Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models capable of producing high-quality contents such as images, videos, and audio, demonstrating their potential to revolutionize digital content creation. However, these capabilities come at the cost of their significant computational resources and lengthy generation time, underscoring the critical need to develop efficient techniques for practical deployment. In this survey, we provide a systematic and comprehensive review of research on efficient diffusion models. We organize the literature in a taxonomy consisting of three main categories, covering distinct yet interconnected efficient diffusion model topics from algorithm-level, system-level, and framework perspective, respectively. We have also created a GitHub repository where we organize the papers featured in this survey at https://github.com/AIoT-MLSys-Lab/Efficient-Diffusion-Model-Survey. We hope our survey can serve as a valuable resource to help researchers and practitioners gain a systematic understanding of efficient diffusion model research and inspire them to contribute to this important and exciting field.
@article{arxiv.2502.06805,
title = {Efficient Diffusion Models: A Survey},
author = {Hui Shen and Jingxuan Zhang and Boning Xiong and Rui Hu and Shoufa Chen and Zhongwei Wan and Xin Wang and Yu Zhang and Zixuan Gong and Guangyin Bao and Chaofan Tao and Yongfeng Huang and Ye Yuan and Mi Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06805},
year = {2025}
}
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Published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR-2025)