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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

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

Diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) methods deliver strong perceptual quality but are often unsuitable for latency-sensitive scenarios due to reliance on future frames and expensive multi-step denoising. We propose Stream-DiffVSR,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hau-Shiang Shiu , Chin-Yang Lin , Zhixiang Wang , Chi-Wei Hsiao , Po-Fan Yu , Yu-Chih Chen , Yu-Lun Liu

Diffusion models achieve high-quality sample generation at the cost of a lengthy multistep inference procedure. To overcome this, diffusion distillation techniques produce student generators capable of matching or surpassing the teacher in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yanke Song , Jonathan Lorraine , Weili Nie , Karsten Kreis , James Lucas

Diffusion models have shown strong performance in speech enhancement, but their real-time applicability has been limited by multi-step iterative sampling. Consistency distillation has recently emerged as a promising alternative by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Liang Xu , Longfei Felix Yan , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

We present a new method for making diffusion models faster to sample. The method distills many-step diffusion models into few-step models by matching conditional expectations of the clean data given noisy data along the sampling trajectory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tim Salimans , Thomas Mensink , Jonathan Heek , Emiel Hoogeboom

Despite their strong performances on many generative tasks, diffusion models require a large number of sampling steps in order to generate realistic samples. This has motivated the community to develop effective methods to distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Weijian Luo , Zemin Huang , Zhengyang Geng , J. Zico Kolter , Guo-jun Qi

With the success of flow matching in visual generation, sampling efficiency remains a critical bottleneck for its practical application. Among flow models' accelerating methods, ReFlow has been somehow overlooked although it has theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lei Ke , Hubery Yin , Gongye Liu , Zhengyao Lv , Jingcai Guo , Chen Li , Wenhan Luo , Yujiu Yang , Jing Lyu

Pre-trained diffusion models have shown great potential in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) tasks by enabling high-resolution reconstructions. While one-step diffusion (OSD) methods significantly improve efficiency compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zongliang Wu , Siming Zheng , Peng-Tao Jiang , Xin Yuan

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

Diffusion models produce high-quality text-to-image results, but their iterative denoising is computationally expensive.Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) emerges as a promising path to few-step distillation, but suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haoyu Li , Tingyan Wen , Lin Qi , Zhe Wu , Yihuang Chen , Xing Zhou , Lifei Zhu , Xueqian Wang , Kai Zhang

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

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for point cloud generation. A key component that drives the impressive performance for generating high-quality samples from noise is iteratively denoise for thousands of steps. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Lemeng Wu , Dilin Wang , Chengyue Gong , Xingchao Liu , Yunyang Xiong , Rakesh Ranjan , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra , Qiang Liu

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods are mainly limited by the low inference speed due to the requirements of hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing acceleration sampling techniques inevitably sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion models (DMs) have shown promising results on single-image super-resolution and other image-to-image translation tasks. Benefiting from more computational resources and longer inference times, they are able to yield more realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yuanting Fan , Chengxu Liu , Nengzhong Yin , Changlong Gao , Xueming Qian

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs degraded by complex, unknown processes. While many Stable Diffusion (SD)-based Real-ISR methods have achieved remarkable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Bin Chen , Gehui Li , Rongyuan Wu , Xindong Zhang , Jie Chen , Jian Zhang , Lei Zhang

Recent advancements in diffusion models have positioned them at the forefront of image generation. Despite their superior performance, diffusion models are not without drawbacks; they are characterized by complex architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Yuda Song , Zehao Sun , Xuanwu Yin

Despite their ability to generate high-resolution and diverse images from text prompts, text-to-image diffusion models often suffer from slow iterative sampling processes. Model distillation is one of the most effective directions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Thuan Hoang Nguyen , Anh Tran

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) must handle complex degradations and inherent reconstruction ambiguities. While generative models have improved perceptual quality, a key trade-off remains with computational cost. One-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yun Kai Zhuang

In this paper, we unify more than 10 existing one-step diffusion distillation approaches, such as Diff-Instruct, DMD, SIM, SiD, $f$-distill, etc, inside a theory-driven framework which we name the \textbf{\emph{Uni-Instruct}}. Uni-Instruct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yifei Wang , Weimin Bai , Colin Zhang , Debing Zhang , Weijian Luo , He Sun