VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Manuel Kansy
dblp:339/9601
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › guided diffusion
classifier-free guidance |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for Diffusion Models · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
conditional sampling |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for Diffusion Models · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for Diffusion Models · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › generative model
unconditional generation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for Diffusion Models · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
timestep guidance · 0.9independent condition guidance · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for Diffusion ModelsabstractClassifier-free guidance (CFG) has become the standard method for enhancing the quality of conditional diffusion models. However, employing CFG requires either training an unconditional model alongside the main diffusion model or modifying the training procedure by periodically inserting a null condition. There is also no clear extension of CFG to unconditional models. In this paper, we revisit the core principles of CFG and introduce a new method, independent condition guidance (ICG), which provides the benefits of CFG without the need for any special training procedures. Our approach streamlines the training process of conditional diffusion models and can also be applied during inference on any pre-trained conditional model. Additionally, by leveraging the time-step information encoded in all diffusion networks, we propose an extension of CFG, called time-step guidance (TSG), which can be applied to *any* diffusion model, including unconditional ones. Our guidance techniques are easy to implement and have the same sampling cost as CFG. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that ICG matches the performance of standard CFG across various conditional diffusion models. Moreover, we show that TSG improves generation quality in a manner similar to CFG, without relying on any conditional information. Seyedmorteza Sadat, Manuel Kansy, Otmar Hilliges, Romann M. Weber |
ICLR | 2 |