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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

Dataset distillation reduces the storage and computational consumption of training a network by generating a small surrogate dataset that encapsulates rich information of the original large-scale one. However, previous distillation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jianyang Gu , Saeed Vahidian , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Haonan Wang , Wei Jiang , Yang You , Yiran Chen

This paper introduces DrDiff, a novel framework for long-text generation that overcomes the efficiency-quality trade-off through three core technologies. First, we design a dynamic expert scheduling mechanism that intelligently allocates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jusheng Zhang , Yijia Fan , Kaitong Cai , Zimeng Huang , Xiaofei Sun , Jian Wang , Chengpei Tang , Keze 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

Despite their ability to generate high-resolution and diverse images from text prompts, text-to-image diffusion models often suffer from slow iterative sampling processes. Model distillation is one of the most effective directions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Thuan Hoang Nguyen , Anh Tran

Recent advances in few-step diffusion models have demonstrated their efficiency and effectiveness by shortcutting the probabilistic paths of diffusion models, especially in training one-step diffusion models from scratch (\emph{a.k.a.}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haitao Lin , Peiyan Hu , Minsi Ren , Zhifeng Gao , Zhi-Ming Ma , Guolin ke , Tailin Wu , Stan Z. Li

Step distillation has become a leading technique for accelerating diffusion models, among which Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) and Consistency Distillation are two representative paradigms. While consistency methods enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tao Liu , Hao Yan , Mengting Chen , Taihang Hu , Zhengrong Yue , Zihao Pan , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Zheng , Yaxing Wang

We present DreamCraft3D, a hierarchical 3D content generation method that produces high-fidelity and coherent 3D objects. We tackle the problem by leveraging a 2D reference image to guide the stages of geometry sculpting and texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jingxiang Sun , Bo Zhang , Ruizhi Shao , Lizhen Wang , Wen Liu , Zhenda Xie , Yebin Liu

Diffusion-based approaches have recently driven remarkable progress in real-world image super-resolution (SR). However, existing methods still struggle to simultaneously preserve fine details and ensure high-fidelity reconstruction, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Aro Kim , Myeongjin Jang , Chaewon Moon , Youngjin Shin , Jinwoo Jeong , Sang-hyo Park

Dataset distillation (DD) aims to generate a compact yet informative dataset that achieves performance comparable to the original dataset, thereby reducing demands on storage and computational resources. Although diffusion models have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yawen Zou , Guang Li , Zi Wang , Chunzhi Gu , Chao Zhang

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have shown a notable inherent understanding of image style and semantics. In this paper, we leverage the self-attention features from pretrained diffusion networks to transfer the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yang Zhou , Xu Gao , Zichong Chen , Hui Huang

Diffusion models, emerging as powerful deep generative tools, excel in various applications. They operate through a two-steps process: introducing noise into training samples and then employing a model to convert random noise into new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Huijie Zhang , Yifu Lu , Ismail Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Dogyoon Song , Qing Qu

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

The iterative sampling procedure employed by diffusion models (DMs) often leads to significant inference latency. To address this, we propose Stochastic Consistency Distillation (SCott) to enable accelerated text-to-image generation, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hongjian Liu , Qingsong Xie , TianXiang Ye , Zhijie Deng , Chen Chen , Shixiang Tang , Xueyang Fu , Haonan Lu , Zheng-jun Zha

Distilled diffusion models generate images in far fewer timesteps but suffer from reduced sample diversity when generating multiple outputs from the same prompt. To understand this phenomenon, we first investigate whether distillation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rohit Gandikota , David Bau

RGB cameras excel at capturing rich texture details with high spatial resolution, whereas event cameras offer exceptional temporal resolution and a high dynamic range (HDR). Leveraging their complementary strengths can substantially enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yao Deng , Xian Zhong , Wenxuan Liu , Zhaofei Yu , Jingling Yuan , Tiejun Huang

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative modeling framework for discrete data with successful applications spanning from text generation to image synthesis. However, their deployment faces challenges due to the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yinuo Ren , Haoxuan Chen , Yuchen Zhu , Wei Guo , Yongxin Chen , Grant M. Rotskoff , Molei Tao , Lexing Ying

Diffusion models have demonstrated promising performance in real-world video super-resolution (VSR). However, the dozens of sampling steps they require, make inference extremely slow. Sampling acceleration techniques, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zheng Chen , Zichen Zou , Kewei Zhang , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Yong Guo , Yulun Zhang

The ultimate goal of Dataset Distillation is to synthesize a small synthetic dataset such that a model trained on this synthetic set will perform equally well as a model trained on the full, real dataset. Until now, no method of Dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ziyao Guo , Kai Wang , George Cazenavette , Hui Li , Kaipeng Zhang , Yang You

Current video diffusion models achieve impressive generation quality but struggle in interactive applications due to bidirectional attention dependencies. The generation of a single frame requires the model to process the entire sequence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tianwei Yin , Qiang Zhang , Richard Zhang , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand , Eli Shechtman , Xun Huang