao Liu , Yuantao Gu

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…

机器学习 · 统计学 2026-05-11 Enrico Ventura , Beatrice Achilli , Luca Ambrogioni , Carlo Lucibello

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a fundamental technique in training conditional diffusion models. The common practice for CFG-based training is to use a single network to learn both conditional and unconditional noise prediction, with a…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2026-02-11 Prin Phunyaphibarn , Phillip Y. Lee , Jaihoon Kim , Minhyuk Sung

As Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has proven effective in conditional diffusion model sampling for improved condition alignment, many applications use a negated CFG term to filter out unwanted features from samples. However, simply negating…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2024-11-27 Jinho Chang , Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) enhances the quality and condition adherence of text-to-image diffusion models. It operates by combining the conditional and unconditional predictions using a fixed weight. However, recent works vary the…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2025-01-23 Xi Wang , Nicolas Dufour , Nefeli Andreou , Marie-Paule Cani , Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , David Picard , Vicky Kalogeiton

Image generation using diffusion models have demonstrated outstanding learning capabilities, effectively capturing the full distribution of the training dataset. They are known to generate wide variations in sampled images, albeit with a…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2024-11-26 Rahul Shenoy , Zhihong Pan , Kaushik Balakrishnan , Qisen Cheng , Yongmoon Jeon , Heejune Yang , Jaewon Kim

Classifier guidance is a recently introduced method to trade off mode coverage and sample fidelity in conditional diffusion models post training, in the same spirit as low temperature sampling or truncation in other types of generative…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2022-07-27 Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans

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…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2025-10-10 Shreshth Saini , Shashank Gupta , Alan C. Bovik

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has helped diffusion models achieve great conditional generation in various fields. Recently, more diffusion guidance methods have emerged with improved generation quality and human preference. However, can…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2026-02-27 Dian Xie , Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Zikai Zhou , Bojun Cheng , Shuo Yang , Jun Wu , Zeke Xie

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) significantly enhances controllability in generative models by interpolating conditional and unconditional predictions. However, standard CFG often employs a static unconditional input, which can be suboptimal…

计算与语言 · 计算机科学 2025-05-27 Pengxiang Li , Shilin Yan , Joey Tsai , Renrui Zhang , Ruichuan An , Ziyu Guo , Xiaowei Gao

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has been widely used in text-to-image diffusion models, where the CFG scale is introduced to control the strength of text guidance on the whole image space. However, we argue that a global CFG scale results in…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2024-04-09 Dazhong Shen , Guanglu Song , Zeyue Xue , Fu-Yun Wang , Yu Liu

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used mechanism for controlling diffusion-based generative models, yet its guidance scale is typically treated as a fixed hyperparameter throughout generation. This static design yields a suboptimal…

计算与语言 · 计算机科学 2026-05-11 Fan Zhou , Tim Van de Cruys

Current sampling mechanisms for conditional diffusion models rely mainly on Classifier Free Guidance (CFG) to generate high-quality images. However, CFG requires several denoising passes in each time step, e.g., up to three passes in image…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2025-03-25 Mehdi Noroozi , Alberto Gil Ramos , Luca Morreale , Ruchika Chavhan , Malcolm Chadwick , Abhinav Mehrotra , Sourav Bhattacharya

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely adopted technique in diffusion/flow models to improve image fidelity and controllability. In this work, we first analytically study the effect of CFG on flow matching models trained on Gaussian…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2025-04-04 Weichen Fan , Amber Yijia Zheng , Raymond A. Yeh , Ziwei Liu

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is widely used in diffusion models but often introduces over-contrast and over-saturation artifacts at higher guidance strengths. We present EP-CFG (Energy-Preserving Classifier-Free Guidance), which addresses…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2024-12-16 Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan , Sai Bi , Jianming Zhang

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…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2026-05-20 Parsa Esmati , Junha Hyung , Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Jaegul Choo , Majid Mirmehdi

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has become an essential component of modern conditional diffusion models. Although highly effective in practice, the underlying mechanisms by which CFG enhances quality, detail, and prompt alignment are not…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2025-06-25 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Tobias Vontobel , Farnood Salehi , Romann M. Weber

Text-to-image diffusion models are capable of generating high-quality images, but suboptimal pre-trained text representations often result in these images failing to align closely with the given text prompts. Classifier-free guidance (CFG)…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2025-11-25 Zhenyu Zhou , Defang Chen , Can Wang , Chun Chen , Siwei Lyu