Can We Change the Stroke Size for Easier Diffusion?
arXiv cs.CV / 3/31/2026
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Key Points
- The paper explores whether diffusion models can be improved in low signal-to-noise (SNR) settings by introducing “stroke-size control” to adjust how the model targets and perturbs data across diffusion timesteps.
- The proposed intervention is motivated by geometric intuition: using an overly fine “stroke” (i.e., overly granular pixel-level prediction) may be ineffective when noise dominates.
- It studies the theoretical and empirical benefits and trade-offs of changing the effective roughness of the supervised target, aiming to ease the pixel-level prediction burden under high noise.
- The authors indicate that code will be released, enabling replication and further experimentation with the stroke-size approach.


