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:2601. 23231v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Flow-based generative models provide strong unconditional priors for inverse problems, but guiding their dynamics for conditional generation remains challenging.
By George Webber, Alexander Denker, Riccardo Barbano, Andrew J Reader
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:2604. 27147v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In generative modeling, we often wish to produce samples that maximize a user-specified reward such as aesthetic quality or alignment with human preferences, a problem known as \textit{guidance}.
By Jerry Y. Huang, Justin Lin, Sheel Shah, Kartik Nair, Nicholas M. Boffi
arXiv:2606. 06303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controllable generation with discrete diffusion models is often hindered by high computational overhead or the need for retraining.
By Hongkun Dou, Zike Chen, Fengji Li, Hongjue Li, Yue Deng
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.
By Enhao Gu, Haolin Hou