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: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
Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the default mechanism for conditional generation in diffusion models, but the distribution sampled by its deterministic guided dynamics is not captured by the usual product-distribution heuristic $p_0^ωq_0^{1-ω}$. We analyze CFG through the probability flow ODE and derive exact analytic path-integral representations of the induced distributions for both constant and time-dependent guidance.
arXiv:2607. 19725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the default mechanism for conditional generation in diffusion models, but the distribution sampled by its deterministic guided dynamics is not captured by the usual product-distribution heuristic $p_0^\omega q_0^{1-\omega}$.
By Enze Jiang, Zheng Ma
arXiv:2606. 27696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we are the first to examine the correlations between class frequency and the multi-scale noise schedule within diffusion models.
By Jiequan Cui, Beier Zhu, Qingshan Xu, Xiaojuan Qi, Bei Yu, Hanwang Zhang
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