Self-NPO: Data-Free Diffusion Model Enhancement via Truncated Diffusion Fine-Tuning

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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Fu-Yun, Sun, Keqiang, Teng, Yao, Liu, Xihui, Yuan, Jiale, Song, Jiaming, Li, Hongsheng
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author Wang, Fu-Yun
Sun, Keqiang
Teng, Yao
Liu, Xihui
Yuan, Jiale
Song, Jiaming
Li, Hongsheng
author_facet Wang, Fu-Yun
Sun, Keqiang
Teng, Yao
Liu, Xihui
Yuan, Jiale
Song, Jiaming
Li, Hongsheng
contents Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in various visual generation tasks, including image, video, and 3D content generation. Preference optimization (PO) is a prominent and growing area of research that aims to align these models with human preferences. While existing PO methods primarily concentrate on producing favorable outputs, they often overlook the significance of classifier-free guidance (CFG) in mitigating undesirable results. Diffusion-NPO addresses this gap by introducing negative preference optimization (NPO), training models to generate outputs opposite to human preferences and thereby steering them away from unfavorable outcomes through CFG. However, prior NPO approaches rely on costly and fragile procedures for obtaining explicit preference annotations (e.g., manual pairwise labeling or reward model training), limiting their practicality in domains where such data are scarce or difficult to acquire. In this work, we propose Self-NPO, specifically truncated diffusion fine-tuning, a data-free approach of negative preference optimization by directly learning from the model itself, eliminating the need for manual data labeling or reward model training. This data-free approach is highly efficient (less than 1% training cost of Diffusion-NPO) and achieves comparable performance to Diffusion-NPO in a data-free manner. We demonstrate that Self-NPO integrates seamlessly into widely used diffusion models, including SD1.5, SDXL, and CogVideoX, as well as models already optimized for human preferences, consistently enhancing both their generation quality and alignment with human preferences. Code is available at https://github.com/G-U-N/Diffusion-NPO.
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spellingShingle Self-NPO: Data-Free Diffusion Model Enhancement via Truncated Diffusion Fine-Tuning
Wang, Fu-Yun
Sun, Keqiang
Teng, Yao
Liu, Xihui
Yuan, Jiale
Song, Jiaming
Li, Hongsheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in various visual generation tasks, including image, video, and 3D content generation. Preference optimization (PO) is a prominent and growing area of research that aims to align these models with human preferences. While existing PO methods primarily concentrate on producing favorable outputs, they often overlook the significance of classifier-free guidance (CFG) in mitigating undesirable results. Diffusion-NPO addresses this gap by introducing negative preference optimization (NPO), training models to generate outputs opposite to human preferences and thereby steering them away from unfavorable outcomes through CFG. However, prior NPO approaches rely on costly and fragile procedures for obtaining explicit preference annotations (e.g., manual pairwise labeling or reward model training), limiting their practicality in domains where such data are scarce or difficult to acquire. In this work, we propose Self-NPO, specifically truncated diffusion fine-tuning, a data-free approach of negative preference optimization by directly learning from the model itself, eliminating the need for manual data labeling or reward model training. This data-free approach is highly efficient (less than 1% training cost of Diffusion-NPO) and achieves comparable performance to Diffusion-NPO in a data-free manner. We demonstrate that Self-NPO integrates seamlessly into widely used diffusion models, including SD1.5, SDXL, and CogVideoX, as well as models already optimized for human preferences, consistently enhancing both their generation quality and alignment with human preferences. Code is available at https://github.com/G-U-N/Diffusion-NPO.
title Self-NPO: Data-Free Diffusion Model Enhancement via Truncated Diffusion Fine-Tuning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11777