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Diffusion models are instrumental in text-to-audio (TTA) generation. Unfortunately, they suffer from slow inference due to an excessive number of queries to the underlying denoising network per generation. To address this bottleneck, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yatong Bai , Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida , Somayeh Sojoudi

Recent advances in diffusion generative models have yielded remarkable progress. While the quality of generated content continues to improve, these models have grown considerably in size and complexity. This increasing computational burden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Reza Shirkavand , Peiran Yu , Shangqian Gao , Gowthami Somepalli , Tom Goldstein , Heng Huang

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

Recent advances in trajectory-controllable video generation have achieved remarkable progress. Previous methods mainly use adapter-based architectures for precise motion control along predefined trajectories. However, all these methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Quanhao Li , Zhen Xing , Rui Wang , Haidong Cao , Qi Dai , Daoguo Dong , Zuxuan Wu

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as powerful generative models for various tasks, including image, video, and speech synthesis. However, their inference process remains computationally expensive due to the repeated evaluation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Joseph Liu , Joshua Geddes , Ziyu Guo , Haomiao Jiang , Mahesh Kumar Nandwana

Deep learning models for image compression often face practical limitations in hardware-constrained applications. Although these models achieve high-quality reconstructions, they are typically complex, heavyweight, and require substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Caroline Mazini Rodrigues , Nicolas Keriven , Thomas Maugey

Recent advancements in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have established them as the state-of-the-art method for video generation. However, their inherently sequential denoising process results in inevitable latency, limiting real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Zhifei Xu , Zhi Yao , Wenyi Zeng , Weijia Jia

Real-time interactive video generation requires low-latency, streaming, and controllable rollout. Existing autoregressive (AR) diffusion distillation methods have achieved strong results in the chunk-wise 4-step regime by distilling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Min Zhao , Hongzhou Zhu , Kaiwen Zheng , Zihan Zhou , Bokai Yan , Xinyuan Li , Xiao Yang , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

Diffusion models, as a type of generative model, have achieved impressive results in generating images and videos conditioned on textual conditions. However, the generation process of diffusion models involves denoising dozens of steps to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hui Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Zhen Xing , Jie Shao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Diffusion models have shown tremendous results in image generation. However, due to the iterative nature of the diffusion process and its reliance on classifier-free guidance, inference times are slow. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Ting Hsiao , Siavash Khodadadeh , Kevin Duarte , Wei-An Lin , Hui Qu , Mingi Kwon , Ratheesh Kalarot

The inference latency of diffusion models remains a critical barrier to their real-time application. While trajectory-based and distribution-based step distillation methods offer solutions, they present a fundamental trade-off.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Hanbo Cheng , Peng Wang , Kaixiang Lei , Qi Li , Zhen Zou , Pengfei Hu , Jun Du

Diffusion models have achieved impressive performance in video generation, but their iterative denoising process remains computationally expensive due to the large number of tokens processed at each timestep. Recently, progressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shikang Zheng , Jingkai Huang , Jiacheng Liu , Guantao Chen , Lixuan , Yuqi Lin , Peiliang Cai , Linfeng Zhang

Consistency models imitate the multi-step sampling of score-based diffusion in a single forward pass of a neural network. They can be learned in two ways: consistency distillation and consistency training. The former relies on the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Thibaut Issenhuth , Sangchul Lee , Ludovic Dos Santos , Jean-Yves Franceschi , Chansoo Kim , Alain Rakotomamonjy

Large-scale visual learning is increasingly limited by training cost. Existing knowledge distillation methods transfer from a stronger teacher to a weaker student for compression or final-accuracy improvement. We instead investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Baiang Li , Wenhao Chai , Felix Heide

Knowledge distillation is a common paradigm for transferring capabilities from larger models to smaller ones. While traditional distillation methods leverage a probabilistic divergence over the output of the teacher and student models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Prajjwal Bhattarai , Mohammad Amjad , Dmytro Zhylko , Tuka Alhanai

Knowledge distillation has become increasingly important in model compression. It boosts the performance of a miniaturized student network with the supervision of the output distribution and feature maps from a sophisticated teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yushuo Guan , Pengyu Zhao , Bingxuan Wang , Yuanxing Zhang , Cong Yao , Kaigui Bian , Jian Tang

Video-based action recognition is one of the most popular topics in computer vision. With recent advances of selfsupervised video representation learning approaches, action recognition usually follows a two-stage training framework, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yang Zhou , Zhanhao He , Keyu Lu , Guanhong Wang , Gaoang Wang

With the exponential increase in image data, training an image restoration model is laborious. Dataset distillation is a potential solution to this problem, yet current distillation techniques are a blank canvas in the field of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhuoran Zheng , Xin Su , Chen Wu , Xiuyi Jia

Diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized generative learning. They utilize a diffusion process to encode data into a simple Gaussian distribution. However, encoding a complex, potentially multimodal data distribution into a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yilun Xu , Gabriele Corso , Tommi Jaakkola , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance on a wide range of generative tasks, yet training them from scratch is notoriously resource-intensive, typically requiring millions of training images and many GPU days. Motivated by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Rui Huang , Shitong Shao , Zikai Zhou , Pukun Zhao , Hangyu Guo , Tian Ye , Lichen Bai , Shuo Yang , Zeke Xie