Adversarial Learning of Classifier-Free Guidance Schedules
arXiv:2608. 14038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern text-to-image diffusion models rely on classifier-free guidance (CFG) to achieve high image fidelity and text alignment.
The paper introduces Spectral Correction Guidance, a training‑free method that uses spectral alignment to detect and correct deviations in guided diffusion trajectories. By comparing intermediate states to an analytic reference spectrum, the approach improves consistency with the forward process and enhances image generation quality. Experiments show consistent gains over baseline guidance in text‑to‑image tasks and on ImageNet, with benefits across guidance scales and fewer denoising steps.
arXiv:2608. 14038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern text-to-image diffusion models rely on classifier-free guidance (CFG) to achieve high image fidelity and text alignment.
arXiv:2610.01723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in image synthesis, yet can exhibit memorization by closely reproducing individual tra...
Recent advances in diffusion models and Transformer architectures have led to significant progress in text-to-video generation. However, these models often suffer from semantic errors such as missing...
arXiv:2510. 17136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The generation of high-quality, diverse, and prompt-aligned images is a central goal in image-generating diffusion models.
arXiv:2608. 16513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models and Transformer architectures have led to significant progress in text-to-video generation.
arXiv:2606. 31683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as a dominant paradigm in generative modeling, enabling high-fidelity sampling from complex data distributions.
The paper studies classifier‑free guidance (CFG) in Flow Matching, showing that strong guidance can distort the generated distribution by shifting the mean and concentrating trajectories. By interpreting Flow Matching as a time‑varying gradient flow, the authors explain how CFG reshapes the underlying potential and propose a training‑free method, Posterior‑Mean‑Capped CFG (PMC‑CFG), that adaptively limits guidance to the strongest feasible level. Experiments on synthetic and large‑scale image‑generation tasks demonstrate that PMC‑CFG reduces distortion and concentration while improving the alignment–diversity trade‑off, especially when nominal guidance is large.
arXiv:2602. 20360v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flow-based generative methods offer a simple and effective framework for high-fidelity generation, yet pretrained flow models are rarely used in their vanilla conditional form: in image generation, samples without guidance often appear diffuse and lack fine-grained detail.
Diffusion models have achieved strong performance in image, text-to-image, and video generation, where conditional generation is often controlled by classifier-free guidance (CFG). CFG improves condition consistency by increasing a guidance weight, but stronger guidance typically reduces diversity and distributional coverage.
arXiv:2607. 14580v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a novel system that integrates negative prompt optimization via a fine-tuned sequence-to-sequence LLM and latent-space classifier guidance to improve the quality of images generated by Stable Diffusion.
The paper introduces an adaptive step schedule controller for text‑to‑image diffusion models, allowing the number of denoising steps to vary based on the complexity of the input prompt. By mixing step schedules of different sizes and monitoring error discrepancies at each timestep, the method switches schedules to maintain image quality while reducing inference time. Experiments on COCO and DiffusionDB demonstrate that this approach achieves faster generation without sacrificing visual fidelity.
arXiv:2607. 09133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large-scale text-to-image generative models have achieved unprecedented visual performance, their inherent reliance on multi-step iterative solvers incurs severe inference latency.