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Text-to-3D generation has shown rapid progress in recent days with the advent of score distillation, a methodology of using pretrained text-to-2D diffusion models to optimize neural radiance field (NeRF) in the zero-shot setting. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Junyoung Seo , Wooseok Jang , Min-Seop Kwak , Hyeonsu Kim , Jaehoon Ko , Junho Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Seungryong Kim

Diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated their powerful performance across various tasks, but this comes at a cost of the slow sampling speed. To achieve both efficient and high-quality synthesis, various distillation-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhenyu Zhou , Defang Chen , Can Wang , Chun Chen , Siwei Lyu

The mean shift (MS) algorithm is a nonparametric method used to cluster sample points and find the local modes of kernel density estimates, using an idea based on iterative gradient ascent. In this paper we develop a mean-shift-inspired…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-21 Wanli Qiao , Amarda Shehu

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have shown promise in reconstructing high-resolution images with fine details from low-resolution counterparts. However, these approaches typically require tens or even hundreds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiao He , Huaao Tang , Zhijun Tu , Junchao Zhang , Kun Cheng , Hanting Chen , Yong Guo , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Hu

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

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 diffusion models effectively generate remarkable synthetic images, a key limitation is the inference inefficiency, requiring numerous sampling steps. To accelerate inference and maintain high-quality synthesis, teacher-student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Chi Hong , Jiyue Huang , Robert Birke , Dick Epema , Stefanie Roos , Lydia Y. Chen

By leveraging the text-to-image diffusion priors, score distillation can synthesize 3D contents without paired text-3D training data. Instead of spending hours of online optimization per text prompt, recent studies have been focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhiyuan Ma , Yuxiang Wei , Yabin Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhen Lei , Lei Zhang

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has emerged as the de facto approach for text-to-content generation in non-image domains. In this paper, we reexamine the SDS process and introduce a straightforward interpretation that demystifies the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Oren Katzir , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

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

We present SD3.5-Flash, an efficient few-step distillation framework that brings high-quality image generation to accessible consumer devices. Our approach distills computationally prohibitive rectified flow models through a reformulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hmrishav Bandyopadhyay , Rahim Entezari , Jim Scott , Reshinth Adithyan , Yi-Zhe Song , Varun Jampani

Knowledge distillation methods have recently shown to be a promising direction to speedup the synthesis of large-scale diffusion models by requiring only a few inference steps. While several powerful distillation methods were recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Nikita Starodubcev , Artem Fedorov , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved great success in image generation and other fields. By fine sampling through the trajectory defined by the SDE/ODE solver based on a well-trained score model, DMs can generate remarkable high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Bowen Zheng , Tianming Yang

Score distillation sampling (SDS) has emerged as an effective framework in text-driven 3D editing tasks, leveraging diffusion models for 3D-consistent editing. However, existing SDS-based 3D editing methods suffer from long training times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiwook Kim , Seonho Lee , Jaeyo Shin , Jiho Choi , Hyunjung Shim

Score distillation sampling is an effective technique to generate 3D models from text prompts, utilizing pre-trained large-scale text-to-image diffusion models as guidance. However, the produced 3D assets tend to be over-saturating,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Khoi Do , Binh-Son Hua

Dataset distillation (DD) aims to compress large-scale datasets into compact synthetic sets while preserving training efficacy. However, existing studies mainly focus on image classification, leaving dense prediction tasks such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wenjie Zheng , Haoji Hu , Jiali Lu , Xingze Zou , Jing Wang

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable performance in image super-resolution (SR), but their high computational cost limits practical deployment in remote sensing applications. To address this issue, we propose SlimDiffSR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has emerged as a prevalent technique for text-to-3D generation, enabling 3D content creation by distilling view-dependent information from text-to-2D guidance. However, they frequently exhibit shortcomings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Zeyu Cai , Duotun Wang , Yixun Liang , Zhijing Shao , Ying-Cong Chen , Xiaohang Zhan , Zeyu Wang

Calibrated estimates of uncertainty are critical for many real-world computer vision applications of deep learning. While there are several widely-used uncertainty estimation methods, dropout inference stands out for its simplicity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yichen Shen , Zhilu Zhang , Mert R. Sabuncu , Lin Sun

Dataset distillation seeks to condense datasets into smaller but highly representative synthetic samples. While diffusion models now lead all generative benchmarks, current distillation methods avoid them and rely instead on GANs or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Brian B. Moser , Federico Raue , Sebastian Palacio , Stanislav Frolov , Andreas Dengel
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