AI Reports · Google · 2026-09-29 · Blog / commentary
How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation
Diffusion Controller is a lightweight 'steering damper' network that steers image generation to better match prompts. It can attach to access-restricted, closed-source models and improve image quality without compromising baseline stability. It is presented as a framework that unifies inference-time guidance and fine-tuning, which have previously been treated as separate approaches.