ATHENA: Adaptive Test-Time Steering for Improving Count Fidelity in Diffusion Models

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ATHENA improves object count fidelity in diffusion models without retraining or modifying architectures

advanced Published 23 Mar 2026
Action Steps
  1. Leverage intermediate representations during sampling to estimate object counts
  2. Use adaptive test-time steering to adjust sampling process
  3. Implement model-agnostic framework to improve count fidelity without retraining
Who Needs to Know This

ML researchers and engineers working on diffusion models can benefit from ATHENA to improve model performance, particularly when precise object counting is crucial

Key Insight

💡 Adaptive test-time steering can improve object count fidelity in diffusion models without modifying architectures or requiring retraining

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