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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

The Stable Diffusion Model (SDM) is a prevalent and effective model for text-to-image (T2I) and image-to-image (I2I) generation. Despite various attempts at sampler optimization, model distillation, and network quantification, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jinchao Zhu , Yuxuan Wang , Siyuan Pan , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Gao Huang

Timestep distillation is an effective approach for improving the generation efficiency of diffusion models. The Consistency Model (CM), as a trajectory-based framework, demonstrates significant potential due to its strong theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Bao Tang , Shuai Zhang , Yueting Zhu , Jijun Xiang , Xin Yang , Li Yu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

In the field of class incremental learning (CIL), generative replay has become increasingly prominent as a method to mitigate the catastrophic forgetting, alongside the continuous improvements in generative models. However, its application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Junsu Kim , Hoseong Cho , Jihyeon Kim , Yihalem Yimolal Tiruneh , Seungryul Baek

Few-shot learning deals with problems such as image classification using very few training examples. Recent vision foundation models show excellent few-shot transfer abilities, but are large and slow at inference. Using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Erik Landolsi , Fredrik Kahl

While super-resolution (SR) methods based on diffusion models exhibit promising results, their practical application is hindered by the substantial number of required inference steps. Recent methods utilize degraded images in the initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Ziwei Liu , Yu Qiao , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown strong potential for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), owing to their noise-started generation process that enables realistic texture synthesis and captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Zhu , Kai Zhang , Yu Zheng , Lei Luo , Yong Guo , Jian Yang

Flow-matching models have enabled high-quality text-to-speech synthesis, but their iterative sampling process during inference incurs substantial computational cost. Although distillation is widely used to reduce the number of inference…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Bin Lin , Peng Yang , Chao Yan , Xiaochen Liu , Wei Wang , Boyong Wu , Pengfei Tan , Xuerui Yang

Prevailing Dataset Distillation (DD) methods leveraging generative models confront two fundamental limitations. First, despite pioneering the use of diffusion models in DD and delivering impressive performance, the vast majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Letian Zhou , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

Classifier-free guided diffusion models have recently been shown to be highly effective at high-resolution image generation, and they have been widely used in large-scale diffusion frameworks including DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion and Imagen.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Chenlin Meng , Robin Rombach , Ruiqi Gao , Diederik P. Kingma , Stefano Ermon , Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) has emerged as a pivotal technique in the domain of model compression, substantially reducing the dependency on the original training data. Nonetheless, conventional DFKD methods that employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Muquan Li , Dongyang Zhang , Tao He , Xiurui Xie , Yuan-Fang Li , Ke Qin

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is challenging due to extremely limited training data while requiring models to acquire new knowledge without catastrophic forgetting. Recent works have explored generative models, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junsu Kim , Yunhoe Ku , Dongyoon Han , Seungryul Baek

Multi-weather image restoration has witnessed incredible progress, while the increasing model capacity and expensive data acquisition impair its applications in memory-limited devices. Data-free distillation provides an alternative for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Pei Wang , Xiaotong Luo , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

In the realm of text-to-3D generation, utilizing 2D diffusion models through score distillation sampling (SDS) frequently leads to issues such as blurred appearances and multi-faced geometry, primarily due to the intrinsically noisy nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Pengsheng Guo , Hans Hao , Adam Caccavale , Zhongzheng Ren , Edward Zhang , Qi Shan , Aditya Sankar , Alexander G. Schwing , Alex Colburn , Fangchang Ma

Recent advances in text-to-image synthesis largely benefit from sophisticated sampling strategies and classifier-free guidance (CFG) to ensure high-quality generation. However, CFG's reliance on two forward passes, especially when combined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Minghao Fu , Guo-Hua Wang , Xiaohao Chen , Qing-Guo Chen , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang

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

We propose a diffusion distillation method that achieves new state-of-the-art in one-step/few-step 1024px text-to-image generation based on SDXL. Our method combines progressive and adversarial distillation to achieve a balance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shanchuan Lin , Anran Wang , Xiao Yang

Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in text and image generation but suffer from slow generation due to the token-by-token process. We ask an ambitious question: can a pre-trained AR model be adapted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Enshu Liu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang , Zinan Lin

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

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang