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Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) distills score-based generative models into efficient one-step generators, without requiring a one-to-one correspondence with the sampling trajectories of their teachers. Yet, the limited capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiangyu Fan , Zesong Qiu , Zhuguanyu Wu , Fanzhou Wang , Zhiqian Lin , Tianxiang Ren , Dahua Lin , Ruihao Gong , Lei Yang

Discrete diffusion models (DDMs) have shown powerful generation ability for discrete data modalities like text and molecules. However, their practical application is hindered by inefficient sampling, requiring a large number of sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Feiyang Fu , Tongxian Guo , Zhaoqiang Liu

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

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

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-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

Conditional diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in image manipulation tasks. The general pipeline involves adding noise to the image and then denoising it. However, this method faces a trade-off problem: adding too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Luozhou Wang , Shuai Yang , Shu Liu , Ying-cong Chen

Although the diffusion model has achieved remarkable performance in the field of image generation, its high inference delay hinders its wide application in edge devices with scarce computing resources. Therefore, many training-free sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Fei Wang , Yongjun Xu

Large video diffusion and flow models have achieved remarkable success in high-quality video generation, but their use in real-time interactive applications remains limited due to their inefficient multi-step sampling process. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Weili Nie , Julius Berner , Nanye Ma , Chao Liu , Saining Xie , Arash Vahdat

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

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

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

The inference latency of diffusion models remains a critical barrier to their real-time application. While trajectory-based and distribution-based step distillation methods offer solutions, they present a fundamental trade-off.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Hanbo Cheng , Peng Wang , Kaixiang Lei , Qi Li , Zhen Zou , Pengfei Hu , Jun Du

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

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

It is currently difficult to distill discrete diffusion models. In contrast, continuous diffusion literature has many distillation approaches methods that can reduce sampling steps to a handful. Our method, Discrete Moment Matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Emiel Hoogeboom , David Ruhe , Jonathan Heek , Thomas Mensink , Tim Salimans

We present mean-shift distillation, a novel diffusion distillation technique that provides a provably good proxy for the gradient of the diffusion output distribution. This is derived directly from mean-shift mode seeking on the…

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

Consistency distillation methods have demonstrated significant success in accelerating generative tasks of diffusion models. However, since previous consistency distillation methods use simple and straightforward strategies in selecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Cunzheng Wang , Ziyuan Guo , Yuxuan Duan , Huaxia Li , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

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
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