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Recently, a series of diffusion-aware distillation algorithms have emerged to alleviate the computational overhead associated with the multi-step inference process of Diffusion Models (DMs). Current distillation techniques often dichotomize…

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MeanFlow offers a promising framework for one-step generative modeling by directly learning a mean-velocity field, bypassing expensive numerical integration. However, we find that the highly curved generative trajectories of existing models…

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Step distillation has become a leading technique for accelerating diffusion models, among which Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) and Consistency Distillation are two representative paradigms. While consistency methods enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tao Liu , Hao Yan , Mengting Chen , Taihang Hu , Zhengrong Yue , Zihao Pan , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Zheng , Yaxing Wang

Recent progress in text-to-3D generation has been achieved through the utilization of score distillation methods: they make use of the pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models by distilling via the diffusion model training…

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Generating high-dimensional visual modalities is a computationally intensive task. A common solution is progressive generation, where the outputs are synthesized in a coarse-to-fine spectral autoregressive manner. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Moayed Haji-Ali , Willi Menapace , Ivan Skorokhodov , Arpit Sahni , Sergey Tulyakov , Vicente Ordonez , Aliaksandr Siarohin

Iterative generative models, such as noise conditional score networks and denoising diffusion probabilistic models, produce high quality samples by gradually denoising an initial noise vector. However, their denoising process has many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Eric Luhman , Troy Luhman

Recent advancements in latent diffusion models (LDMs) have markedly enhanced text-to-audio generation, yet their iterative sampling processes impose substantial computational demands, limiting practical deployment. While recent methods…

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Distillation addresses the slow sampling problem in diffusion models by creating models with smaller size or fewer steps that approximate the behavior of high-step teachers. In this work, we propose a reinforcement learning based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Amirhossein Tighkhorshid , Zahra Dehghanian , Gholamali Aminian , Chengchun Shi , Hamid R. Rabiee

While text-to-video diffusion models have made significant strides, many still face challenges in generating videos with temporal consistency. Within diffusion frameworks, guidance techniques have proven effective in enhancing output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyelin Nam , Jaemin Kim , Dohun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Sampling from pretrained diffusion and flow-matching models typically requires many forward passes to generate diverse and high-fidelity images. Existing distillation methods often rely on multiple auxiliary networks, carefully designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuan Zhang , Chenyi Li , Guoqing Ma , Jiajun Zha , Yuanming Yang , Bo Wang , Wei Tang , Wenbo Li , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan

In this paper, we address the problem of generative dataset distillation that utilizes generative models to synthesize images. The generator may produce any number of images under a preserved evaluation time. In this work, we leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Junqiao Fan , Yunjiao Zhou , Min Chang Jordan Ren , Jianfei Yang

Image enhancement finds wide-ranging applications in real-world scenarios due to complex environments and the inherent limitations of imaging devices. Recent diffusion-based methods yield promising outcomes but necessitate prolonged and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yixuan Zhu , Haolin Wang , Ao Li , Wenliang Zhao , Yansong Tang , Jingxuan Niu , Lei Chen , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Prevailing Dataset Distillation (DD) methods leveraging generative models confront two fundamental limitations. First, despite pioneering the use of diffusion models in DD and delivering impressive performance, the vast majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Letian Zhou , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

Flow-based image generative models exhibit stable training and produce high quality samples when using multi-step sampling procedures. One-step generative models can produce high quality image samples but can be difficult to optimize as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chia-Hong Hsu , Frank Wood

We introduce $\texttt{PairFlow}$, a lightweight preprocessing step for training Discrete Flow Models (DFMs) to achieve few-step sampling without requiring a pretrained teacher. DFMs have recently emerged as a new class of generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mingue Park , Jisung Hwang , Seungwoo Yoo , Kyeongmin Yeo , Minhyuk Sung

Dataset distillation provides an effective approach to reduce memory and computational costs by optimizing a compact dataset that achieves performance comparable to the full original. However, for large-scale datasets and complex deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xinhao Zhong , Shuoyang Sun , Xulin Gu , Zhaoyang Xu , Yaowei Wang , Min Zhang , Bin Chen

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

Learning diffusion bridge models is easy; making them fast and practical is an art. Diffusion bridge models (DBMs) are a promising extension of diffusion models for applications in image-to-image translation. However, like many modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Nikita Gushchin , David Li , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev , Dmitry Baranchuk , Alexander Korotin

We introduce the Self-Evaluating Model (Self-E), a novel, from-scratch training approach for text-to-image generation that supports any-step inference. Self-E learns from data similarly to a Flow Matching model, while simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xin Yu , Xiaojuan Qi , Zhengqi Li , Kai Zhang , Richard Zhang , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Tianyu Wang , Yotam Nitzan

Autoregressive (AR) models with diffusion heads have recently achieved strong text-to-audio performance, yet their iterative decoding and multi-step sampling process introduce high-latency issues. To address this bottleneck, we propose a…