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Joint Branch-Space Transform Coding for Diffusion Activation Quantization with Classifier-Free Guidance
Oct 1, 2026Mingrun Jiang, Yuejia Liu, Zishan Shao +11Diffusion Transformers Classifier-Free Guidance
Duke University · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Florida +2
RA-CFGCache: From Branch-Level Criteria to Guided-Risk Control under Classifier-Free Guidance
Sep 29, 2026Yiming Liu, Ben Wan, Tongxuan Liu +5Classifier-Free Guidance Cache
School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · JD.com, Beijing, China
Attention-Scoped Guidance: Training-Free Spatial Control for Image Editing
Sep 28, 2026Zeyan Li, Wei Zhou, Hadi Amirpour +3Image Editing Classifier-Free Guidance
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Cardiff University · University of Klagenfurt +1
SAGE: Subspace Alignment for Classifier-Free Guidance in Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Models
Sep 28, 2026Boyu Zhang, Yangming Cheng, Ning Zhang +5Classifier-Free Guidance Generative Models
Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group
Learnable Classifier-Free Guidance Null Embeddings for Enhanced Controllable Speech Synthesis
Sep 21, 2026Biel Tura Vecino, Yoach Lacombe, Julian Weber +4Speech Synthesis Classifier-Free Guidance
Cantina Labs
Classifier-Free Guidance in Flow Matching: Non-Autonomous Potentials, Overshoot, and Posterior-Mean Control
Sep 21, 2026Jishen Peng, Zheng MaClassifier-Free Guidance Wasserstein Gradient Flows
School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Institute of Natural Sciences, MOE-LSC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Qing Yuan Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China +1
Commitment Before Realization: When Classifier-Free Guidance Becomes Unnecessary in Masked Diffusion Language Models
Aug 8, 2026Fan Zhou, Weitian Wang, Tim Van de CruysClassifier-Free Guidance Masked Diffusion Language Models
KU Leuven, Belgium · Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Latent-Centroid Steering: Single-Pass Classifier-Free Guidance for Command-Aligned Autonomous Driving
Jul 31, 2026Meibo Hu, Jiamian Wang, Pichao Wang +1Autonomous Driving Steering
Rochester Institute of Technology · NVIDIA
Improving scDiffusion with Sparsity-Biased Classifier-Free Guidance
Jul 31, 2026Yu Song, Hao Sun, Ikuko Nishikawa +1Classifier-Free Guidance Single-Cell Rna
College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan
Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance in On-Policy Diffusion Distillation
Jul 27, 2026Bingnan Li, Haozhe Wang, Haozhong Xiong +5Classifier-Free Guidance Positive
Qwen Business Unit of Alibaba
Learning Sampling Parameters for Diffusion Models
Jul 26, 2026Arisrei Lim, Yossi GandelsmanDiffusion Models Adaptive Sampling
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Analytic Distribution of Classifier-Free Guidance for Schedule Design
Jul 22, 2026Enze Jiang, Zheng MaClassifier-Free Guidance Distributions
School of Mathematical Sciences Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China
IB-Flow: Information Bottleneck-Guided CFG Distillation for Few-Step Text-to-Image Generation
Jul 10, 2026Yiting Wang, Jingyi Zhang, Wenhu Zhang +4Classifier-Free Guidance Few-Step Distillation
Tsinghua University · Wan Team, Alibaba Group · HKUST +1
Closing the Null Space: Guidance-Aware Quantization for Classifier-Free Diffusion
Jul 9, 2026Abdullah Al Shafi, Sumaiya Rahim SumaClassifier-Free Guidance Post-Training Quantization
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Khulna University of Engineering & Technology Khulna-9203, Bangladesh
Guidance Breaks the Fitted Operator: A Terminal-Fitted Repair for Classifier-Free Guidance
Jul 8, 2026Shiheng ZhangClassifier-Free Guidance Guidance
University of Washington
Not All Prediction Targets Keep Training-Free Diffusion Guidance on the Manifold
Jul 1, 2026Yunsung Lee, Hyeongmin LeeClassifier-Free Guidance Diffusion Models
MAUM.AI, Republic of Korea · Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Joint Residual Reweighting for Classifier Free Guidance in Flow-Matching Zero-Shot TTS
Jun 24, 2026Runwu Shi, Yujin Wang, Hongjin Song +8Flow-Matching Text-To-Speech Classifier-Free Guidance
Institute of Science Tokyo · Wuhan University · Beijing Institute of Technology +1
Information-Theoretic Classifier-Free Guidance with Adaptive Schedule Optimization
Jun 23, 2026Haobo Chen, Xiangxiang Xu, Yuheng BuClassifier-Free Guidance Diffusion Models
Department of Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara · Department of Computer Science University of Rochester
Probability-Conserving Flow Guidance
May 19, 2026Parsa Esmati, Junha Hyung, Amirhossein Dadashzadeh +2Classifier-Free Guidance Generative Flow Networks
University of Bristol · KAIST
VAGS: Velocity Adaptive Guidance Scale for Image Editing and Generation
May 15, 2026Yan Luo, Ahmadou Aidara, Jingyi Lu +3Classifier-Free Guidance Diffusion-Based Image Editing
Harvard AI and Robotics Lab, Harvard University · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong · Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Harvard University
Margin-calibrated Classifier Guidance for Property-driven Synthesis Planning
May 13, 2026Najwa Laabid, Vikas GargSynthesis Classifier-Free Guidance
Department of Computer Science Aalto University · YaiYai Ltd
Guidance Is Not a Hyperparameter: Learning Dynamic Control in Diffusion Language Models
May 8, 2026Fan Zhou, Tim Van de CruysClassifier-Free Guidance Reward Gradients
KU Leuven
P-Guide: Parameter-Efficient Prior Steering for Single-Pass CFG Inference
May 7, 2026Xin Peng, Ang GaoClassifier-Free Guidance Generative Flow Networks
School of Physical Science and Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
Diagnosing CFG Interpretation in LLMs
Apr 22, 2026Hanqi Li, Lu Chen, Kai YuLarge Language Models Fail In-Context
1X-LANCE Lab, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · 3Shanghai Innovation Institution, Shanghai, China · 4Jiangsu Key Lab of Language Computing, Suzhou, China +2
Reward Weighted Classifier-Free Guidance as Policy Improvement in Autoregressive Models
Apr 16, 2026Alexander Peysakhovich, William BermanClassifier-Free Guidance Autoregressive Model
∗Sutter Hill Ventures · †Sutter Hill Ventures
Momentum Guidance: Plug-and-Play Guidance for Flow Models
Feb 23, 2026Runlong Liao, Jian Yu, Baiyu Su +3Flow Models Classifier-Free Guidance
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
EMAG: Self-Rectifying Diffusion Sampling with Exponential Moving Average Guidance
Dec 19, 2025Ankit Yadav, Ta Duc Huy, Lingqiao LiuClassifier-Free Guidance Diffusion Sampling
Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University, Australia
Evolutionary Guided Decoding: Iterative Value Refinement for LLMs
Mar 4, 2025Zhenhua Liu, Lijun Li, Ruizhe Chen +5Large Language Model Alignment Classifier-Free Guidance
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Soochow University · Zhejiang University +1
DICE: Distilling Classifier-Free Guidance into Text Embeddings
Feb 6, 2025Zhenyu Zhou, Defang Chen, Can Wang +2Text-To-Image Diffusion Models Multi-Reference Image Generation
Zhejiang University, State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security · University at Buffalo, State University of New York
ContrastiveCFG: Guiding Diffusion Sampling by Contrasting Positive and Negative Concepts
Nov 26, 2024Jinho Chang, Changsun Lee, Hyungjin Chung +1Classifier-Free Guidance Text-Conditioned Diffusion Model
Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea · EverEx, Seoul, South Korea

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Joint Branch-Space Transform Coding for Diffusion Activation Quantization with Classifier-Free Guidance

Mingrun Jiang, Yuejia Liu, Zishan Shao, Ting Jiang+10

Duke University · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Florida+2

Diffusion Transformers Classifier-Free Guidance Fidelity

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Post-training quantization for diffusion models increasingly exploits timestep, feature, and layer structure. While recent work has begun incorporating CFG structure into diffusion quantization, activation quantization still operates independently across conditional and unconditional coordinates, leaving cross-activation structure unexploited. We show that matched CFG activations form a strongly correlated two-dimensional source and that, under a fixed bit budget, the choice of branch coding basis materially affects quantization fidelity. Motivated by this observation, we introduce branch-space transform coding, which rotates matched CFG branches via an offline derived 2x2 orthogonal matrix, requiring minimal modifications to model parameters or the quantization pipeline. We further derive the Guidance-Correlation Branch Transform (GCBT), which jointly incorporates the CFG guidance direction and cross-branch second moments. Under an equal-rate quantization-noise surrogate, GCBT admits a closed-form per-layer solution without gradient optimization or angle search. Applied on top of existing diffusion PTQ methods, GCBT yields statistically significant fidelity gains in most evaluated comparisons with no statistically significant degradation, while leaving the underlying host quantization pipeline unchanged.

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