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DiFA: Inference-Time Forward-Process Alignment for Diffusion Models

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TL;DR - DiFA is a training-free diffusion inference framework that treats iterative denoising predictions as correlated observations in a sequential state-estimation process. It improves generative fidelity by building a forward-process-aligned consensus while preserving fine details.

  • Aggregates historical reverse-trajectory predictions based on structural consistency and noise-level compatibility.
  • Draws on Kalman filtering rather than treating inference solely as numerical integration.
  • Uses adaptive deviation guidance to counter temporal consensus over-smoothing.
  • Improves FID, IS, and FD-DINOv2 metrics on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet.

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DiFA: Inference-Time Forward-Process Alignment for Diffusion Models

arXiv cs.LG Shigui Li, Delu Zeng 2026-07-20 arXiv:2607.17972
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TL;DR - DiFA is a training-free diffusion inference framework that treats iterative denoising predictions as correlated observations in a sequential state-estimation process. It improves generative fidelity by building a forward-process-aligned consensus while preserving fine details.

  • Aggregates historical reverse-trajectory predictions based on structural consistency and noise-level compatibility.
  • Draws on Kalman filtering rather than treating inference solely as numerical integration.
  • Uses adaptive deviation guidance to counter temporal consensus over-smoothing.
  • Improves FID, IS, and FD-DINOv2 metrics on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet.
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