DICT: Data Injection and Contrastive Trajectory Refinement for Conditional Image Generation with Diffusion Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03899v1
• Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:44:06 GMT
• Title: DICT: Data Injection and Contrastive Trajectory Refinement for Conditional Image Generation with Diffusion Models
• Abstract summary: We propose Data Injection and Contrastive Trajectory Refinement (DICT) for conditional image generation tasks.<n>DICT integrates noise-perturbed conditional signals into early denoising stages and applies Contrastive Trajectory Refinement across adjacent denoising states.<n>Experiments show consistent gains in fidelity and perceptual quality over representative task-specific and loss-guided baselines.
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• Abstract: Diffusion models have become a dominant paradigm for conditional image generation, yet existing approaches generally follow two directions: task-specific designs that can improve performance but limit generalization, and training-free loss guidance that compresses rich conditions into scalar objectives and applies stepwise guidance, leading to information bottlenecks and error accumulation along the sampling trajectory. Given the urgent need for an effective unified framework across diverse conditional image generation tasks, we propose Data Injection and Contrastive Trajectory Refinement (DICT), a training-free inference method that enhances conditional image generation without introducing task-dependent architectures. DICT introduces Data Injection, where noise-perturbed conditional signals are integrated into early denoising stages; by performing guided denoising on these injected signals, DICT adaptively selects and distills task-salient information from the raw condition, effectively preserving spatial richness and ensuring precise condition-to-generation alignment. Furthermore, DICT applies Contrastive Trajectory Refinement across adjacent denoising states, enabling pairwise comparisons that progressively improve sample quality. These designs keep inference simple while improving cross-task transfer under a unified diffusion formulation. Extensive experiments on conditional image generation tasks (e.g., style transfer, image super-resolution, and image deblurring) show consistent gains in fidelity and perceptual quality over representative task-specific and loss-guided baselines.

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