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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

Correlation filter (CF) has recently exhibited promising performance in visual object tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Such online learning method heavily depends on the quality of the training-set, yet complicated aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Fan Li , Changhong Fu , Fuling Lin , Yiming Li , Peng Lu

Dataset distillation (DD) entails creating a refined, compact distilled dataset from a large-scale dataset to facilitate efficient training. A significant challenge in DD is the dependency between the distilled dataset and the neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yunlong Zhao , Xiaoheng Deng , Xiu Su , Hongyan Xu , Xiuxing Li , Yijing Liu , Shan You

Diffusion trajectory distillation accelerates sampling by training a student model to approximate the multi-step denoising trajectories of a pretrained teacher model using far fewer steps. Despite strong empirical results, the trade-off…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Weiguo Gao , Ming Li

Masked discrete diffusion is a dominant paradigm for high-quality language modeling where tokens are iteratively corrupted to a mask state, yet its inference efficiency is bottlenecked by the lack of deterministic sampling tools. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Guinan Chen , Xunpeng Huang , Ying Sun , Shijin Wang , Yanyong Zhang , Chao Wang

In recent years, the rapid expansion of dataset sizes and the increasing complexity of deep learning models have significantly escalated the demand for computational resources, both for data storage and model training. Dataset distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Zhe Li , Hadrien Reynaud , Mischa Dombrowski , Sarah Cechnicka , Franciskus Xaverius Erick , Bernhard Kainz

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) facilitates efficient inference by distilling multi-step diffusion models into few-step variants. Concurrently, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a vital tool for aligning generative models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Dengyang Jiang , Dongyang Liu , Zanyi Wang , Qilong Wu , Liuzhuozheng Li , Hengzhuang Li , Xin Jin , David Liu , Changsheng Lu , Zhen Li , Bo Zhang , Mengmeng Wang , Steven Hoi , Peng Gao , Harry Yang

This paper presents SANA-Sprint, an efficient diffusion model for ultra-fast text-to-image (T2I) generation. SANA-Sprint is built on a pre-trained foundation model and augmented with hybrid distillation, dramatically reducing inference…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junsong Chen , Shuchen Xue , Yuyang Zhao , Jincheng Yu , Sayak Paul , Junyu Chen , Han Cai , Song Han , Enze Xie

Guidance provides a simple and effective framework for posterior sampling by steering the generation process towards the desired distribution. When modeling discrete data, existing approaches mostly focus on guidance with the first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhengyan Wan , Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Fang Fang , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Dataset Distillation (DD) seeks to create a condensed dataset that, when used to train a model, enables the model to achieve performance similar to that of a model trained on the entire original dataset. It relieves the model training from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Chuhao Zhou , Chenxi Jiang , Yi Xie , Haozhi Cao , Jianfei Yang

Diffusion and flow models achieve high generative quality but remain computationally expensive due to slow multi-step sampling. Distillation methods accelerate them by training fast student generators, yet most existing objectives lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yuanzhi Zhu , Eleftherios Tsonis , Lucas Degeorge , Vicky Kalogeiton

Score distillation sampling~(SDS) has been widely adopted to overcome the absence of unseen views in reconstructing 3D objects from a \textbf{single} image. It leverages pre-trained 2D diffusion models as teacher to guide the reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Xuanyu Yi , Zike Wu , Qingshan Xu , Pan Zhou , Joo-Hwee Lim , Hanwang Zhang

Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown incredible performance on text-to-image generation. Since text-to-image generation often requires models to generate visual concepts with fine-grained details and attributes specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Pradyumna Narayana , Sugato Basu , William Yang Wang , Xin Eric Wang

With the exponential increase in image data, training an image restoration model is laborious. Dataset distillation is a potential solution to this problem, yet current distillation techniques are a blank canvas in the field of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhuoran Zheng , Xin Su , Chen Wu , Xiuyi Jia

Recent hybrid video generation models combine autoregressive temporal dynamics with diffusion-based spatial denoising, but their sequential, iterative nature leads to error accumulation and long inference times. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yongqi Yang , Huayang Huang , Xu Peng , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yu Wu

Knowledge distillation can lead to deploy-friendly networks against the plagued computational complexity problem, but previous methods neglect the feature hierarchy in detectors. Motivated by this, we propose a general framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yangyang Qin , Hefei Ling , Zhenghai He , Yuxuan Shi , Lei Wu

Dataset distillation synthesizes a small dataset such that a model trained on this set approximates the performance of the original dataset. Recent studies on dataset distillation focused primarily on the design of the optimization process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Shiguang Wang , Zhongyu Zhang , Jian Cheng

The slow inference process of image diffusion models significantly degrades interactive user experiences. To address this, we introduce Diffusion Preview, a novel paradigm employing rapid, low-step sampling to generate preliminary outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fu-Yun Wang , Hao Zhou , Liangzhe Yuan , Sanghyun Woo , Boqing Gong , Bohyung Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Han Zhang , Yukun Zhu , Ting Liu , Long Zhao

Dataset distillation aims to synthesize small datasets with little information loss from original large-scale ones for reducing storage and training costs. Recent state-of-the-art methods mainly constrain the sample synthesis process by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yanqing Liu , Jianyang Gu , Kai Wang , Zheng Zhu , Wei Jiang , Yang You

Distilled diffusion models generate images in far fewer timesteps but suffer from reduced sample diversity when generating multiple outputs from the same prompt. To understand this phenomenon, we first investigate whether distillation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rohit Gandikota , David Bau