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Generative models based on dynamical equations such as flows and diffusions offer exceptional sample quality, but require computationally expensive numerical integration during inference. The advent of consistency models has enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nicholas M. Boffi , Michael S. Albergo , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Diffusion Purification, purifying noised images with diffusion models, has been widely used for enhancing certified robustness via randomized smoothing. However, existing frameworks often grapple with the balance between efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yiquan Li , Zhongzhu Chen , Kun Jin , Jiongxiao Wang , Bo Li , Chaowei Xiao

Consistency models have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional SDE-based diffusion models. They offer a significant acceleration in generation by producing high-quality samples in very few steps. Despite their empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Nishant Jain , Xunpeng Huang , Yian Ma , Tong 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

Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) and diffusion models (DMs) generate high-quality data from a noise distribution. However, their sampling process demands multiple iterations to solve an ordinary differential equation (ODE) with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Denis Gudovskiy , Wenzhao Zheng , Tomoyuki Okuno , Yohei Nakata , Kurt Keutzer

Error Correction Codes (ECC) are fundamental to reliable digital communication, yet designing neural decoders that are both accurate and computationally efficient remains challenging. Recent denoising diffusion decoders achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Haoyu Lei , Chin Wa Lau , Kaiwen Zhou , Nian Guo , Farzan Farnia

Image diffusion distillation achieves high-fidelity generation with very few sampling steps. However, applying these techniques directly to video diffusion often results in unsatisfactory frame quality due to the limited visual quality in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuanhao Zhai , Kevin Lin , Zhengyuan Yang , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Chung-Ching Lin , David Doermann , Junsong Yuan , Lijuan Wang

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved great success in image generation and other fields. By fine sampling through the trajectory defined by the SDE/ODE solver based on a well-trained score model, DMs can generate remarkable high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Bowen Zheng , Tianming Yang

Consistency Models (CMs) have shown promise for efficient one-step generation. However, most existing CMs rely on manually designed discretization schemes, which can cause repeated adjustments for different noise schedules and datasets. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiayu Bai , Zhanbo Feng , Zhijie Deng , Tianqi Hou , Robert C. Qiu , Zenan Ling

Timestep distillation is an effective approach for improving the generation efficiency of diffusion models. The Consistency Model (CM), as a trajectory-based framework, demonstrates significant potential due to its strong theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Bao Tang , Shuai Zhang , Yueting Zhu , Jijun Xiang , Xin Yang , Li Yu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Consistency models (CMs) offer faster sampling than traditional diffusion models, but their training is resource-intensive. For example, as of 2024, training a state-of-the-art CM on CIFAR-10 takes one week on 8 GPUs. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zhengyang Geng , Ashwini Pokle , William Luo , Justin Lin , J. Zico Kolter

Continuous-time Consistency Models (CMs) promise efficient few-step generation but face significant challenges with training instability. We argue this instability stems from a fundamental conflict: Training the network exclusively on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yansong Peng , Kai Zhu , Yu Liu , Pingyu Wu , Hebei Li , Xiaoyan Sun , Feng Wu

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- and flow-based models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative modeling approaches, but they require many sampling steps. Consistency models can distill these models into efficient one-step generators; however, unlike flow-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Amirmojtaba Sabour , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Deep clustering methods improve the performance of clustering tasks by jointly optimizing deep representation learning and clustering. While numerous deep clustering algorithms have been proposed, most of them rely on artificially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhanwen Cheng , Feijiang Li , Jieting Wang , Yuhua Qian

Diffusion models have found extensive use in solving inverse problems, by sampling from an approximate posterior distribution of data given the measurements. Recently, consistency models (CMs) have been proposed to directly predict the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Merve Gülle , Junno Yun , Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

Pre-trained diffusion models are commonly used to generate clean data (e.g., images) from random noises, effectively forming pairs of noises and corresponding clean images. Distillation on these pre-trained models can be viewed as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhangkai Wu , Xuhui Fan , Hongyu Wu , Longbing Cao

Diffusion language models (DLMs) are an attractive alternative to autoregressive models because they promise sublinear-time, parallel generation, yet practical gains remain elusive as high-quality samples still demand hundreds of refinement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hasan Amin , Yuan Gao , Yaser Souri , Subhojit Som , Ming Yin , Rajiv Khanna , Xia Song

Although continuous-time consistency models (e.g., sCM, MeanFlow) are theoretically principled and empirically powerful for fast academic-scale diffusion, its applicability to large-scale text-to-image and video tasks remains unclear due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Kaiwen Zheng , Yuji Wang , Qianli Ma , Huayu Chen , Jintao Zhang , Yogesh Balaji , Jianfei Chen , Ming-Yu Liu , Jun Zhu , Qinsheng Zhang

Consistency models are a nascent family of generative models that can sample high quality data in one step without the need for adversarial training. Current consistency models achieve optimal sample quality by distilling from pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yang Song , Prafulla Dhariwal