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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

Super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts, often relying on effective downsampling to generate diverse and realistic training pairs. In this work, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Sohwi Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

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

Dataset distillation or condensation aims to generate a smaller but representative subset from a large dataset, which allows a model to be trained more efficiently, meanwhile evaluating on the original testing data distribution to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zeyuan Yin , Zhiqiang Shen

We propose Noise Conditional Variational Score Distillation (NCVSD), a novel method for distilling pretrained diffusion models into generative denoisers. We achieve this by revealing that the unconditional score function implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xinyu Peng , Ziyang Zheng , Yaoming Wang , Han Li , Nuowen Kan , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

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

We introduce Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), a novel training approach that efficiently samples large-scale foundational image diffusion models in just 1-4 steps while maintaining high image quality. We use score distillation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Axel Sauer , Dominik Lorenz , Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach

Diffusion-based real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) methods have demonstrated impressive performance.To achieve efficient Real-ISR, many works employ Variational Score Distillation (VSD) to distill pre-trained stable-diffusion (SD)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Tianyi Zhang , Zheng-Peng Duan , Peng-Tao Jiang , Bo Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

The proposed method, Discriminator Guidance, aims to improve sample generation of pre-trained diffusion models. The approach introduces a discriminator that gives explicit supervision to a denoising sample path whether it is realistic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongjun Kim , Yeongmin Kim , Se Jung Kwon , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

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

We introduce Audio-SDS, a generalization of Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) to text-conditioned audio diffusion models. While SDS was initially designed for text-to-3D generation using image diffusion, its core idea of distilling a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Jessie Richter-Powell , Antonio Torralba , Jonathan Lorraine

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

Pretrained diffusion models have revolutionized real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) but suffer from computational bottlenecks due to iterative sampling. Recent single-step distillation accelerates inference but faces a stark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shyang-En Weng , Yi-Cheng Liao , Yu-Syuan Xu , Wei-Chen Chiu , Ching-Chun Huang

Generative models offer a promising paradigm for the final stage reranking in multi-stage recommender systems, with the ability to capture inter-item dependencies within reranked lists. However, their practical deployment still faces two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Cheng , Hao Wang , Wei Guo , Weiwen Liu , Yong Liu , Yawen Li , Enhong Chen

We propose Score-of-Mixture Training (SMT), a novel framework for training one-step generative models by minimizing a class of divergences called the $\alpha$-skew Jensen--Shannon divergence. At its core, SMT estimates the score of mixture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tejas Jayashankar , J. Jon Ryu , Gregory Wornell

Contemporary machine learning requires training large neural networks on massive datasets and thus faces the challenges of high computational demands. Dataset distillation, as a recent emerging strategy, aims to compress real-world datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Peng Sun , Bei Shi , Daiwei Yu , Tao Lin

Although diffusion model has shown great potential for generating higher quality images than GANs, slow sampling speed hinders its wide application in practice. Progressive distillation is thus proposed for fast sampling by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Wujie Sun , Defang Chen , Can Wang , Deshi Ye , Yan Feng , Chun 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

Although large foundation models pre-trained by self-supervised learning have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks including automatic speech recognition (ASR), knowledge distillation (KD) is often required in practice to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xiaoyu Yang , Qiujia Li , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

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