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arxiv: 2503.02537 · v4 · submitted 2025-03-04 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

RectifiedHR: Enable Efficient High-Resolution Synthesis via Energy Rectification

Zhen Yang , Guibao Shen , Minyang Li , Liang Hou , Mushui Liu , Luozhou Wang , Xin Tao , Ying-Cong Chen This is my paper

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keywords diffusion modelshigh-resolution synthesistraining-free methodsenergy decayclassifier-free guidanceimage generationcomputer vision
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RectifiedHR lets diffusion models synthesize high-resolution images without any retraining by refreshing noise and tuning guidance.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that a simple training-free procedure can restore high-resolution synthesis capability in diffusion models that were trained only at lower resolutions. It introduces a noise refresh step that re-enables the model’s native behavior at higher scales and identifies energy decay in the latent space as the source of the resulting blur. The authors show that measuring average latent energy and adjusting the classifier-free guidance scale corrects the blur while keeping the process efficient. Because the method requires no parameter updates and works alongside existing techniques, it directly addresses the practical barrier that high-resolution generation has posed for diffusion pipelines.

Core claim

RectifiedHR shows that a noise refresh strategy combined with classifier-free guidance tuned via average latent energy analysis restores efficient high-resolution synthesis in pre-trained diffusion models without any additional training.

What carries the argument

Noise refresh strategy that re-initializes the denoising trajectory at the target resolution, paired with average latent energy analysis to select an effective classifier-free guidance value.

If this is right

  • Pre-trained diffusion models can generate usable images at resolutions above their training scale without retraining or architectural changes.
  • The same procedure improves efficiency compared with prior training-based or multi-stage high-resolution approaches.
  • The method can be combined with editing, customization, and video pipelines that already rely on the underlying diffusion model.
  • Quantitative comparisons indicate higher visual quality and lower compute cost than existing baselines on the same models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The energy measurement step could be inserted into other diffusion workflows to detect and correct scale-dependent degradation without changing the model weights.
  • Because the fix is post-training, practitioners could apply RectifiedHR to any publicly released diffusion checkpoint to obtain higher-resolution output immediately.
  • The observation that latent energy tracks blurriness may motivate new monitoring tools for diagnosing generation failures at different resolutions.

Load-bearing premise

Energy decay during high-resolution denoising is the primary cause of blurriness and can be reliably corrected by adjusting the classifier-free guidance hyperparameter alone.

What would settle it

High-resolution outputs that remain blurry or acquire new artifacts even after the noise refresh step and the energy-guided guidance adjustment would show the method does not solve the core problem.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2503.02537 by Guibao Shen, Liang Hou, Luozhou Wang, Minyang Li, Mushui Liu, Xin Tao, Ying-Cong Chen, Zhen Yang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Generated images by RectifiedHR. The training-free RectifiedHR enables diffusion models (SDXL is shown in the figure) to synthesize images at resolutions exceeding their original training resolution. Please zoom in for a closer view. Abstract Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress across various visual generation tasks. However, their perfor￾mance significantly declines when generating content … view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The visualization images corresponding to “predicted [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: (a) The x-axis denotes the timesteps of the sampling process, and the y-axis indicates the average latent energy. The blue [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Overview of RectifiedHR. (a) The original sampling process and its pseudocode. (b) The sampling process and pseudocode of our method. The orange components in the pseudocode and modules correspond to Noise Refresh, while the purple components represent Energy Rectification. ϵ denotes Gaussian random noise, whose shape adapts to that of p˜ t x0 . The definitions of other symbols used in the pseudocode can b… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison between our method and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative results of the ablation studies at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative comparison across three different resolutions between our method and other training-free methods. The red box [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Applications. (a) Results of integrating [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: The trend of the “predicted x0” at different timesteps t, denoted as p t x0 , evaluated on 100 random prompts. (a) The average MSE between p t x0 and p t−1 x0 . The x-axis represents the sampling timestep, and the y-axis denotes the average MSE. It can be observed that after approximately 30 steps, the rate of change in p t x0 slows significantly. (b) The trend of the average CLIP Score between p t x0 and … view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative comparison on Stable Diffusion 3 at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: The image illustrates the ablation study of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: The image illustrates the ablation study of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: The image illustrates the ablation study of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Visualization of the average latent energy curve following energy rectification. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_19.png] view at source ↗
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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress across various visual generation tasks. However, their performance significantly declines when generating content at resolutions higher than those used during training. Although numerous methods have been proposed to enable high-resolution generation, they all suffer from inefficiency. In this paper, we propose RectifiedHR, a straightforward and efficient solution for training-free high-resolution synthesis. Specifically, we propose a noise refresh strategy that unlocks the model's training-free high-resolution synthesis capability and improves efficiency. Additionally, we are the first to observe the phenomenon of energy decay, which may cause image blurriness during the high-resolution synthesis process. To address this issue, we introduce average latent energy analysis and find that tuning the classifier-free guidance hyperparameter can significantly improve generation performance. Our method is entirely training-free and demonstrates efficient performance. Furthermore, we show that RectifiedHR is compatible with various diffusion model techniques, enabling advanced features such as image editing, customized generation, and video synthesis. Extensive comparisons with numerous baseline methods validate the superior effectiveness and efficiency of RectifiedHR.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes RectifiedHR, a training-free method for high-resolution synthesis with pre-trained diffusion models. It introduces a noise refresh strategy to unlock high-res capability and reports an observed 'energy decay' phenomenon in latent space during the process, which is hypothesized to cause blurriness. Average latent energy analysis is used to motivate tuning the classifier-free guidance (CFG) scale as a correction. The method is presented as efficient, compatible with editing/customization/video tasks, and superior in effectiveness and efficiency to prior baselines.

Significance. If the causal link between energy decay and blurriness is validated and the CFG correction shown to be robust without side effects, the approach could provide a lightweight, training-free route to high-resolution generation that avoids the cost of resolution-specific fine-tuning. Compatibility with other diffusion techniques would further increase its practical value.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (energy decay observation): the manuscript states that energy decay 'may cause image blurriness' and that CFG tuning 'can significantly improve generation performance,' yet supplies no controlled ablations that isolate energy decay from other factors (noise accumulation, UNet resolution mismatch) while holding sampling steps, scheduler, and prompt fixed. Without such isolation or secondary metrics (saturation histograms, diversity scores, artifact counts), the causal claim remains unverified.
  2. [§4 and experimental results] §4 (RectifiedHR pipeline) and experimental results: superiority is asserted via 'extensive comparisons,' but the text provides neither error bars across multiple seeds, statistical significance tests, nor quantitative tables reporting FID/CLIP scores on standard high-res benchmarks (e.g., 1024×1024 or 2048×2048). The absence of these load-bearing metrics prevents assessment of whether the reported gains exceed baseline variance.
  3. [§4.2] §4.2 (CFG tuning via average latent energy): the claim that simply increasing the CFG scale reliably corrects energy decay without introducing new artifacts (oversaturation, mode collapse, detail loss) is not supported by any reported artifact-detection experiments or diversity metrics. A single hyperparameter sweep without negative controls leaves the 'reliable fix' assertion open to question.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for 'average latent energy' is introduced without an explicit equation; adding a short definition (e.g., E_avg = (1/N) Σ ||z_t||^2) would improve reproducibility.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions should explicitly state the resolution, CFG scale, and number of sampling steps used for each visual comparison.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback on our work. We provide point-by-point responses to the major comments below. We agree that the suggested additions will improve the manuscript and plan to incorporate them.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (energy decay observation): the manuscript states that energy decay 'may cause image blurriness' and that CFG tuning 'can significantly improve generation performance,' yet supplies no controlled ablations that isolate energy decay from other factors (noise accumulation, UNet resolution mismatch) while holding sampling steps, scheduler, and prompt fixed. Without such isolation or secondary metrics (saturation histograms, diversity scores, artifact counts), the causal claim remains unverified.

    Authors: We agree that controlled ablations are necessary to strengthen the causal claim. In the revised manuscript, we will include experiments that isolate energy decay by controlling for noise accumulation and UNet resolution mismatch, while keeping sampling steps, scheduler, and prompt fixed. We will also report secondary metrics including saturation histograms, diversity scores, and artifact counts to verify the link to blurriness. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4 and experimental results] §4 (RectifiedHR pipeline) and experimental results: superiority is asserted via 'extensive comparisons,' but the text provides neither error bars across multiple seeds, statistical significance tests, nor quantitative tables reporting FID/CLIP scores on standard high-res benchmarks (e.g., 1024×1024 or 2048×2048). The absence of these load-bearing metrics prevents assessment of whether the reported gains exceed baseline variance.

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of rigorous quantitative evaluation. In the revised version, we will add error bars from multiple seeds, statistical significance tests, and tables with FID and CLIP scores on 1024×1024 and 2048×2048 benchmarks to allow proper assessment of the gains. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (CFG tuning via average latent energy): the claim that simply increasing the CFG scale reliably corrects energy decay without introducing new artifacts (oversaturation, mode collapse, detail loss) is not supported by any reported artifact-detection experiments or diversity metrics. A single hyperparameter sweep without negative controls leaves the 'reliable fix' assertion open to question.

    Authors: We agree that additional validation is required. We will expand §4.2 with artifact-detection experiments, diversity metrics, and negative controls for the CFG scale tuning to demonstrate that it corrects energy decay without the listed side effects. revision: yes

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No circularity; empirical observation and hyperparameter tuning

full rationale

The paper's core contributions are a noise refresh strategy and CFG tuning informed by observed energy decay via average latent energy analysis. These are presented as empirical findings without any claimed derivation, first-principles prediction, or fitted parameter that reduces to its own inputs by construction. No self-citation load-bearing steps, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked in the provided text. The method is explicitly training-free and validated through comparisons, making the derivation chain self-contained against external benchmarks.

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