Comparative Study of Classifier-Guided, Conditional and Classifier-Free Diffusion Models for Minecraft Scene Generation
Abstract
Diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful class of generative models, achieving state-of-the-art performance in many image synthesis tasks. While unconditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) can generate high-quality images, they lack the ability to produce outputs aligned with specific user-defined semantics. To enable controllable generation, several conditional extensions have been proposed, including Conditional DDPMs, Classifier-Guided DDPMs, and Classifier-Free DDPMs. However, a systematic comparison of these methods under consistent training and evaluation settings remains limited. In this study, this paper conduct a comprehensive comparative analysis of the three conditional diffusion frameworks within the context of Minecraft scene generation. Using a curated version of the MineRL dataset, this paper train all models under identical architectural and hyperparameter configurations. This paper evaluate their performance using both quantitative metrics—Fréchet Inception Distance (FID), Inception Score (IS), and CLIP-based similarity—and qualitative visual inspection. Our results show that the Conditional DDPM achieves the best overall performance in terms of image quality and semantic alignment, as evidenced by its lowest FID and highest CLIP scores. The Classifier-Free model demonstrates slightly better sample diversity, while the Classifier-Guided model underperforms due to instability in gradient-based guidance. Visual comparisons also…
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