3 papers
cs.CV2026
Manifold-Constrained Noise Optimization for Diverse Diffusion Sampling
Qitan Shi, Cheng Jin, Ziyuan Liu +1
Few-step distilled diffusion models generate high-quality images quickly, but often lose per-prompt diversity, producing near-identical samples across random seeds. Optimizing the…
cs.LG2026
ReTrack: Data Unlearning in Diffusion Models through Redirecting the Denoising Trajectory
Qitan Shi, Cheng Jin, Jiawei Zhang +1
Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse images but suffer from training data memorization, raising critical privacy and safety concerns. Data unlearning has emer…
cs.LG2026
Stage-wise Dynamics of Classifier-Free Guidance in Diffusion Models
Cheng Jin, Qitan Shi, Yuantao Gu
Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is widely used to improve conditional fidelity in diffusion models, but its impact on sampling dynamics remains poorly understood. Prior studies, oft…