MIT 6.7960 L16: Conditional Generative Models — cGAN, cVAE, and Classifier-Free Guidance
The key to conditional generation is 'feed y into the model': cGAN concatenates y into G/D; cVAE passes y to both encoder and decoder; in diffusion, Classifier Guidance uses gradients from an external classifier to push samples toward a class, while Classifier-Free Guidance trains conditional + unconditional together and linearly combines them at inference — the latter is the standard weapon behind Stable Diffusion and Imagen.