arXiv AI

Correcting Guided Diffusion Trajectories with Spectral 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 AI
Jul 1

Histogram-constrained Image 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.

By Haoming Liu, Yuanhe Guo, Yijia Cao, Shenji Wan, Hongyi Wen
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

Classifier-Free Guidance in Flow Matching: Non-Autonomous Potentials, Overshoot, and Posterior-Mean Control

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.

By Jishen Peng, Zheng Ma
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Momentum Guidance: Plug-and-Play Guidance for Flow Models

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.

By Runlong Liao, Jian Yu, Baiyu Su, Chi Zhang, Lizhang Chen, Qiang Liu
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Efficient Text-to-Image Generation: An Adaptive Step Schedule Controller for Diffusion Models

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.

By Kuluhan Binici, Cihan Acar, Shivam Aggarwal, Siying Liu, Tulika Mitra