arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

CARE: Condition-Aware Representation Regularization for Diffusion Models

The paper introduces CARE, a lightweight, plug‑and‑play regularization framework for diffusion models that dynamically adjusts feature distributions based on condition similarity. By leveraging built‑in conditioning signals such as labels or text prompts, CARE promotes tighter feature clusters for similar conditions without requiring explicit alignment losses or external supervision. Empirical results show consistent improvements in visual fidelity and convergence stability, achieving significant FID reductions and speed‑ups on ImageNet and text‑to‑image tasks, and it can be combined with existing regularization methods for further gains.

By Fengjia Guo, Zhuoyi Yang, Jie Tang
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Rethinking Visual Autoregressive Sampling with Information-Grounding Guidance

arXiv:2509. 23876v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) models based on next-scale prediction have emerged as a powerful tool for image generation, but they face a critical weakness: information inconsistencies between patches across timesteps introduced by progressive resolution scaling.

By Ky Dan Nguyen, Hoang Lam Tran, Anh-Dung Dinh, Daochang Liu, Weidong Cai, Xiuying Wang, Chang Xu