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Large-scale visual learning is increasingly limited by training cost. Existing knowledge distillation methods transfer from a stronger teacher to a weaker student for compression or final-accuracy improvement. We instead investigate…

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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation, yet their deployment remains constrained by the heavy computational cost and the need for numerous inference steps. Previous efforts on fewer-step distillation attempt…

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Deep learning models are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Though adversarial training can enhance model robustness, typical approaches are computationally expensive. Recent works proposed to transfer the robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Tao Bai , Jinnan Chen , Jun Zhao , Bihan Wen , Xudong Jiang , Alex Kot

Knowledge distillation is one of the most popular and effective techniques for knowledge transfer, model compression and semi-supervised learning. Most existing distillation approaches require the access to original or augmented training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Liangchen Luo , Mark Sandler , Zi Lin , Andrey Zhmoginov , Andrew Howard

Large pretrained diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of generated videos, and yet their use in real-time streaming remains limited. Autoregressive models offer a natural framework for sequential frame synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jinxiu Liu , Xuanming Liu , Kangfu Mei , Yandong Wen , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Weiyang Liu

Diffusion models have demonstrated excellent performance for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), albeit at high computational costs. Most existing methods are trying to derive one-step diffusion models from multi-step counterparts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jianze Li , Jiezhang Cao , Zichen Zou , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Yulun Zhang , Yong Guo , Xiaokang Yang

Dataset distillation seeks to synthesize a highly compact dataset that achieves performance comparable to the original dataset on downstream tasks. For the classification task that use pre-trained self-supervised models as backbones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qianxin Xia , Jiawei Du , Xin Zhang , Yuhan Zhang , Jielei Wang , Guoming Lu

Advanced change detection techniques primarily target image pairs of equal and high quality. However, variations in imaging conditions and platforms frequently lead to image pairs with distinct qualities: one image being high-quality, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chao Pang , Xingxing Weng , Jiang Wu , Qiang Wang , Gui-Song Xia

Dataset distillation has emerged as an effective strategy, significantly reducing training costs and facilitating more efficient model deployment. Recent advances have leveraged generative models to distill datasets by capturing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago , Praveen Tirupattur , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Gaowen Liu , Mubarak Shah

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable success of deep learning in remote sensing image interpretation, driven by the availability of large-scale benchmark datasets. However, this reliance on massive training data also brings two major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yonghao Xu , Pedram Ghamisi , Qihao Weng

While diffusion distillation has enabled one-step generation through methods like Variational Score Distillation, adapting distilled models to emerging new controls -- such as novel structural constraints or latest user preferences --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Yifan Song , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Jing Tang

Diffusion models deliver high-fidelity synthesis but remain slow due to iterative sampling. We empirically observe there exists feature invariance in deterministic sampling, and present InvarDiff, a training-free acceleration method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zihao Wu

Diffusion distillation has dramatically accelerated class-conditional image synthesis, but its applicability to open-ended text-to-image (T2I) generation is still unclear. We present the first systematic study that adapts and compares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yifan Pu , Yizeng Han , Zhiwei Tang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Gao Huang

Resource-constrained perception systems such as edge computing and vision-for-robotics require vision models to be both accurate and lightweight in computation and memory usage. While knowledge distillation is a proven strategy to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shengcao Cao , Mengtian Li , James Hays , Deva Ramanan , Yi-Xiong Wang , Liang-Yan Gui

Recent progress in accelerating text-to-image diffusion models enables high-fidelity synthesis within a single denoising step. However, customizing the fast one-step models remains challenging, as existing methods consistently fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yixiong Yang , Tao Wu , Senmao Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Kai Wang

Large facial variations are the main challenge in face recognition. To this end, previous variation-specific methods make full use of task-related prior to design special network losses, which are typically not general among different tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yuge Huang , Pengcheng Shen , Ying Tai , Shaoxin Li , Xiaoming Liu , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji

Leveraging the powerful capabilities of diffusion models has yielded quite effective results in medical image segmentation tasks. However, existing methods typically transfer the original training process directly without specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Qilin Huang , Tianyu Lin , Zhiguang Chen , Fudan Zheng

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-fidelity content but suffer from slow, iterative sampling, resulting in high latency that limits their use in interactive applications. We introduce DRiffusion, a parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Runsheng Bai , Chengyu Zhang , Yangdong Deng

Multi-modality image fusion aims to synthesize a single, comprehensive image from multiple source inputs. Traditional approaches, such as CNNs and GANs, offer efficiency but struggle to handle low-quality or complex inputs. Recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ran Zhang , Xuanhua He , Ke Cao , Liu Liu , Li Zhang , Man Zhou , Jie Zhang

Knowledge distillation aims to compress a powerful yet cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model without much sacrifice of performance. For this purpose, various approaches have been proposed over the past few years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Hailin Zhang , Can Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen