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Recent advances in few-step diffusion distillation have enabled efficient image generation, yet aligning these models with human preferences remains challenging. We propose Reward-Tilted Distribution Matching Distillation (RTDMD), a…

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Diffusion and flow matching policies have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in robotic applications by accurately capturing multimodal robot trajectory distributions. However, their computationally expensive inference, due to the…

The computational benefits of iterative non-autoregressive transformers decrease as the number of decoding steps increases. As a remedy, we introduce Distill Multiple Steps (DiMS), a simple yet effective distillation technique to decrease…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Sajad Norouzi , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Felipe Perez , Maksims Volkovs

Diffusion models have demonstrated excellent potential for generating diverse images. However, their performance often suffers from slow generation due to iterative denoising. Knowledge distillation has been recently proposed as a remedy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jiatao Gu , Shuangfei Zhai , Yizhe Zhang , Lingjie Liu , Josh Susskind

We address the problem of fine-tuning diffusion models for reward-guided generation in biomolecular design. While diffusion models have proven highly effective in modeling complex, high-dimensional data distributions, real-world…

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 have revolutionized generative tasks through high-fidelity outputs, yet flow matching (FM) offers faster inference and empirical performance gains. However, current foundation FM models are computationally prohibitive for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Frank Fundel , Björn Ommer

Knowledge distillation has demonstrated encouraging performances in deep model compression. Most existing approaches, however, require massive labeled data to accomplish the knowledge transfer, making the model compression a cumbersome and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Chengchao Shen , Xinchao Wang , Youtan Yin , Jie Song , Sihui Luo , Mingli Song

Log-likelihood evaluation enables important capabilities in generative models, including model comparison, certain fine-tuning objectives, and many downstream applications. Yet paradoxically, some of today's best generative models --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xinyue Ai , Yutong He , Albert Gu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , J Zico Kolter , Nicholas Matthew Boffi , Max Simchowitz

Diffusion models and Flow Matching generate high-quality samples but are slow at inference, and distilling them into few-step models often leads to instability and extensive tuning. To resolve these trade-offs, we propose Inductive Moment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Linqi Zhou , Stefano Ermon , Jiaming Song

Discrete Flow-based Models (DFMs) are powerful generative models for high-quality discrete data but typically suffer from slow sampling speeds due to their reliance on iterative decoding processes. This reliance on a multi-step process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jaehoon Yoo , Wonjung Kim , Seunghoon Hong

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models based on flow matching -- such as pi0, pi0.5, and SmolVLA -- achieve state-of-the-art generalist robotic manipulation, yet their iterative denoising, typically 10 ODE steps, introduces substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wuyang Luan , Junhui Li , Weiguang Zhao , Wenjian Zhang , Tieru Wu , Rui Ma

Diffusion-based stylization methods typically denoise from a specific partial noise state for image-to-image and video-to-video tasks. This multi-step diffusion process is computationally expensive and hinders real-world application. A…

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Distilled video generation models offer fast and efficient synthesis but struggle with motion customization when guided by reference videos, especially under training-free settings. Existing training-free methods, originally designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Jintao Rong , Xin Xie , Xinyi Yu , Linlin Ou , Xinyu Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Dong Gong

Diffusion and flow matching models generate high-fidelity data by simulating paths defined by Ordinary or Stochastic Differential Equations (ODEs/SDEs), starting from a tractable prior distribution. The probability flow ODE formulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Liangyu Yuan , Ruoyu Wang , Tong Zhao , Dingwen Fu , Mingkun Lei , Beier Zhu , Chi Zhang

Coarse-to-fine autoregressive modeling has recently shown strong promise for visuomotor policy learning, combining the inference efficiency of autoregressive methods with the global trajectory coherence of diffusion-based policies. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daichi Yashima , Koki Seno , Shuhei Kurita , Yusuke Oda , Komei Sugiura

Post-training of flow matching models-aligning the output distribution with a high-quality target-is mathematically equivalent to imitation learning. While Supervised Fine-Tuning mimics expert demonstrations effectively, it cannot correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yeyao Ma , Chen Li , Xiaosong Zhang , Han Hu , Weidi Xie

Recent advancements in timestep-distilled diffusion models have enabled high-quality image generation that rivals non-distilled multi-step models, but with significantly fewer inference steps. While such models are attractive for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zichen Miao , Zhengyuan Yang , Kevin Lin , Ze Wang , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang , Qiang Qiu

We propose a method to distill a complex multistep diffusion model into a single-step conditional GAN student model, dramatically accelerating inference, while preserving image quality. Our approach interprets diffusion distillation as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Minguk Kang , Richard Zhang , Connelly Barnes , Sylvain Paris , Suha Kwak , Jaesik Park , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu , Taesung Park

Diffusion and flow-matching models achieve remarkable generative performance but at the cost of many sampling steps, this slows inference and limits applicability to time-critical tasks. The ReFlow procedure can accelerate sampling by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Beomsu Kim , Yu-Guan Hsieh , Michal Klein , Marco Cuturi , Jong Chul Ye , Bahjat Kawar , James Thornton
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