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arxiv: 2606.31323 · v1 · pith:IROMVVTBnew · submitted 2026-06-30 · 💻 cs.CV

Accelerated Likelihood Maximization for Diffusion-based Versatile Content Generation

Hyunsoo Lee , Inwoo Hwang , Young Min Kim This is my paper

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A training-free sampling strategy called ALM directly optimizes unobserved regions during reverse diffusion to produce globally coherent content from partial inputs.

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

The paper seeks to overcome limitations in diffusion models when generating from incomplete inputs such as masked images. Existing training-free methods influence missing areas only indirectly through constraints on known regions, which often yields global inconsistencies. ALM adds direct optimization of those unobserved variables inside the sampling loop plus an acceleration step to maintain speed. This combination aims to support a wider range of generation tasks without any model retraining. A sympathetic reader would value the result because it promises more reliable editing and completion pipelines that work across domains.

Core claim

We introduce Accelerated Likelihood Maximization (ALM), a novel training-free sampling strategy integrated into the reverse diffusion process that significantly extends the applicability of diffusion models beyond simple generation tasks. Unlike previous methods that implicitly influence missing regions through pre-generated region constraints, we directly optimize the unobserved region during the sampling process, enabling globally coherent and plausible generation. Furthermore, we incorporate an acceleration strategy that significantly improves computational efficiency without sacrificing performance. Experimental results demonstrate that ALM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art metho

What carries the argument

Accelerated Likelihood Maximization (ALM), the training-free sampler that directly optimizes unobserved regions inside the reverse diffusion process.

If this is right

  • Diffusion models can now handle a broader set of partial-input tasks without task-specific retraining.
  • Global consistency improves because the method explicitly maximizes likelihood over missing variables rather than relying on indirect constraints.
  • Sampling speed increases via the built-in acceleration strategy while quality is preserved.
  • The same framework applies across multiple data domains and content-generation tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The direct-optimization step could be ported to other iterative generative processes that currently use only conditioning.
  • If the acceleration preserves likelihood quality, similar speed-ups might be tested on related score-based or flow-based models.
  • Task-specific fine-tuning budgets could shrink for applications such as video completion or 3D shape inpainting.

Load-bearing premise

Directly optimizing the unobserved region during sampling together with the acceleration step will produce globally coherent results without new inconsistencies or loss of performance.

What would settle it

A controlled comparison on standard inpainting benchmarks in which ALM outputs receive lower coherence scores or visible artifacts than the strongest prior training-free baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.31323 by Hyunsoo Lee, Inwoo Hwang, Young Min Kim.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed method. ALM aims to adapt diffusion models to reconstruct the unobserved variable while preserving pre-generated content. domain, TexPainter [72] leverages the color blending scheme to ensure multi-view consistency during mesh texturing. However, most of these techniques are tailored to specific tasks and therefore remain limited in applicability. In contrast, we propose a unified … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Qualitative comparison of our method against Stable Diffusion-based [52] image inpainting methods [23, 33, 42, 52, 76]. ALM shows superior performance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative results of image inpainting with various backbones [30, 41, 47]. we adopt SDXL as the backbone for ALM to ensure a fair comparison at 1K resolution. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative ablation study results. Each row shows the effect of ALM (Eq. 9), the conditional likelihood term (Eq. 5), the joint log-density term (Eq. 5), and the acceleration strategy (Eq. 11), respectively. 4.3 Wide Image Generation Beyond image inpainting, our approach also naturally extends to the outpainting task, enabling the synthesis of wide, high-resolution images. We employ an autoregressive imag… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison of our method against state-of-the-art methods [27,33,69]. SyncSDE exhibits noticeable discontinuities across patches, while SyncTweedies produces blurry and inconsistent coloring. StochSync likewise tends to generate blurry and discontinuous wide images. In contrast, ALM successfully produces results without blurred or inconsistent regions. 4.4 Human Motion Completion We further dem… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison of our method with baselines [11, 21] on human motion completion. While baselines show unrealistic or discontinuous motions, ALM generates plausible sequences that also align with the given text prompt. 4.5 3D Mesh Texturing We extend our method to the 3D domain by applying it to the mesh texturing task. Following the standard setup of prior works [27, 33], we sample 10 partially ove… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative comparison of ALM with baselines [27, 33, 51, 69, 70, 72] on 3D mesh texturing. ALM generates high-fidelity texture maps, outperforming prior works. “A bright blue lizard, glossy scales, subtle patterning, vivid reptile skin” “realistic rough armadillo skin, dark earthy brown armor plates, scratched keratin texture, high-detail PBR” “Artisan croissant, deep golden crust, reflective buttery glaz… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Additional qualitative results of 3D mesh texturing. ALM generates diverse and high-fidelity textures, effectively handling detailed prompts [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Additional qualitative results of image inpainting using the pretrained Stable Diffusion [52] on diverse datasets [1, 9, 24] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative results of ALM on complex scenes generated from extremely long and complex source prompts. We use Stable Diffusion XL [47] for image generation. Adaptation to flow matching frameworks. With flow matching frameworks [30,37, 38], we first modify the score estimation. Unlike diffusion models [19, 56, 57] that predict the noise term ϵθ(Yi t , t, c), flow matching models estimate the velocity field… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Qualitative results of ALM with the FLUX [30] backbone for image inpainting on images sampled from the AFHQ dataset [9]. These results demonstrate that ALM also performs well when combined with flow matching frameworks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Additional qualitative comparison of our method with state-of-the-art meth￾ods [27, 33, 69] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Additional qualitative comparison of our method with baselines [11, 21] on human motion completion. While baselines show unrealistic or discontinuous motions, ALM generates plausible sequences that also align with the given text prompt. “the man does walking run” “a person strides forward for a few steps, then slows and stops.” “the person was walking so he could sneak up on someone.” “walking in a diagon… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Additional qualitative results of human motion completion. We show first-half (1st row), middle-half (2nd row) and last-half prediction scenario (3rd row) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Additional qualitative results of 3D mesh texturing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Qualitative results of long video generation. We use the pretrained LaVie [62], which generates 16 frame videos by default, and extend the synthesized videos to 104 frames using ALM [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Empirical justification of the score estimation of ∇Yi t log p(Xt,M, Yi t | c). We visualize the degraded masks, and report the measured deviation. Degraded masks are best visualized when magnified. As shown, the deviation remains small, verifying our score estimation strategy. D Discussion on Acceleration Strategy In this section, we validate the one-step approximation strategy described in Section 3.4 o… view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Analysis on the acceleration strategy. We show that the norm of ∆Yi t remains sufficiently small (Column 2), and the proposed one-step approximation is also valid (Column 3). These results justify the one-step approximation and support the validity of our acceleration strategy and its underlying assumptions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_18.png] view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: Qualitative results of ALM under five hyperparameter settings (w1, w2). Our method is robust to hyperparameter configurations [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_19.png] view at source ↗
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Generating diverse, coherent, and plausible content from partially given inputs remains a fundamental challenge for diffusion models. Existing approaches face clear limitations: training-based approaches offer strong task-specific results but require costly computation, and they generalize poorly across tasks. Training-free approaches offer better efficiency, but they do not explicitly optimize over unobserved variables, leading to globally inconsistent results. To address these limitations, we introduce Accelerated Likelihood Maximization (ALM), a novel training-free sampling strategy integrated into the reverse diffusion process that significantly extends the applicability of diffusion models beyond simple generation tasks. Unlike previous methods that implicitly influence missing regions through pre-generated region constraints, we directly optimize the unobserved region during the sampling process, enabling globally coherent and plausible generation. Furthermore, we incorporate an acceleration strategy that significantly improves computational efficiency without sacrificing performance. Experimental results demonstrate that ALM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various data domains and tasks, establishing a powerful paradigm for versatile content generation.

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Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Accelerated Likelihood Maximization (ALM), a training-free sampling strategy integrated into the reverse diffusion process. ALM directly optimizes unobserved regions (unlike prior methods that only apply implicit constraints via pre-generated regions) to produce globally coherent and plausible outputs from partial inputs. It further incorporates an acceleration strategy to improve efficiency without performance loss, and reports consistent outperformance over state-of-the-art methods across data domains and tasks.

Significance. If the algorithmic construction and empirical results hold, ALM would meaningfully extend diffusion models to versatile content-generation settings (inpainting, outpainting, conditional synthesis) while remaining training-free, addressing a clear gap between task-specific trained methods and existing training-free baselines that lack explicit optimization over missing variables.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2, Algorithm 1: the update rule for the unobserved variables (Eq. 7) is presented as a direct likelihood maximization step, but the manuscript does not derive or bound the effect of this step on the overall reverse-process marginal; a short proof or reference to the preservation of the learned score would strengthen the claim that global coherence is achieved without introducing new inconsistencies.
  2. [§4.3] §4.3, Table 2: the reported gains on the outpainting task are given without error bars or statistical significance tests across the 5 random seeds; given that the acceleration schedule (Eq. 12) introduces additional hyperparameters, it is unclear whether the observed improvements are robust or sensitive to seed and schedule choice.
minor comments (3)
  1. The abstract claims 'consistent outperformance' but supplies no quantitative numbers; a single sentence summarizing the key metric improvements would improve readability.
  2. [§3.3] Notation for the unobserved region mask is introduced in §2 but reused without redefinition in §3.3; a brief reminder or table of symbols would help.
  3. Figure 4 caption does not state the number of diffusion steps used for the visualized samples; this detail is needed to interpret the visual comparison with baselines.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and recommendation for minor revision. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comments.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2, Algorithm 1: the update rule for the unobserved variables (Eq. 7) is presented as a direct likelihood maximization step, but the manuscript does not derive or bound the effect of this step on the overall reverse-process marginal; a short proof or reference to the preservation of the learned score would strengthen the claim that global coherence is achieved without introducing new inconsistencies.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this point. The update in Eq. 7 is obtained by maximizing the conditional likelihood of the unobserved variables given the observed ones at each reverse step. We acknowledge that an explicit derivation of its effect on the reverse-process marginal is absent from the current text. In the revision we will insert a short proof sketch establishing that the step preserves the learned score by operating conditionally on the fixed observed regions and the pre-defined diffusion schedule, thereby avoiding new inconsistencies. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4.3] §4.3, Table 2: the reported gains on the outpainting task are given without error bars or statistical significance tests across the 5 random seeds; given that the acceleration schedule (Eq. 12) introduces additional hyperparameters, it is unclear whether the observed improvements are robust or sensitive to seed and schedule choice.

    Authors: We agree that error bars and significance testing would strengthen the presentation. The numbers in Table 2 are means over five independent random seeds; the observed gains are stable across seeds. In the revised manuscript we will add standard-deviation error bars to Table 2 and include a footnote reporting paired t-test p-values. We will also add a short discussion (and supplementary ablation) confirming that performance remains robust for reasonable choices of the acceleration-schedule hyperparameters in Eq. 12. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper proposes a new algorithmic method (ALM) for training-free sampling in diffusion models, describing an explicit optimization step over unobserved regions during the reverse process plus an acceleration schedule. No mathematical derivations, fitted parameters, or first-principles claims appear that reduce to their own inputs by construction. The central contribution rests on the concrete algorithmic construction and empirical comparisons to prior methods, which are presented as independent validation rather than self-referential. No self-citation chains, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked in a load-bearing way. This is a standard methodological paper whose claims are self-contained against external benchmarks.

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