Classifier-Free Guidance offers little gain over modern backbones
kwangmoo_yi · x · 2026-08-21
A paper by Sergievskii and Turevich et al. revisits classifier-free guidance methods. It finds that with modern backbones, none of the proposed guidance methods provide significant gains over standard CFG.
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