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CoDA-Gen: Contrastive-Optimized Diffusion Adaptation for Efficient Few-Shot Image Generation

Chua WL, Afiqah N

2026

Abstract

Despite their success in generating high-quality images, diffusion models encounter significant challenges in data-scarce environments such as few-shot image generation (FSIG). This limitation often leads to issues like mode collapse, poor visual quality, and insufficient diversity. To address these critical problems, we propose CoDA-Gen, a novel framework for Contrastive-Optimized Diffusion Adaptation for Generative Models. CoDA-Gen integrates a lightweight, contrastiveoptimized (CoDA) module into a pre-trained diffusion U-Net, enabling efficient learning and adaptation to the unique feature distributions of a target domain from extremely few samples. Our method leverages a contrastive learning objective to align generated features with those of few-shot target samples, thereby mitigating mode collapse and enhancing both the quality and diversity of generated images. Extensive experiments on MiniImageNet, CIFAR-FS, and CelebA-HQ demonstrate that CoDA-Gen consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving superior FID, IS, LPIPS, and Recall scores. Furthermore, CoDA-Gen exhibits remarkable adaptation efficiency, converging rapidly and highlighting its practical utility for rapid domain specialization.

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