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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

Recent advances in large multi-modal generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multi-modal generation, including image and video generation. These models are typically built upon multi-step frameworks like diffusion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhenglin Cheng , Peng Sun , Jianguo Li , Tao Lin

Diffusion models excel in high-quality generation but suffer from slow inference due to iterative sampling. While recent methods have successfully transformed diffusion models into one-step generators, they neglect model size reduction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yuanzhi Zhu , Xingchao Liu , Qiang Liu

Flow matching as a paradigm of generative model achieves notable success across various domains. However, existing methods use either multi-round training or knowledge within minibatches, posing challenges in finding a favorable coupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Siyu Xing , Jie Cao , Huaibo Huang , Haichao Shi , Xiao-Yu Zhang

Reconstructing high-fidelity flow fields from low-fidelity observations is a central problem in scientific machine learning, yet recent diffusion and flow-matching models typically rely on iterative sampling, making them costly for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sicheng Ma , Tianyue Yang , Xiuzhe Wu , Xiao Xue

Recent approaches have shown promises distilling diffusion models into efficient one-step generators. Among them, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) produces one-step generators that match their teacher in distribution, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Taesung Park , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman

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

Continuous diffusion and flow matching models could represent a powerful alternative to autoregressive approaches for language modelling (LM), as they unlock a host of advantages currently reserved for continuous modalities, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Oscar Davis , Anastasiia Filippova , Pierre Ablin , Victor Turrisi , Amitis Shidani , Marco Cuturi , Louis Béthune

Sampling from unnormalized target distributions is a fundamental yet challenging task in machine learning and statistics. Existing sampling algorithms typically require many iterative steps to produce high-quality samples, leading to high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Pascal Jutras-Dubé , Patrick Pynadath , Ruqi Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved significant progress in both image and video generation while still suffering from huge computation costs. As an effective solution, flow matching aims to reflow the diffusion process of diffusion models into…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lei Ke , Haohang Xu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Li , Jiajun Li , Haoling Li , Yuxuan Lin , Dongsheng Jiang , Yujiu Yang , Linfeng Zhang

Diffusion models are relatively easy to train but require many steps to generate samples. Consistency models are far more difficult to train, but generate samples in a single step. In this paper we propose Multistep Consistency Models: A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jonathan Heek , Emiel Hoogeboom , Tim Salimans

Diffusion models and flow-matching models have enabled generating diverse and realistic images by learning to transfer noise to data. However, sampling from these models involves iterative denoising over many neural network passes, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kevin Frans , Danijar Hafner , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

Flow and diffusion models produce high-quality samples, but adapting them to user preferences or constraints post-training remains costly and brittle, a challenge commonly called reward alignment. We argue that efficient reward alignment…

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

Significant advances have been made in the sampling efficiency of diffusion models and flow matching models, driven by Consistency Distillation (CD), which trains a student model to mimic the output of a teacher model at a later timestep.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yunpeng Liu , Boxiao Liu , Yi Zhang , Xingzhong Hou , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Haihang You

Finding a suitable layout represents a crucial task for diverse applications in graphic design. Motivated by simpler and smoother sampling trajectories, we explore the use of Flow Matching as an alternative to current diffusion-based layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Julian Jorge Andrade Guerreiro , Naoto Inoue , Kento Masui , Mayu Otani , Hideki Nakayama

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Diffusion models have recently shown great promise for generative modeling, outperforming GANs on perceptual quality and autoregressive models at density estimation. A remaining downside is their slow sampling time: generating high quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Tim Salimans , Jonathan Ho

Recent diffusion and flow matching models have demonstrated strong capabilities in image generation and editing by progressively removing noise through iterative sampling. While this enables flexible inversion for semantic-preserving edits,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yasong Dai , Zeeshan Hayder , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Hongdong Li

Training machine learning models on massive datasets is expensive and time-consuming. Dataset distillation addresses this by creating a small synthetic dataset that achieves the same performance as the full dataset. Recent methods use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago , Mubarak Shah