Inference-Time Alignment in Diffusion Models with Reward-Guided Generation: Tutorial and Review

M Uehara, Y Zhao, C Wang, X Li, A Regev… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
This tutorial provides an in-depth guide on inference-time guidance and alignment methods
for optimizing downstream reward functions in diffusion models. While diffusion models are …

Steerable Conditional Diffusion for Out-of-Distribution Adaptation in Medical Image Reconstruction

R Barbano, A Denker, H Chung, TH Roh… - … on Medical Imaging, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Denoising diffusion models have emerged as the go-to generative framework for solving
inverse problems in imaging. A critical concern regarding these models is their performance …

[PDF][PDF] A stochastic analysis approach to conditional diffusion guidance

W Tang, R Xu - 2024 - columbia.edu
Recently, there has been growing interest in guiding, or fine tuning pretrained diffusion
models for specific purposes, eg, aesthetic quality of images, functional property of proteins …