arXiv AI

D2PO: Optimizing Diffusion Samplers via Dynamic Preference

arXiv:2607. 06609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose D2PO (Dynamic Direct Preference Optimization), a principled framework for optimizing diffusion sampling policies with respect to timestep schedules and classifier-free guidance (CFG) weights.

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Jul 26

Learning Sampling Parameters for Diffusion Models

Text-to-image diffusion models expose many inference-time sampling parameters, including prompts, negative prompts, classifier-free guidance scales, and noise schedules. These parameters are typically manually chosen once and then held fixed across prompts and denoising timesteps, even though different prompts and stages of generation can benefit from different parameter values.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

Efficient Weighted Sampling via Score-based Generative Models

arXiv:2502. 04646v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weighted sampling -- sampling from a probability density function (PDF) proportional to the product of a base PDF and a weight function -- is a fundamental technique with wide-ranging applications in variance reduction, biased sampling, data augmentation, and more.

By Heasung Kim, Taekyun Lee, Hyeji Kim, Gustavo de Veciana
arXiv AI
Jun 10

MMD Guidance: Training-Free Distribution Adaptation for Diffusion Models via Maximum Mean Discrepancy Guidance

arXiv:2601. 08379v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pre-trained diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for both unconditional and conditional sample generation, yet their outputs often deviate from the characteristics of user-specific target data.

By Matina Mahdizadeh Sani, Nima Jamali, Mohammad Jalali, Farzan Farnia
arXiv AI
Jun 2

DASH: Dual-Branch Score Distillation for Guidance-Calibrated Compact Diffusion Models

arXiv:2606. 00798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter compression of class-conditional diffusion models reveals an underexplored limitation in output-level distillation: the unconditional score branch remains unsupervised, leaving the classifier-free guidance gap underdetermined in the student.

By Abdullah Al Shafi, Kazi Saeed Alam, Sk Imran Hossain, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

Latent Reward Registers for Diffusion Preference Alignment

arXiv:2608. 03929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning diffusion models with human preferences usually relies on a sparse terminal reward evaluated on the final generated samples, presenting a severe temporal credit-assignment challenge across the multi-step denoising process.

By Yuanshen Guan, Zipeng Feng, Zhiwei Xiong, Peiqin Sun