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Diffusion distillation has dramatically accelerated class-conditional image synthesis, but its applicability to open-ended text-to-image (T2I) generation is still unclear. We present the first systematic study that adapts and compares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yifan Pu , Yizeng Han , Zhiwei Tang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Gao Huang

Diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation with its exceptional quality and creativity. However, its multi-step sampling process is known to be slow, often requiring tens of inference steps to obtain satisfactory results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xingchao Liu , Xiwen Zhang , Jianzhu Ma , Jian Peng , Qiang Liu

Deep generative models have shown impressive results in text-to-image synthesis. However, current text-to-image models often generate images that are inadequately aligned with text prompts. We propose a fine-tuning method for aligning such…

State-of-the-art text-to-image models produce high-quality images, but inference remains expensive as generation requires several sequential ODE or denoising steps. Native one-step models aim to reduce this cost by mapping noise to an image…

Visual-prompt-guided edit transfer aims to learn image transformations directly from example pairs, offering more precise and controllable editing than purely text-driven approaches. However, existing diffusion transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Lan Chen , Qi Mao , Yiren Song , Yuchao Gu , Siwei Ma

Diffusion distillation models effectively accelerate reverse sampling by compressing the process into fewer steps. However, these models still exhibit a performance gap compared to their pre-trained diffusion model counterparts, exacerbated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Geon Yeong Park , Sang Wan Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation, but their real-world applications are hampered by the extensive time needed for hundreds of diffusion steps. Although progressive distillation has been proposed to speed up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yifan Zhang , Bryan Hooi

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance in image synthesis, while the text interface does not always provide fine-grained control over certain image factors. For instance, changing a single token in the text can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Chen Wu , Fernando De la Torre

Discrete diffusion models excel at visual synthesis but rely on slow, iterative decoding. Existing single-step distillation methods attempt to bypass this bottleneck, either by training auxiliary score networks that effectively double…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chaoyang Wang , Yunhai Tong

We present Diffusion-KTO, a novel approach for aligning text-to-image diffusion models by formulating the alignment objective as the maximization of expected human utility. Since this objective applies to each generation independently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Akash Gokul , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka

Users often possess a clear visual intent but struggle to articulate it precisely in language. This intention-expression gap makes aligning generated images with latent visual preferences a fundamental challenge in text-to-image diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wenxi Wang , Hongbin Liu , Mingqian Li , Junyan Yuan , Junqi Zhang

Accelerating diffusion model sampling is crucial for efficient AIGC deployment. While diffusion distillation methods -- based on distribution matching and trajectory matching -- reduce sampling to as few as one step, they fall short on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Jiacheng Sun , Yujun Cai , Jing Tang

Text-to-image diffusion model alignment is critical for improving the alignment between the generated images and human preferences. While training-based methods are constrained by high computational costs and dataset requirements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xin Xie , Dong Gong

One-step generators distilled from Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) compress multiple sampling steps into a single forward pass, enabling efficient text and image synthesis. However, they suffer two key limitations: they inherit modeling bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuanzhi Zhu , Xi Wang , Stéphane Lathuilière , Vicky Kalogeiton

Diffusion models have made substantial advances in image generation, yet models trained on large, unfiltered datasets often yield outputs misaligned with human preferences. Numerous methods have been proposed to fine-tune pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Fu-Yun Wang , Yunhao Shui , Jingtan Piao , Keqiang Sun , Hongsheng Li

Diffusion models have become a central paradigm for image and multimodal generation, yet their deployment raises persistent questions about alignment, safety, preference satisfaction, and robustness to misuse. This survey reviews recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Preeti Lamba , Kiran Ravish , Ankita Kushwaha , Pawan Kumar

Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models such as Stable Diffusion and Imagen have made significant progress in generating high-resolution images based on text descriptions. However, many generated images still suffer from issues such as…

Text-to-motion generation, which synthesizes 3D human motions from text inputs, holds immense potential for applications in gaming, film, and robotics. Recently, diffusion-based methods have been shown to generate more diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wanjiang Weng , Xiaofeng Tan , Junbo Wang , Guo-Sen Xie , Pan Zhou , Hongsong Wang

Large-scale diffusion-based generative models have led to breakthroughs in text-conditioned high-resolution image synthesis. Starting from random noise, such text-to-image diffusion models gradually synthesize images in an iterative fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yogesh Balaji , Seungjun Nah , Xun Huang , Arash Vahdat , Jiaming Song , Qinsheng Zhang , Karsten Kreis , Miika Aittala , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine , Bryan Catanzaro , Tero Karras , Ming-Yu Liu

While diffusion distillation has enabled one-step generation through methods like Variational Score Distillation, adapting distilled models to emerging new controls -- such as novel structural constraints or latest user preferences --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Yifan Song , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Jing Tang