Tim Van de Cruys

Tim Van de Cruys

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Tim Van de Cruys

Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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26 July 2026 in International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)
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MTMaria Mihaela Trusca
Maria Mihaela Trusca
MDMark Depauw
Mark Depauw
MFMargherita Fantoli
Margherita Fantoli
VSViolet Soen
Violet Soen
IDIne de Daele
Ine de Daele
TCTim Van de Cruys
Tim Van de Cruys

7 October 2025 in arXiv
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FZFan Zhou
Fan Zhou
CTChang Tian
Chang Tian
TCTim Van de Cruys
Tim Van de Cruys
Generating stylistic text with specific attributes is a key problem in controllable text generation. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for both visual and textual generation. Existing approaches can be broadly categorized into classifier-free guidance (CFG) and classifier guidance (CG) methods. While CFG effectively preserves semantic content, it often fails to provide effective attribute control. In contrast, CG modifies the denoising trajectory using classifier gradients, enabling better attribute alignment but incurring high computational costs during sampling and suffering from classifier generalization issues. In this work, we propose RegDiff, a regularized diffusion framework that leverages attribute features without requiring a pretrained classifier during sampling, thereby achieving controllable generation with reduced computational costs. Specifically, RegDiff employs a VAE-based encoder--decoder architecture to ensure reconstruction fidelity and a latent diffusion model trained with attribute supervision to enable controllable text generation. Attribute information is injected only during training. Experiments on five datasets spanning multiple stylistic attributes demonstrate that RegDiff outperforms strong baselines in generating stylistic texts. These results validate the effectiveness of RegDiff as an efficient solution for attribute-controllable text diffusion. Our code, datasets, and resources will be released upon publication at https://github.com/xxxx.