arXiv AI By Bingnan Li, Haozhe Wang, Haozhong Xiong, Fangtai Wu, Jinpeng Yu, Yang Shi, Jiaming Liu, Ruihua Huang

Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance in On-Policy Diffusion Distillation

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arXiv:2607. 24731v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) adapts diffusion models by querying a teacher along trajectories generated by the current student, but how it should behave under classifier-free guidance (CFG), a default component of modern diffusion systems, remains poorly understood.

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