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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

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

The iterative sampling procedure employed by diffusion models (DMs) often leads to significant inference latency. To address this, we propose Stochastic Consistency Distillation (SCott) to enable accelerated text-to-image generation, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hongjian Liu , Qingsong Xie , TianXiang Ye , Zhijie Deng , Chen Chen , Shixiang Tang , Xueyang Fu , Haonan Lu , Zheng-jun Zha

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

Diffusion models (DMs) produce high-quality images, yet their sampling remains costly when adapted to new domains. Distilled DMs are faster but typically remain confined within their teacher's domain. Thus, fast and high-quality generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yara Bahram , Mélodie Desbos , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Eric Granger

Diffusion-based or flow-based models have achieved significant progress in video synthesis but require multiple iterative sampling steps, which incurs substantial computational overhead. While many distillation methods that are solely based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yanxiao Sun , Jiafu Wu , Yun Cao , Chengming Xu , Yabiao Wang , Weijian Cao , Donghao Luo , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Diffusion models (DMs) have significantly advanced the development of real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), but the computational cost of multi-step diffusion models limits their application. One-step diffusion models generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jianze Li , Jiezhang Cao , Yong Guo , Wenbo Li , Yulun Zhang

Human preference alignment presents a critical yet underexplored challenge for diffusion models in text-to-3D generation. Existing solutions typically require task-specific fine-tuning, posing significant hurdles in data-scarce 3D domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Shuyuan Tu , Haidong Cao , Sicheng Xie , Daoguo Dong , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

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

Text-to-3D generation has achieved significant success by incorporating powerful 2D diffusion models, but insufficient 3D prior knowledge also leads to the inconsistency of 3D geometry. Recently, since large-scale multi-view datasets have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Junyoung Seo , Susung Hong , Wooseok Jang , Inès Hyeonsu Kim , Minseop Kwak , Doyup Lee , Seungryong Kim

Score distillation sampling (SDS) has shown great promise in text-to-3D generation by distilling pretrained large-scale text-to-image diffusion models, but suffers from over-saturation, over-smoothing, and low-diversity problems. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Zhengyi Wang , Cheng Lu , Yikai Wang , Fan Bao , Chongxuan Li , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Distilling pre-trained 2D diffusion models into 3D assets has driven remarkable advances in text-to-3D synthesis. However, existing methods typically rely on Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) loss, which involves asymmetric KL divergence--a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Weimin Bai , Yubo Li , Wenzheng Chen , Weijian Luo , He Sun

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

Text-to-image diffusion models pre-trained on billions of image-text pairs have recently enabled 3D content creation by optimizing a randomly initialized differentiable 3D representation with score distillation. However, the optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yukun Huang , Jianan Wang , Yukai Shi , Boshi Tang , Xianbiao Qi , Lei Zhang

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

Diffusion large language models (DLLMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with the promise of fast text generation through parallel decoding. However, realizing this potential in practice remains challenging: reducing the number of…

Diffusion- and flow-based models have advanced Real-world Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR), but their multi-step sampling makes inference slow and hard to deploy. One-step distillation alleviates the cost, yet often degrades restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ruiqing Wang , Kai Zhang , Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Shilin Lu , Jian Yang

Score distillation has emerged as one of the most prevalent approaches for text-to-3D asset synthesis. Essentially, score distillation updates 3D parameters by lifting and back-propagating scores averaged over different views. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Peihao Wang , Zhiwen Fan , Dejia Xu , Dilin Wang , Sreyas Mohan , Forrest Iandola , Rakesh Ranjan , Yilei Li , Qiang Liu , Zhangyang Wang , Vikas Chandra

Recent advances in one-step text-to-image generation have enabled real-time synthesis with remarkable efficiency and quality. Previous reinforcement learning methods for one-step generators combine image-space reward optimization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Junyi Wu , Weijian Luo , Haoyang Zheng , Ruizhe Zhang , Guang Lin