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7 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

Continuity and Ordinality Matter: Constraining Time Series Tokens for Effective Time Series Analysis with Large Language Models

Musheng Li, Ziying Zhang, Cheng jin +1

Token-based time series large language models (TS-LLMs) have emerged as a promising direction for time series analysis and reasoning. However, prior studies largely overlook the in…

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…

cs.LG2026

A-FloPS: Accelerating Diffusion Models via Adaptive Flow Path Sampler

Cheng Jin, Zhenyu Xiao, Yuantao Gu

Diffusion models deliver state-of-the-art generative performance across diverse modalities but remain computationally expensive due to their inherently iterative sampling process.…

cs.LG2025

Angle Domain Guidance: Latent Diffusion Requires Rotation Rather Than Extrapolation

Cheng Jin, Zhenyu Xiao, Chutao Liu +1

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has emerged as a pivotal advancement in text-to-image latent diffusion models, establishing itself as a cornerstone technique for achieving high-qual…