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Consistency models (CMs) are a powerful class of diffusion-based generative models optimized for fast sampling. Most existing CMs are trained using discretized timesteps, which introduce additional hyperparameters and are prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Cheng Lu , Yang Song

Diffusion models achieve superior generation quality but suffer from slow generation speed due to the iterative nature of denoising. In contrast, consistency models, a new generative family, achieve competitive performance with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Fu-Yun Wang , Zhengyang Geng , Hongsheng Li

Consistency Models (CM) (Song et al., 2023) accelerate score-based diffusion model sampling at the cost of sample quality but lack a natural way to trade-off quality for speed. To address this limitation, we propose Consistency Trajectory…

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

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

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

Flow map models such as Consistency Models (CM) and Mean Flow (MF) enable few-step generation by learning the long jump of the ODE solution of diffusion models, yet training remains unstable, sensitive to hyperparameters, and costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zheyuan Hu , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

We propose a physics-aware Consistency Training (CT) method that accelerates sampling in Diffusion Models with physical constraints. Our approach leverages a two-stage strategy: (1) learning the noise-to-data mapping via CT, and (2)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Che-Chia Chang , Chen-Yang Dai , Te-Sheng Lin , Ming-Chih Lai , Chieh-Hsin Lai

With diffusion and flow matching models achieving state-of-the-art generating performance, the interest of the community now turned to reducing the inference time without sacrificing sample quality. Consistency Models (CMs), which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Beomsu Kim , Byunghee Cha , Jong Chul Ye

Consistency models imitate the multi-step sampling of score-based diffusion in a single forward pass of a neural network. They can be learned in two ways: consistency distillation and consistency training. The former relies on the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Thibaut Issenhuth , Sangchul Lee , Ludovic Dos Santos , Jean-Yves Franceschi , Chansoo Kim , Alain Rakotomamonjy

Latent Diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally intensive and leads to slow generation. Inspired by Consistency Models (song…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

Despite recent advancement in 3D molecule conformation generation driven by diffusion models, its high computational cost in iterative diffusion/denoising process limits its application. In this paper, an equivariant consistency model…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-27 Zhiguang Fan , Yuedong Yang , Mingyuan Xu , Hongming Chen

Diffusion models (DMs) are a powerful generative framework that have attracted significant attention in recent years. However, the high computational cost of training DMs limits their practical applications. In this paper, we start with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tianshuo Xu , Peng Mi , Ruilin Wang , Yingcong Chen

The slow iterative sampling nature remains a major bottleneck for the practical deployment of diffusion and flow-based generative models. While consistency models (CMs) represent a state-of-the-art distillation-based approach for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Linwei Dong , Ruoyu Guo , Ge Bai , Zehuan Yuan , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Diffusion Models (DM) and Consistency Models (CM) are two types of popular generative models with good generation quality on various tasks. When training DM and CM, intermediate weight checkpoints are not fully utilized and only the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Enshu Liu , Junyi Zhu , Zinan Lin , Xuefei Ning , Shuaiqi Wang , Matthew B. Blaschko , Sergey Yekhanin , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Although diffusion models can generate remarkably high-quality samples, they are intrinsically bottlenecked by their expensive iterative sampling procedure. Consistency models (CMs) have recently emerged as a promising diffusion model…

Consistency Models (CMs) have made significant progress in accelerating the generation of diffusion models. However, their application to high-resolution, text-conditioned image generation in the latent space remains unsatisfactory. In this…

In medical image segmentation tasks, diffusion models have shown significant potential. However, mainstream diffusion models suffer from drawbacks such as multiple sampling times and slow prediction results. Recently, consistency models, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Kejia Zhang , Lan Zhang , Haiwei Pan , Baolong Yu

Consistency Models (CMs) have showed a promise in creating visual content efficiently and with high quality. However, the way to add new conditional controls to the pretrained CMs has not been explored. In this technical report, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jie Xiao , Kai Zhu , Han Zhang , Zhiheng Liu , Yujun Shen , Yu Liu , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Consistency models are a new family of generative models capable of producing high-quality samples in either a single step or multiple steps. Recently, consistency models have demonstrated impressive performance, achieving results on par…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Quan Dao , Khanh Doan , Di Liu , Trung Le , Dimitris Metaxas
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