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Recent diffusion distillation methods have achieved remarkable progress, enabling high-quality ${\sim}4$-step sampling for large-scale text-conditional image and video diffusion models. However, further reducing the number of sampling steps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Nikita Starodubcev , Ilya Drobyshevskiy , Denis Kuznedelev , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

Score distillation sampling (SDS) has proven to be an important tool, enabling the use of large-scale diffusion priors for tasks operating in data-poor domains. Unfortunately, SDS has a number of characteristic artifacts that limit its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 David McAllister , Songwei Ge , Jia-Bin Huang , David W. Jacobs , Alexei A. Efros , Aleksander Holynski , Angjoo Kanazawa

Dataset distillation has emerged as an effective strategy, significantly reducing training costs and facilitating more efficient model deployment. Recent advances have leveraged generative models to distill datasets by capturing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago , Praveen Tirupattur , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Gaowen Liu , Mubarak Shah

Diffusion models generate high-quality images but require dozens of forward passes. We introduce Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), a procedure to transform a diffusion model into a one-step image generator with minimal impact on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman , Taesung Park

Diffusion models exhibit remarkable generative capability, but their high latency limits practical deployment. Many studies have attempted to reduce sampling steps to accelerate inference. Among them, MeanFlow has attracted considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiao He , Yang Li , Peizhen Zhang , Songtao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Nannan Wang

Score distillation of 2D diffusion models has proven to be a powerful mechanism to guide 3D optimization, for example enabling text-based 3D generation or single-view reconstruction. A common limitation of existing score distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yanbo Xu , Jayanth Srinivasa , Gaowen Liu , Shubham Tulsiani

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has made significant strides in distilling image-generative models for 3D generation. However, its maximum-likelihood-seeking behavior often leads to degraded visual quality and diversity, limiting its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Runjie Yan , Yinbo Chen , Xiaolong Wang

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) is a widely used paradigm for accelerating inference in few-step video diffusion models. However, DMD-style video distillation faces two coupled challenges: the fake score must track a continuously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhuguanyu Wu , Ruihao Gong , Yang Yong , Yushi Huang , Xiangyu Fan , Lei Yang , Dahua Lin , Xianglong Liu

Diffusion models achieve high-quality image generation but are limited by slow iterative sampling. Distillation methods alleviate this by enabling one- or few-step generation. Flow matching, originally introduced as a distinct framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mingyuan Zhou , Yi Gu , Huangjie Zheng , Liangchen Song , Guande He , Yizhe Zhang , Wenze Hu , Yinfei Yang

While diffusion models can learn complex distributions, sampling requires a computationally expensive iterative process. Existing distillation methods enable efficient sampling, but have notable limitations, such as performance degradation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Sirui Xie , Zhisheng Xiao , Diederik P Kingma , Tingbo Hou , Ying Nian Wu , Kevin Patrick Murphy , Tim Salimans , Ben Poole , Ruiqi Gao

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 for super-resolution (SR) produce high-quality visual results but require expensive computational costs. Despite the development of several methods to accelerate diffusion-based SR models, some (e.g., SinSR) fail to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Daniil Selikhanovych , David Li , Aleksei Leonov , Nikita Gushchin , Sergei Kushneriuk , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev , Iaroslav Koshelev , Alexander Korotin

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) is a recent but already widely popular method that relies on an image diffusion model to control optimization problems using text prompts. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the SDS loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Thiemo Alldieck , Nikos Kolotouros , Cristian Sminchisescu

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has emerged as an effective technique for leveraging 2D diffusion priors for tasks such as text-to-3D generation. While powerful, SDS struggles with achieving fine-grained alignment to user intent. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Itay Chachy , Guy Yariv , Sagie Benaim

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

Distribution matching distillation (DMD) facilitates few-step image generation by aligning a distilled student with a reference multi-step teacher. In practice, however, optimizing DMD can reduce sample diversity in few-step synthesis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Tianhe Wu , Ruibin Li , Lei Zhang , Kede Ma

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) and its variants have been widely used for text-to-3D generation by distilling 2D image diffusion priors. However, the standard SDS objective is prone to severe mode collapse, frequently yielding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rohith Ramanan , A. N. Rajagopalan

Sampling from unnormalized target distributions is a fundamental yet challenging task in machine learning and statistics. Existing sampling algorithms typically require many iterative steps to produce high-quality samples, leading to high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Pascal Jutras-Dubé , Patrick Pynadath , Ruqi Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-resolution, realistic images across diverse natural distributions. However, their performance heavily relies on high-quality training data, making it challenging to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tianyu Chen , Yasi Zhang , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong , Mingyuan Zhou

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) is a promising score distillation technique that compresses pre-trained teacher diffusion models into efficient one-step or multi-step student generators. Nevertheless, its reliance on the reverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yanzuo Lu , Yuxi Ren , Xin Xia , Shanchuan Lin , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Andy J. Ma , Xiaohua Xie , Jian-Huang Lai
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