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Diffusion model distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for creating efficient few-step and single-step generators. Among these, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) and its variants stand out for their impressive performance,…

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Diffusion distillation has emerged as a promising strategy for accelerating text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models by distilling a pretrained score network into a one- or few-step generator. While existing methods have made notable progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mingyuan Zhou , Yi Gu , Zhendong Wang

Generative retrieval is a promising new paradigm in text retrieval that generates identifier strings of relevant passages as the retrieval target. This paradigm leverages powerful generative language models, distinct from traditional sparse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Yongqi Li , Zhen Zhang , Wenjie Wang , Liqiang Nie , Wenjie Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for conditional generation and improving sample quality in continuous diffusion models, and its extensions to discrete diffusion has recently started to be investigated. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Kevin Rojas , Ye He , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Yuki Mitsufuji , Molei Tao

Data heterogeneity presents significant challenges for federated learning (FL). Recently, dataset distillation techniques have been introduced, and performed at the client level, to attempt to mitigate some of these challenges. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yuqi Jia , Saeed Vahidian , Jingwei Sun , Jianyi Zhang , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yiran Chen

Recent advances in few-step diffusion distillation have enabled efficient image generation, yet aligning these models with human preferences remains challenging. We propose Reward-Tilted Distribution Matching Distillation (RTDMD), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yushi Huang , Xiangxin Zhou , Ruoyu Wang , Chi Zhang , Jun Zhang , Tianyu Pang

Counterfactual generation aims to simulate realistic hypothetical outcomes under causal interventions. Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for this task, combining DDIM inversion with conditional generation and classifier-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tian Xia , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Rajat R Rasal , Avinash Kori , Raghav Mehta , Ben Glocker

Latent Consistency Distillation (LCD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient text-to-image synthesis. By distilling a latent consistency model (LCM) from a pre-trained teacher latent diffusion model (LDM), LCD facilitates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jiachen Li , Weixi Feng , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

We introduce a novel approach to large language model (LLM) distillation by formulating it as a constrained reinforcement learning problem. While recent work has begun exploring the integration of task-specific rewards into distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Matthieu Zimmer , Xiaotong Ji , Tu Nguyen , Haitham Bou Ammar

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has been a default technique in various visual generative models, yet it requires inference from both conditional and unconditional models during sampling. We propose to build visual models that are free from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Huayu Chen , Kai Jiang , Kaiwen Zheng , Jianfei Chen , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for improving the perceptual quality of samples from conditional diffusion models. It operates by linearly combining conditional and unconditional score estimates using a guidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Alexandre Galashov , Ashwini Pokle , Arnaud Doucet , Arthur Gretton , Mauricio Delbracio , Valentin De Bortoli

Human preference alignment presents a critical yet underexplored challenge for diffusion models in text-to-3D generation. Existing solutions typically require task-specific fine-tuning, posing significant hurdles in data-scarce 3D domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Shuyuan Tu , Haidong Cao , Sicheng Xie , Daoguo Dong , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

While classifier-free guidance (CFG) is essential for conditional diffusion models, it doubles the number of neural function evaluations (NFEs) per inference step. To mitigate this inefficiency, we introduce adapter guidance distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Cristian Perez Jensen , Seyedmorteza Sadat

Over the past year, the emergence of transfer learning with large-scale language models (LM) has led to dramatic performance improvements across a broad range of natural language understanding tasks. However, the size and memory footprint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , George Han , Celine Liang

Supervised fine-tuning with expert demonstrations often produces models that imitate outputs without internalizing the reasoning processes needed for robust generalization. While critique-based approaches show promise, training models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Berkcan Kapusuzoglu , Supriyo Chakraborty , Zain Sarwar , Chia-Hsuan Lee , Sambit Sahu

Obtaining multiple meaningfully diverse, high quality samples from Large Language Models for a fixed prompt remains an open challenge. Current methods for increasing diversity often only operate at the token-level, paraphrasing the same…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Eltayeb Ahmed , Uljad Berdica , Martha Elliott , Danijela Horak , Jakob N. Foerster

Over the past year, the field of Natural Language Generation (NLG) has experienced an exponential surge, largely due to the introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs). These models have exhibited the most effective performance in a range…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Lasal Jayawardena , Prasan Yapa

We address the problem of fine-tuning diffusion models for reward-guided generation in biomolecular design. While diffusion models have proven highly effective in modeling complex, high-dimensional data distributions, real-world…

Knowledge distillation is an effective method to transfer the knowledge from the cumbersome teacher model to the lightweight student model. Online knowledge distillation uses the ensembled prediction results of multiple student models as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Zheng Li , Ying Huang , Defang Chen , Tianren Luo , Ning Cai , Zhigeng Pan

Recent advances in diffusion generative models have yielded remarkable progress. While the quality of generated content continues to improve, these models have grown considerably in size and complexity. This increasing computational burden…

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