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Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are emerging powerful generative models. Despite their high-quality generation performance, DPMs still suffer from their slow sampling as they generally need hundreds or thousands of sequential function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Cheng Lu , Yuhao Zhou , Fan Bao , Jianfei Chen , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

We introduce the Fixed Point Diffusion Model (FPDM), a novel approach to image generation that integrates the concept of fixed point solving into the framework of diffusion-based generative modeling. Our approach embeds an implicit fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Xingjian Bai , Luke Melas-Kyriazi

It is currently difficult to distill discrete diffusion models. In contrast, continuous diffusion literature has many distillation approaches methods that can reduce sampling steps to a handful. Our method, Discrete Moment Matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Emiel Hoogeboom , David Ruhe , Jonathan Heek , Thomas Mensink , Tim Salimans

Learning generative models directly from corrupted observations is a long standing challenge across natural and scientific domains. We introduce Restoration Score Distillation (RSD), a unified framework for learning high fidelity, one step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yasi Zhang , Tianyu Chen , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Mingyuan Zhou , Oscar Leong

While deep learning techniques have proven successful in image-related tasks, the exponentially increased data storage and computation costs become a significant challenge. Dataset distillation addresses these challenges by synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Zhe Li , Weitong Zhang , Sarah Cechnicka , Bernhard Kainz

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have achieved impressive success in high-resolution image synthesis, especially in recent large-scale text-to-image generation applications. An essential technique for improving the sample quality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Cheng Lu , Yuhao Zhou , Fan Bao , Jianfei Chen , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

Transformer-based architectures have become the de-facto standard models for diverse vision tasks owing to their superior performance. As the size of the models continues to scale up, model distillation becomes extremely important in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Cheng Han , Qifan Wang , Sohail A. Dianat , Majid Rabbani , Raghuveer M. Rao , Yi Fang , Qiang Guan , Lifu Huang , Dongfang Liu

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have achieved considerable success in generation tasks. As sampling from DPMs is equivalent to solving diffusion SDE or ODE which is time-consuming, numerous fast sampling methods built upon improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Shuchen Xue , Mingyang Yi , Weijian Luo , Shifeng Zhang , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Zhi-Ming Ma

Recent advances in diffusion and flow-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in image restoration tasks, achieving superior perceptual quality compared to traditional deep learning approaches. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuanzhi Zhu , Ruiqing Wang , Shilin Lu , Junnan Li , Hanshu Yan , Kai Zhang

Diffusion models are relatively easy to train but require many steps to generate samples. Consistency models are far more difficult to train, but generate samples in a single step. In this paper we propose Multistep Consistency Models: A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jonathan Heek , Emiel Hoogeboom , Tim Salimans

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

Training machine learning models on massive datasets is expensive and time-consuming. Dataset distillation addresses this by creating a small synthetic dataset that achieves the same performance as the full dataset. Recent methods use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago , Mubarak Shah

Diffusion-based image compression methods have achieved notable progress, delivering high perceptual quality at low bitrates. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant inference latency and heavy computational overhead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiwen Jia , Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Chenyang Ge

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in video generation; however, the high computational cost of the denoising process remains a major bottleneck. Existing approaches have shown promise in reducing the number of diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiao Liang , Yunzhu Zhang , Linchao Zhu

Diffusion models offer superior generation quality at the expense of extensive sampling steps. Distillation methods, with Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) as a popular example, can mitigate this issue, but performance degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Xu Wang , Zexian Li , Litong Gong , Tiezheng Ge , Zhijie Deng

The inference latency of diffusion models remains a critical barrier to their real-time application. While trajectory-based and distribution-based step distillation methods offer solutions, they present a fundamental trade-off.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Hanbo Cheng , Peng Wang , Kaixiang Lei , Qi Li , Zhen Zou , Pengfei Hu , Jun Du

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional performances in various fields of generative modeling, but suffer from slow sampling speed due to their iterative nature. While this issue is being addressed in continuous domains, discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Satoshi Hayakawa , Yuhta Takida , Masaaki Imaizumi , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

Diffusion models excel at generative modeling (e.g., text-to-image) but sampling requires multiple denoising network passes, limiting practicality. Efforts such as progressive distillation or consistency distillation have shown promise by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Risheek Garrepalli , Shweta Mahajan , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Diffusion and flow matching models generate high-fidelity data by simulating paths defined by Ordinary or Stochastic Differential Equations (ODEs/SDEs), starting from a tractable prior distribution. The probability flow ODE formulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Liangyu Yuan , Ruoyu Wang , Tong Zhao , Dingwen Fu , Mingkun Lei , Beier Zhu , Chi Zhang

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