Study: CFG remains superior over other guidance methods with modern backbones
kwangmoo_yi · x · 2026-08-21
The paper "Revisiting Classifier-Free Guidance Methods" by Sergievskii and Turevich et al. re-evaluates various guidance techniques. It concludes that with modern backbones, none of the proposed methods offer significant gains over the standard Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG).
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