arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-04
Unified Backbone Refinement for Diffusion Models via Internal-Latent Analysis
Haksoo Lim, Myeongjin Lee, Wonjoon Chang, Jaesik Choi
Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, with performance closely related to the denoising backbones that parameterize the score function. In this paper, we present a systematic, phase-aware analysis of diffusion components and show that abrupt, e…