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Significant advances have been made in the sampling efficiency of diffusion models and flow matching models, driven by Consistency Distillation (CD), which trains a student model to mimic the output of a teacher model at a later timestep.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yunpeng Liu , Boxiao Liu , Yi Zhang , Xingzhong Hou , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Haihang You

Consistency distillation methods have demonstrated significant success in accelerating generative tasks of diffusion models. However, since previous consistency distillation methods use simple and straightforward strategies in selecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Cunzheng Wang , Ziyuan Guo , Yuxuan Duan , Huaxia Li , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Denoising diffusion models have been a mainstream approach for image generation, however, training these models often suffers from slow convergence. In this paper, we discovered that the slow convergence is partly due to conflicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Chen Li , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Han Hu , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

In diffusion models, samples are generated through an iterative refinement process, requiring hundreds of sequential model evaluations. Several recent methods have introduced approximations (fewer discretization steps or distillation) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Nikil Roashan Selvam , Amil Merchant , Stefano Ermon

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in high-fidelity image, video, and audio generation, yet inference remains computationally expensive. Nevertheless, current diffusion acceleration methods based on distributed parallelism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Euisoo Jung , Byunghyun Kim , Hyunjin Kim , Seonghye Cho , Jae-Gil Lee

We propose a stochastic optimization method for minimizing loss functions, expressed as an expected value, that adaptively controls the batch size used in the computation of gradient approximations and the step size used to move along such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Achraf Bahamou , Donald Goldfarb

Conditional diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in image manipulation tasks. The general pipeline involves adding noise to the image and then denoising it. However, this method faces a trade-off problem: adding too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Luozhou Wang , Shuai Yang , Shu Liu , Ying-cong Chen

Diffusion models have shown promising generative capabilities across diverse domains, yet aligning their outputs with desired reward functions remains a challenge, particularly in cases where reward functions are non-differentiable. Some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xiner Li , Masatoshi Uehara , Xingyu Su , Gabriele Scalia , Tommaso Biancalani , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Shuiwang Ji

Diffusion- and flow-based models usually allocate compute uniformly across space, updating all patches with the same timestep and number of function evaluations. While convenient, this ignores the heterogeneity of natural images: some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Yusong Li , Pingchuan Ma , Felix Krause , Björn Ommer

The performance of pre-trained masked diffusion models is often constrained by their sampling procedure, which makes decisions irreversible and struggles in low-step generation regimes. We introduce a novel sampling algorithm that works…

Conditional diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in various generative tasks recently, but their training typically relies on large-scale datasets that inevitably contain imprecise information in conditional inputs. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Dong-Dong Wu , Jiacheng Cui , Wei Wang , Zhiqiang Shen , Masashi Sugiyama

Diffusion probabilistic models have generated high quality image synthesis recently. However, one pain point is the notorious inference to gradually obtain clear images with thousands of steps, which is time consuming compared to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Gang Chen

Diffusion models have significantly advanced the fields of image, audio, and video generation, but they depend on an iterative sampling process that causes slow generation. To overcome this limitation, we propose consistency models, a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yang Song , Prafulla Dhariwal , Mark Chen , Ilya Sutskever

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) are generative models showing competitive performance in various domains, including image synthesis and 3D point cloud generation. Sampling from pre-trained DPMs involves multiple neural function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Vinh Tong , Hoang Trung-Dung , Anji Liu , Guy Van den Broeck , Mathias Niepert

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art generative performance across multiple modalities, yet their sampling process remains prohibitively slow due to the need for hundreds of function evaluations. Recent progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Tong Zhao , Mingkun Lei , Liangyu Yuan , Yanming Yang , Chenxi Song , Yang Wang , Beier Zhu , Chi Zhang

We introduce Posterior Distillation Sampling (PDS), a novel optimization method for parametric image editing based on diffusion models. Existing optimization-based methods, which leverage the powerful 2D prior of diffusion models to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Juil Koo , Chanho Park , Minhyuk Sung

There have been many attempts to leverage multiple diffusion models for collaborative generation, extending beyond the original domain. A prominent approach involves synchronizing multiple diffusion trajectories by mixing the estimated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Hyunjun Lee , Hyunsoo Lee , Sookwan Han

Diffusion models suffer from slow sample generation at inference time. Despite recent efforts, improving the sampling efficiency of stochastic samplers for diffusion models remains a promising direction. We propose Splitting Integrators for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Kushagra Pandey , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Model-based reinforcement learning methods often use learning only for the purpose of estimating an approximate dynamics model, offloading the rest of the decision-making work to classical trajectory optimizers. While conceptually simple,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Sergey Levine

Dataset distillation provides an effective approach to reduce memory and computational costs by optimizing a compact dataset that achieves performance comparable to the full original. However, for large-scale datasets and complex deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xinhao Zhong , Shuoyang Sun , Xulin Gu , Zhaoyang Xu , Yaowei Wang , Min Zhang , Bin Chen