arXiv:2607. 15485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Score-based generative models exhibit a puzzling behavior: they often appear to cover all modes of a target multimodal distribution and yet may fail to learn the correct relative mode amplitudes, which can be interpreted as mixture weights.
By Andrew Dennehy, Ramchandran Muthukumar, Rebecca Willett, Nisha Chandramoorthy
The paper introduces Learned End-to-End Guidance Schedules (LEEGS) for diffusion models, which train a time‑dependent guidance schedule to balance data quality and requirement satisfaction while reducing sampling steps. LEEGS minimizes the guidance function over a small set of examples using stochastic gradient descent and employs a gradient approximation to cut training time by a factor of four. Experiments on tasks such as image inpainting, noisy image inverse problems, face‑ID‑guided generation, and PDE problems show that LEEGS outperforms baselines at the same computational budget or matches constant guidance with only 10% of the steps.
By Aneesh Barthakur, Mathias Niepert, Luiz F. O. Chamon
arXiv:2606. 24025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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).
By Haobo Chen, Xiangxiang Xu, Yuheng Bu
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: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:2511.21415v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce DiverseVAR, a framework that enhances the diversity of text-conditioned visual autoregressive models (VAR) at test time without requir...
By Mingue Park, Prin Phunyaphibarn, Phillip Y. Lee, Minhyuk Sung
The paper investigates memorization in diffusion models, showing that the empirical score function is a weighted sum of Gaussian score functions with sharp softmax weights, causing individual training samples to dominate and lead to sampling collapse. By approximating this function with a neural network, the authors obtain a smoother representation that generalizes better. They introduce two techniques—Noise Unconditioning and Temperature Smoothing—to further reduce single‑sample dominance, and demonstrate improved generalization across multiple datasets while preserving generation quality.
By Xinyu Zhou, Jiawei Zhang, Stephen J. Wright
The paper argues that the concrete random noise used in diffusion models is not merely a passive perturbation but a learnable input that can be exploited by the model. By analyzing how clean data and realized noise jointly form the noisy input, the authors show that the model can learn regularities in the data or in the noise structure, and that these two routes can interact. Experiments on MNIST and CIFAR‑10 using pseudorandom streams demonstrate that structured‑noise training can reduce prediction loss, but this advantage disappears when test noise is replaced with IID noise, indicating that the learned dependence is tied to the specific noise structure.
By Shengzhi Deng, Chenqi Ye, Yanze Guo
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.
By Ashwini Pokle, Alexandre Galashov, Arnaud Doucet, Mauricio Delbracio, Valentin De Bortoli
arXiv:2603. 12506v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is primarily driven by Diffusion Models (DM) which rely on random Gaussian noise.
By Joong Ho Kim, Nicholas Thai, Souhardya Saha Dip, Dong Lao, Keith G. Mills
arXiv:2607. 14466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Noise injection is a well-known technique in stochastic optimization.
By Matt L. Wiemann, Peter Melchior, Andrew K. Saydjari
arXiv:2607. 23488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models expose many inference-time sampling parameters, including prompts, negative prompts, classifier-free guidance scales, and noise schedules.
By Arisrei Lim, Yossi Gandelsman