Delta Score Matters! Spatial Adaptive Multi Guidance in Diffusion Models
arXiv cs.CV / 4/30/2026
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Key Points
- The paper explains why standard Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) in diffusion models struggles: a globally uniform guidance scalar leads to a “detail-artifact dilemma,” where low guidance loses semantics and high guidance causes structural/color and temporal artifacts.
- By using differential geometry and Tweedie’s Formula, the authors argue that CFG effectively performs a tangential linear extrapolation that becomes problematic on a highly curved data manifold, creating large orthogonal deviation.
- They derive theoretical upper bounds on safe guidance and introduce Spatial Adaptive Multi Guidance (SAMG) to adapt guidance spatially and point-wise during sampling.
- SAMG is described as training-free and virtually zero-cost, using conservative minimum guidance near high-energy boundaries to protect micro-textures while applying aggressive maximum guidance in low-energy areas to improve semantic injection.
- Experiments on multiple image and video diffusion architectures show SAMG improves semantic alignment, structural fidelity, and temporal smoothness while avoiding extra computational overhead.
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