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Diffusion models have shown strong performance in speech enhancement, but their real-time applicability has been limited by multi-step iterative sampling. Consistency distillation has recently emerged as a promising alternative by…

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While diffusion models have achieved great success in the field of video generation, this progress is accompanied by a rapidly escalating computational burden. Among the existing acceleration methods, Feature Caching is popular due to its…

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Diffusion models have recently advanced Combinatorial Optimization (CO) as a powerful backbone for neural solvers. However, their iterative sampling process requiring denoising across multiple noise levels incurs substantial overhead. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yang Li , Jinpei Guo , Runzhong Wang , Hongyuan Zha , Junchi Yan

Diffusion models have shown tremendous results in image generation. However, due to the iterative nature of the diffusion process and its reliance on classifier-free guidance, inference times are slow. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Ting Hsiao , Siavash Khodadadeh , Kevin Duarte , Wei-An Lin , Hui Qu , Mingi Kwon , Ratheesh Kalarot

Recent advances in fast sampling methods for diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential to accelerate generation on image modalities. We apply these methods to 3-dimensional molecular conformations by building on the recently…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-23 Romain Lacombe , Neal Vaidya

Diffusion models have found widespread adoption in various areas. However, their sampling process is slow because it requires hundreds to thousands of network evaluations to emulate a continuous process defined by differential equations. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hongkai Zheng , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

Consistency models have been proposed for fast generative modeling, achieving results competitive with diffusion and flow models. However, these methods exhibit inherent instability and limited reproducibility when training from scratch,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Youngjoong Kim , Duhoe Kim , Woosung Kim , Jaesik Park

Diffusion models have shown remarkable success across generative tasks, yet their high computational demands challenge deployment on resource-limited platforms. This paper investigates a critical question for compute-optimal diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zhenbang Du , Yonggan Fu , Lifu Wang , Jiayi Qian , Xiao Luo , Yingyan , Lin

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in the field of video generation. However, their iterative denoising nature requires a large number of inference steps to generate a video, which is slow and computationally expensive. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haiyu Zhang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Xihui Liu , Yunhong Wang , Yu Qiao

Diffusion models are powerful generative models but suffer from slow sampling, often taking 1000 sequential denoising steps for one sample. As a result, considerable efforts have been directed toward reducing the number of denoising steps,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Andy Shih , Suneel Belkhale , Stefano Ermon , Dorsa Sadigh , Nima Anari

Distilling state-of-the-art transformer models into lightweight student models is an effective way to reduce computation cost at inference time. The student models are typically compact transformers with fewer parameters, while expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Qinyuan Ye , Madian Khabsa , Mike Lewis , Sinong Wang , Xiang Ren , Aaron Jaech

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,…

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Recently it has been shown that using diffusion models for inverse problems can lead to remarkable results. However, these approaches require a closed-form expression of the degradation model and can not support complex degradations. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Di You , Andreas Floros , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly applied to real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) task. Given the iterative refinement nature of diffusion models, most existing approaches are computationally expensive.…

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Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have emerged as a powerful class of deep generative models, achieving remarkable performance in image synthesis tasks. However, these models face challenges in terms of widespread adoption due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Kidist Amde Mekonnen , Nicola Dall'Asen , Paolo Rota

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu

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

We propose a scalable tensorization framework for neural network compression based on slice-wise feature distillation. Unlike conventional tensor decomposition methods that rely on costly global finetuning, our approach decomposes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Safa Hamreras , Sukhbinder Singh , Román Orús

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-resolution, realistic images across diverse natural distributions. However, their performance heavily relies on high-quality training data, making it challenging to learn…

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