Efficient Covariance-Aware Vicinal Latent Diffusion for Continuous Conditional Image Generation
2610.39277

Authors

Fei Wu,Xin Ding,Shuo Huang,Zhenglong Ding,Sen Zhang

Abstract

Continuous Conditional Generative Modeling (CCGM) aims to synthesize high-dimensional data conditioned on continuously valued scalar labels. However, existing continuous diffusion models face severe data sparsity under imbalanced and long-tailed label distributions, which can lead to visual artifacts and condition inconsistency.

Moreover, inference-time classifier-free guidance and dense pixel-space integration introduce substantial sampling overhead, limiting practical deployment. To address these challenges, we propose CAViLD, an efficient latent diffusion framework for continuous conditional generation.

CAViLD first constructs a purified condition-aware latent space through density-adaptive vicinal learning, auxiliary semantic regularization, and NIQE-guided negative data augmentation. It then internalizes the conditional guidance direction through an EMA teacher, enabling single-branch conditional inference, and introduces covariance-aware progressive distillation for label-dependent probability-flow ODEs, supporting sampling down to four NFEs.

Experiments on RC-49, UTKFace, and Steering Angle demonstrate a favorable trade-off among generation fidelity, continuous condition consistency, and sampling efficiency.

Resources

Ray graphicRay graphicRay graphicRay graphic

Stay in the loop

Every AI paper that matters, free in your inbox daily.

Details

  • takara.ai
  • Custom AI and machine learning from the Frontier Research Team.
  • © 2026 takara.ai Ltd
  • Content is sourced from third-party publications.
Ray graphicRay graphicRay graphic