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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…

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Diffusion models are powerful generative models that achieve state-of-the-art performance in image synthesis. However, training them demands substantial amounts of data and computational resources. Continual learning would allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Sergi Masip , Pau Rodriguez , Tinne Tuytelaars , Gido M. van de Ven

Knowledge distillation methods have recently shown to be a promising direction to speedup the synthesis of large-scale diffusion models by requiring only a few inference steps. While several powerful distillation methods were recently…

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In recent years, the rapid expansion of dataset sizes and the increasing complexity of deep learning models have significantly escalated the demand for computational resources, both for data storage and model training. Dataset distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Zhe Li , Hadrien Reynaud , Mischa Dombrowski , Sarah Cechnicka , Franciskus Xaverius Erick , Bernhard Kainz

Recent advances in video diffusion models have unlocked new potential for realistic audio-driven talking video generation. However, achieving seamless audio-lip synchronization, maintaining long-term identity consistency, and producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Longtao Zheng , Yifan Zhang , Hanzhong Guo , Jiachun Pan , Zhenxiong Tan , Jiahao Lu , Chuanxin Tang , Bo An , Shuicheng Yan

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 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

Recent advancements in diffusion models have greatly improved the quality and diversity of synthesized content. To harness the expressive power of diffusion models, researchers have explored various controllable mechanisms that allow users…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Tsai-Shien Chen , Chieh Hubert Lin , Hung-Yu Tseng , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recent advancements in diffusion models have shown great promise in producing high-quality video content. However, efficiently training video diffusion models capable of integrating directional guidance and controllable motion intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Xuehai He , Shuohang Wang , Jianwei Yang , Xiaoxia Wu , Yiping Wang , Kuan Wang , Zheng Zhan , Olatunji Ruwase , Yelong Shen , Xin Eric Wang

Discrete flow matching generates text by iteratively transforming noise tokens into coherent language, but may require hundreds of forward passes. Distillation uses the multi-step trajectory to train a student to reproduce the process in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Dominic Culver , Nikhil Bhendawade , Manuel R. Ciosici , Yizhe Zhang , Irina Belousova

In this paper, we tackle the problem of domain shift. Most existing methods perform training on multiple source domains using a single model, and the same trained model is used on all unseen target domains. Such solutions are sub-optimal as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Tao Zhong , Zhixiang Chi , Li Gu , Yang Wang , Yuanhao Yu , Jin Tang

In recent years, motion generative models have undergone significant advancement, yet pose challenges in aligning with downstream objectives. Recent studies have shown that using differentiable rewards to directly align the preference of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiaofeng Tan , Wanjiang Weng , Haodong Lei , Hongsong Wang

Generating temporally-consistent high-fidelity videos can be computationally expensive, especially over longer temporal spans. More-recent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) -- despite making significant headway in this context -- have only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Haozhe Liu , Sen He , Ding Liu , Menglin Jia , Chenyang Zhang , Michael S. Ryoo , Tian Xie

This work introduces Variational Diffusion Distillation (VDD), a novel method that distills denoising diffusion policies into Mixtures of Experts (MoE) through variational inference. Diffusion Models are the current state-of-the-art in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hongyi Zhou , Denis Blessing , Ge Li , Onur Celik , Xiaogang Jia , Gerhard Neumann , Rudolf Lioutikov

Video diffusion models achieve strong frame-level fidelity but still struggle with motion coherence, dynamics and realism, often producing jitter, ghosting, or implausible dynamics. A key limitation is that the standard denoising MSE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haotian Xue , Qi Chen , Zhonghao Wang , Xun Huang , Eli Shechtman , Jinrong Xie , Yongxin Chen

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…

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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

Diffusion models have shown strong performance in speech enhancement, but their real-time applicability has been limited by multi-step iterative sampling. Consistency distillation has recently emerged as a promising alternative by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Liang Xu , Longfei Felix Yan , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential in speech synthesis tasks, including text-to-speech (TTS) and voice cloning. However, their iterative denoising processes are computationally intensive, and previous distillation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Yingahao Aaron Li , Rithesh Kumar , Zeyu Jin