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  1. Anatomy-preserving unpaired cone-beam CT refinement for image-guided radiotherapy using pseudo-label guided diffusion

    Oct 5, 2026Qi Lai, Yutong HeCone-Beam CTDiffusion Guidance

    Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055,China. · Southern university of science and technology, Shenzhen, 518055,China.

  2. Best-of-NN Guidance for Test-time Diffusion Alignment

    Oct 4, 2026Richard Lee Kim, Yeongmin Kim, Gyuwon Sim +3Diffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Model Guidance

    KAIST

  3. ODDR: One-Step Deshadow Diffusion via Reward Guidance

    Oct 1, 2026Junseong Shin, Kijun Kim, Minseong Kim +2Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationDiffusion Models for Image Restoration

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Hanyang University · AX Future Technology Institute, KT · Department of Computer Science, Hanyang University

  4. Specificity-Aware Diffusion Steering via Variance-Reduced Sequential Monte Carlo

    Sep 30, 2026Luran Wang, Linrui Ma, Hannes Stärk +1Diffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion Guidance

    CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  5. FairDiff: Mitigating the Self-Reinforcing Matthew Effect in Diffusion Recommender Models

    Sep 29, 2026Song-Li Wu, Xianquan Wang, Zhaocheng Du +2Diffusion GuidanceAlgorithmic Fairness

    Tsinghua University · University of Science and Technology of China · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

  6. Trajectory-Level Mode Guidance for Controllable Diffusion-Based Multi-Robot Motion Planning

    Sep 29, 2026Tianyou Yu, Shengze Cai, Chao XuMulti-Robot Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

    Institute of Cyber-System and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  7. Persistence Forcing: Exploiting Feature Specialization in Pixel-Space Diffusion

    Sep 28, 2026Chong Wang, Zixuan Fu, Shiqi Huang +3Diffusion TransformerDiffusion Guidance

    Nanyang Technological University · KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Hebei University of Technology

  8. RIDE: Reference-Anchored Inference-Time Diffusion Editing for Scaffold Hopping

    Sep 28, 2026Ruoxi Gao, Frazier N. Baker, Trieu Nguyen +1Diffusion GuidanceStructure-Based Drug Design

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University · Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University · Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University +1

  9. Domain-adaptive Zero-Shot Image Enhancement via Locality-Constrained Diffusion Guidance

    Sep 28, 2026Theresa Neubauer, Dimitrios Lenis, Astrid Berg +7Diffusion Model GuidanceImage Enhancement

    VRVis GmbH, Vienna, Austria

  10. Attention-Scoped Guidance: Training-Free Spatial Control for Image Editing

    Sep 28, 2026Zeyan Li, Wei Zhou, Hadi Amirpour +3Classifier-Free GuidanceText-Guided Image Editing

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Cardiff University · University of Klagenfurt +1

  11. ReGDiff: Guided Diffusion in Regulated Latent Space for Exploring Metamaterial Voxel Geometry

    Sep 28, 2026Wangzhi Zhan, Jianpeng Chen, Dongqi Fu +1Diffusion GuidanceMaterials Science

    Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 · Meta Menlo Park, CA 94025

  12. PredActor: Predictive Action Diffusion for Steerable Onboard Humanoid Control

    Sep 21, 2026Lei Ye, Haibo Gao, Yitang Li +10Diffusion GuidanceHumanoid Robot Control

    Harbin Institute of Technology · Shanghai Innovation Institute · RoboParty Lab +2

  13. How to Guide Your Language Flow

    Sep 16, 2026Rohit Dilip, Tianrong Chen, Yuyang Wang +3Flow MatchingDiffusion Model Guidance

    Apple · Caltech

  14. ProtoGuide: Prototype-Driven Guidance for Class-Conditional Graph Generation

    Sep 14, 2026Salvatore Romano, Marco Grassia, Pietro Liò +1Graph GenerationDiffusion Guidance

    Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Italy · Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK · University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy

  15. SNM-VFI: Symmetric Nonlinear Motion-Guided Generative Video Frame Interpolation

    Aug 13, 2026Jisoo Jeong, Hong Cai, Jamie Menjay Lin +5Video Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Guidance

    Qualcomm AI Research · Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

  16. FiRe: Fixed-Noise Refinement for Visual Counterfactual Explanations

    Aug 9, 2026Yan Zeng, Changlu Guo, Oskar Kristoffersen +3Counterfactual ExplanationsDiffusion Guidance

    Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark

  17. RIDGE: Re-Noising with Internal Dynamic Guidance for Image Editing

    Aug 4, 2026Ruiliang Gong, Zhen Wang, Yanghao Wang +1Diffusion GuidanceDiffusion-Based Image Editing

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  18. Astrolabe: Spherical-Map Guidance Across Diffusion Pipelines for Full-Body Capture from Unconstrained Images

    Aug 2, 2026Shuliang Zhu, Qi Wang, Ryugo Morita +13D ReconstructionDiffusion Guidance

  19. Diffusion-Guided Search via Exponential Tilting (DiffTilt): An Application to Falsification of Safety-Critical Systems

    Jul 25, 2026Tanmay Khandait, Preetom Biswas, Hideki Okamoto +3Importance SamplingDiffusion Guidance

    School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA · Toyota Motor North America, Research & Development, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA

  20. GRACE: Gradient-Free Robot Action Generation via Combined Diffusion-MPPI Posterior Mean Estimation

    Jul 22, 2026Leesai Park, Jiho HOng, Sanghyun KimDiffusion GuidanceDiffusion Policy

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea. · Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology (AICT), Suwon, Republic of Korea.

  21. Appearance Pointers -- Multimodal Region Control of Diffusion Transformers

    Jul 21, 2026Rahul Sajnani, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Radomír Měch +2Diffusion TransformerConditional Image Generation

    1Brown University · 2Adobe Research

  22. Asynchronous Multimodal Diffusion Policy Composition via Latency-Aware Guidance Fusion

    Jul 19, 2026Zihao He, Hongjie Fang, Shirun Tang +2Diffusion GuidanceDiffusion Policy

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Noematrix · Shanghai Innovation Institute +1

  23. PhysPlan: Grounded Physical State Reasoning and Graph-Guided Optimization for Physically Plausible Video Generation

    Jul 16, 2026Minh-Loi Nguyen, Xuan-Vu Le, Trung-Nghia Le +3Physical Consistency in Video GenerationImage-to-Video Generation

    University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, US +1

  24. Feature-Space Guided Diffusion for Realistic Ultrasound Image Synthesis

    Jul 13, 2026Marina Domínguez, Nélida Mirabet-Herranz, Valery NaranjoDiffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion Guidance

    Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Tecnología Centrada en el Ser Humano, HUMAN-tech, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain · Artikode Intelligence S.L., Valencia, Spain

  25. D-SafeMPC: Diffusion-Driven Safe Model Predictive Control with Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions

    Jul 12, 2026Erdi Sayar, Ersin Daş, Joel W. Burdick +2Constrained Motion PlanningDiffusion-Based Planning

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Paderborn University, 33098 Paderborn, Germany · Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA · Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA +1

  26. PoseAlign: Sculpting Pose-Consistent Meshes via Text-Guided Deformation

    Jul 12, 2026Shijin Wang, Zichong Chen, Yang Zhou +1Diffusion GuidanceScore Distillation Sampling

    Guangdong Provincial Key Lab. of Visual Media and Multidim. Intelligence, CSSE, Shenzhen University, China.

  27. SAGA: Stable Acceleration Guidance for Autoregressive Video Generation

    Jul 9, 2026Thanh-Nhan Vo, Trong-Thuan Nguyen, Trung-Hoang Le +2Video Diffusion ModelsAutoregressive Diffusion

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · University of Dayton, U.S.A.

  28. D2PO: Optimizing Diffusion Samplers via Dynamic Preference

    Jul 7, 2026Jinkyu Kim, Jinyoung Choi, Bohyung HanDiffusion Model AlignmentDirect Preference Optimization

    1ECE & 2IPAI, Seoul National University, Korea · 3AIGS, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

  29. IPDiff: Diffusion-driven ORSI Salient Object Detection with Information Reconstruction and Multi-Prior Guidance

    Jul 4, 2026Gongyang Li, Zhen Bai, Runmin Cong +3Salient Object DetectionDiffusion Guidance

    School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China · Department of Medical Equipment, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China · School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China +2

  30. Awakening Diffusion Transformers: Eliciting Stronger Generation and Understanding via Massive Activation Modulation

    Jul 3, 2026Chaofan Gan, Zicheng Zhao, Yuanpeng Tu +6Visual Representation LearningDiffusion Transformer

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Monash University, Melbourne, Australia +2

  31. Wavelet-Guided Semantic Signal Compensation for Inversion-Free Image Editing

    Jul 2, 2026Anqi Tang, Wenhao Sun, Zhaoqiang LiuDiffusion Model GuidanceText-Guided Image Editing

    The authors are with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

  32. Not All Prediction Targets Keep Training-Free Diffusion Guidance on the Manifold

    Jul 1, 2026Yunsung Lee, Hyeongmin LeeDiffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion Guidance

    MAUM.AI, Republic of Korea · Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

  33. Intermediate Text Representation Guided Text-to-Image Generation for Enhancing One-and-Only Alignment

    Jun 29, 2026Soyoun Won, Aryan Yazdan Parast, Basim Azam +2Text-Image AlignmentT2I Generation

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

  34. GeoEdit: Geometry-Aware Object Editing via Dual-Branch Denoising

    Jun 29, 2026Yi He, Jiangming Wang, Xinyu Wang +5Diffusion GuidanceDiffusion-Based Image Editing

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University · Sun Yat-sen University · Peking University +3

  35. Concept Removal Guidance: Evidence-Calibrated Negative Guidance for Safe Diffusion Sampling

    Jun 29, 2026Yoonseok Choi, Chaeyoung Oh, Hyunjun Choi +2Diffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion Guidance

    Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Center for Humanoid Research, KIST, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  36. Proposal-Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Closed-Loop Traffic Scenario Generation

    Jun 25, 2026Shubham Vaijanath Phoolari, Aleyna Kara, Christoph Lauer +1Diffusion GuidanceDiffusion Model Acceleration

    Authors are with CARIAD SE, Germany. · Author is with the Institute of Automotive Engineering (FZD), TU Darmstadt, Germany. · Author is with the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

  37. NoiseTilt: Noise-Tilted Reverse Kernels for Diffusion Reward Alignment

    Jun 16, 2026Jisung Hwang, Yunhong Min, Jaihoon Kim +2Diffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Model Guidance

    1KAIST · †This work was done in part while the author was a visiting researcher at The University of Tokyo. · 2The University of Tokyo

  38. Towards More General Control of Diffusion Models Using Jeffrey Guidance

    Jun 11, 2026Raphaël Razafindralambo, Rémy Sun, Frédéric Precioso +2Diffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion Guidance

    Inria, CNRS, I3S, Maasai Université Côte d’Azur, France · Technical University of Denmark, Denmark · Inria, CNRS, LJAD, Maasai Université Côte d’Azur, France

  39. Least-Action-Guided Diffusion for Physical Extrapolation

    Jun 9, 2026Zhongxin Yang, Yuanwei Bin, Xiang I. A. Yang +1Physics-Informed Diffusion ModelsPhysics-Informed Generative Modeling

    College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · Ningbo Institute for Digital Twin, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo 315200, Zhejiang, China · Eastern Institute for Advanced Study, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo 315200, Zhejiang, China +2

  40. Guided Discovery of New Behaviors using Diffusion Policies

    Jun 7, 2026Dian Yu, Sebastian Sanokowski, Majid KhadivDiffusion GuidanceDiffusion Policy

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich

  41. DirectAudioEdit: Inversion-Free Text-Guided Audio Editing via Diffusion Prediction Contrast

    Jun 5, 2026Zhengkun Ge, Xiaoqian Liu, Haoran Zhang +5Audio EditingAudio Diffusion Models

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China · Kunming University of Science and Technology · NiuTrans Research, Shenyang, China

  42. Physics in 2-Steps: Locking Motion Priors Before Visual Refinement Erases Them

    Jun 4, 2026Woojung Han, Seil Kang, Youngjun Jun +3Physical Consistency in Video GenerationImage-to-Video Generation

    1Yonsei University, South Korea · 2NVIDIA, Taiwan.

  43. ParetoPilot: Zero-Surrogate Offline Multi-Objective Optimization via Infer-Perturb-Guide Diffusion

    Jun 3, 2026Ruiqing Sun, Sen Yang, Dawei Feng +3Diffusion GuidanceMulti-Objective Optimization

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Bioinformatics Center of AMMS, Beijing 100080, China

  44. DiBS: Diffusion-Informed Branch Selection

    Jun 2, 2026Bo Liu, Yuan Xie, Yuan Gao +4Diffusion GuidanceConstraint Satisfaction

    1Jilin University · 2The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · 3Southwest University +3

  45. Ultra Diffusion Poser: Diffusion-Based Human Motion Tracking From Sparse Inertial Sensors and Ranging-Based Between-Sensor Distances

    Jun 1, 2026Dominik Hollidt, Tommaso Bendinelli, Christian HolzMarkerless Motion CaptureDiffusion Guidance

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  46. Sample-Efficient Diffusion-based Reinforcement Learning with Critic Guidance

    May 28, 2026Shutong Ding, Zejia Zhong, Zhongyi Wang +4Diffusion GuidanceRobotic RL

    1ShanghaiTech University.

  47. Alignment-Guided Score Matching for Text-to-Image Alignment in Diffusion Models

    May 28, 2026Jaa-Yeon Lee, Yeobin Hong, Taesung Kwon +1Diffusion Model AlignmentText-Image Alignment

    Graduate School of AI, KAIST, South Korea.

  48. Fisher-Preserving Guidance: Training-Free Manifold Constraints for Safe Diffusion Control

    May 28, 2026Hao Ren, Zetong Bi, Yiming Zeng +5Diffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion-Based Planning

    Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China · Insta360 Research, Shenzhen, China

  49. Spectral Guidance for Flexible and Efficient Control of Diffusion Models

    May 27, 2026Gabriel Moreira, Manuel Marques, João Paulo Costeira +1Diffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion Guidance

    Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  50. Sketch2Motion: Text-driven 2D Sketch to 3D Animation via Diffusion-guided Skeleton Optimization

    May 27, 2026Gaurav Rai, Ojaswa SharmaText-to-Motion GenerationDiffusion Guidance

    Graphics Research Group, IIIT Delhi

  51. Geometry-Correct Diffusion Posterior Sampling with Denoiser-Pullback Curvature Guidance and Manifold-Aligned Damping

    May 27, 2026Seunghyeok Shin, Minwoo Kim, Dabin Kim +1Gauss-Newton OptimizationBayesian Inverse Problems

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, 22212, South Korea.

  52. Frequency-Guided Action Diffusion via Sub-Frequency Manifold Traversal

    May 27, 2026Junlin WangDiffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion Guidance

    School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Pennsylvania

  53. Sum of Costs Diffusion with Dynamic Guidance for Motion Planning

    May 23, 2026Aysu Aylin Kaplan, Özgür ErkentTrajectory GenerationDiffusion-Based Planning

    Computer Engineering Department, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

  54. Structural Energy Guidance for View-Consistent Text-to-3D Generation

    May 19, 2026Qing Zhang, Jinguang Tong, Jing Zhang +2Multi-View ConsistencyDiffusion Model Guidance

    Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia. · CSIRO, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia. · The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.

  55. Learning to Balance: Decoupled Siamese Diffusion Transformer for Reference-Based Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution

    May 18, 2026Bin Luo, Runmin Dong, Zhaoyang Luo +4Diffusion Models for Image RestorationDiffusion Transformer

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen, China · Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China +1

  56. Beyond Execution: Static-Analysis Rewards and Hint-Conditioned Diffusion RL for Code Generation

    May 16, 2026Shuyin Ouyang, Zhaozhi Qian, Faroq AL-Tam +2RL for Code GenerationDiffusion Guidance

    King’s College London · Elm Europe

  57. TILT: Model-Intrinsic Reward Alignment For Compositional Diffusion

    May 16, 2026Debottam Dutta, Jianchong Chen, Jaehoon Hahm +1Diffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Model Guidance

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA · Zhejiang University, China · Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

  58. Registers Matter for Pixel-Space Diffusion Transformers

    May 15, 2026Nikita Starodubcev, Ilia Sudakov, Ilya Drobyshevskiy +2Diffusion TransformerDiffusion Guidance

    Yandex Research

  59. Physics-Guided Geometric Diffusion for Macro Placement Generation

    May 15, 2026Jongho Yoon, Jinsung Jeon, Seokhyeong KangElectronic Design AutomationDiffusion Guidance

    1POSTECH Institute of Artificial Intelligence · 2KAIST InnoCORE LLM · 3Seoul National University +1

  60. Tuning-free Instruction-based Video Editing Via Structural Noise Initialization and Guidance

    May 15, 2026Song Wu, Xinyu Chen, Qian Wang +3Video Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Guidance

    JIUTIAN Research, China · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University · State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University