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Diffusion models excel at producing high-quality samples but naively require hundreds of iterations, prompting multiple attempts to distill the generation process into a faster network. However, many existing approaches suffer from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zhengyang Geng , Ashwini Pokle , J. Zico Kolter

Diffusion models excel at generating diverse and multimodal trajectories for robotic planning, yet their iterative denoising process introduces latency that is incompatible with high-frequency closed-loop control. To address this problem,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lei Zheng , Peiqi Yu , Zengqi Peng , Changliu Liu , Armin Lederer

Data-free knowledge distillation is a challenging model lightweight task for scenarios in which the original dataset is not available. Previous methods require a lot of extra computational costs to update one or more generators and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yuzheng Wang , Zuhao Ge , Zhaoyu Chen , Xian Liu , Chuangjia Ma , Yunquan Sun , Lizhe Qi

Significant advancements in image generation have been made with diffusion models. Nevertheless, when contrasted with previous generative models, diffusion models face substantial computational overhead, leading to failure in real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Linfeng Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

The proliferation of diffusion models trained on web-scale, provenance-uncertain image collections has made it essential, yet technically unresolved, to determine whether a model has learned from specific copyrighted data without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Muxing Li , Zesheng Ye , Sharon Li , Andy Song , Guangquan Zhang , Feng Liu

Knowledge distillation, the technique of transferring knowledge from large, complex models to smaller ones, marks a pivotal step towards efficient AI deployment. Distilling Step-by-Step~(DSS), a novel method utilizing chain-of-thought~(CoT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xin Chen , Hanxian Huang , Yanjun Gao , Yi Wang , Jishen Zhao , Ke Ding

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving high-quality and fast image generation that aligns with complex human preferences. While recent advancements in diffusion models and distillation have enabled rapid generation, the effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Weijian Luo , Kenji Kawaguchi , Jing Tang

Denoising Diffusion models have demonstrated their proficiency for generative sampling. However, generating good samples often requires many iterations. Consequently, techniques such as binary time-distillation (BTD) have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 David Berthelot , Arnaud Autef , Jierui Lin , Dian Ang Yap , Shuangfei Zhai , Siyuan Hu , Daniel Zheng , Walter Talbott , Eric Gu

Discrete diffusion models (DDMs) have shown powerful generation ability for discrete data modalities like text and molecules. However, their practical application is hindered by inefficient sampling, requiring a large number of sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Feiyang Fu , Tongxian Guo , Zhaoqiang Liu

Large generative diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation and offer immense potential for conditional generation tasks such as image enhancement, restoration, editing, and compositing. However, their widespread adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kangfu Mei , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Zhengzhong Tu , Vishal M. Patel , Peyman Milanfar

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong performance in sampling and editing multi-modal data with high generation quality, yet they suffer from the iterative generation process which is computationally expensive and slow. In addition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xinrui Zu , Qian Tao

Large foundation models trained on extensive datasets demonstrate strong zero-shot capabilities in various domains. To replicate their success when data and model size are constrained, knowledge distillation has become an established tool…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Niclas Popp , Kevin Alexander Laube , Matthias Hein , Lukas Schott

Data-free knowledge distillation aims to learn a compact student network from a pre-trained large teacher network without using the original training data of the teacher network. Existing collection-based and generation-based methods train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jialiang Tang , Shuo Chen , Chen Gong

While diffusion models effectively generate remarkable synthetic images, a key limitation is the inference inefficiency, requiring numerous sampling steps. To accelerate inference and maintain high-quality synthesis, teacher-student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Chi Hong , Jiyue Huang , Robert Birke , Dick Epema , Stefanie Roos , Lydia Y. Chen

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

Recent approaches have shown promises distilling diffusion models into efficient one-step generators. Among them, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) produces one-step generators that match their teacher in distribution, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Taesung Park , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman

Controllable music generation methods are critical for human-centered AI-based music creation, but are currently limited by speed, quality, and control design trade-offs. Diffusion Inference-Time T-optimization (DITTO), in particular,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Zachary Novack , Julian McAuley , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Nicholas Bryan

Text-to-3D generation has shown rapid progress in recent days with the advent of score distillation, a methodology of using pretrained text-to-2D diffusion models to optimize neural radiance field (NeRF) in the zero-shot setting. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Junyoung Seo , Wooseok Jang , Min-Seop Kwak , Hyeonsu Kim , Jaehoon Ko , Junho Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Seungryong Kim

Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion (SD), offer the ability to generate high-resolution images with diverse features, but they come at a significant computational and memory cost. In classifier-free guided diffusion models, prolonged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Pareesa Ameneh Golnari

Editing images with diffusion models under strict training-free constraints remains a significant challenge. While recent optimisation-based methods achieve strong zero-shot edits from text, they struggle to preserve identity and capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Niki Foteinopoulou , Ignas Budvytis , Stephan Liwicki