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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

In this paper, we present the Directly Denoising Diffusion Model (DDDM): a simple and generic approach for generating realistic images with few-step sampling, while multistep sampling is still preserved for better performance. DDDMs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Dan Zhang , Jingjing Wang , Feng Luo

Convolutional neural networks based single-image super-resolution (SISR) has made great progress in recent years. However, it is difficult to apply these methods to real-world scenarios due to the computational and memory cost. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Guangwei Gao , Wenjie Li , Juncheng Li , Fei Wu , Huimin Lu , Yi Yu

Diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation with its exceptional quality and creativity. However, its multi-step sampling process is known to be slow, often requiring tens of inference steps to obtain satisfactory results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xingchao Liu , Xiwen Zhang , Jianzhu Ma , Jian Peng , Qiang Liu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been used in image classification for model compression. However, rare studies apply this technology on single-stage object detectors. Focal loss shows that the accumulated errors of easily-classified samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shitao Tang , Litong Feng , Wenqi Shao , Zhanghui Kuang , Wei Zhang , Yimin Chen

Diffusion models achieve great success in generating diverse and high-fidelity images, yet their widespread application, especially in real-time scenarios, is hampered by their inherently slow generation speed. The slow generation stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Shengkun Tang , Yaqing Wang , Caiwen Ding , Yi Liang , Yao Li , Dongkuan Xu

Iterative generative models, such as noise conditional score networks and denoising diffusion probabilistic models, produce high quality samples by gradually denoising an initial noise vector. However, their denoising process has many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Eric Luhman , Troy Luhman

Diffusion-based image compression has demonstrated impressive perceptual performance. However, it suffers from two critical drawbacks: (1) excessive decoding latency due to multi-step sampling, and (2) poor fidelity resulting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zheng Chen , Mingde Zhou , Jinpei Guo , Jiale Yuan , Yifei Ji , Yulun Zhang

Super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts, often relying on effective downsampling to generate diverse and realistic training pairs. In this work, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Sohwi Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

Trajectory prediction is a fundamental task in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), supporting efficient motion planning and real-time traffic safety management. Diffusion models have recently demonstrated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Bingzhang Wang , Kehua Chen , Yinhai Wang

In recent years, pre-trained multimodal large models have attracted widespread attention due to their outstanding performance in various multimodal applications. Nonetheless, the extensive computational resources and vast datasets required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhengyang Liang , Meiyu Liang , Wei Huang , Yawen Li , Zhe Xue

This paper presents SANA-Sprint, an efficient diffusion model for ultra-fast text-to-image (T2I) generation. SANA-Sprint is built on a pre-trained foundation model and augmented with hybrid distillation, dramatically reducing inference…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junsong Chen , Shuchen Xue , Yuyang Zhao , Jincheng Yu , Sayak Paul , Junyu Chen , Han Cai , Song Han , Enze Xie

Diffusion-weighted (DW) MRI measures the direction and scale of the local diffusion process in every voxel through its spectrum in q-space, typically acquired in one or more shells. Recent developments in micro-structure imaging and…

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved remarkable success by leveraging large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models as priors. However, these methods still face two challenges: the requirement for dozens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Aiping Zhang , Zongsheng Yue , Renjing Pei , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

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

While diffusion models have achieved great success in the field of video generation, this progress is accompanied by a rapidly escalating computational burden. Among the existing acceleration methods, Feature Caching is popular due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chang Zou , Changlin Li , Yang Li , Patrol Li , Jianbing Wu , Xiao He , Songtao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Kailin Huang , Linfeng Zhang

Achieving high-fidelity generation in extremely few sampling steps has long been a central goal of generative modeling. Existing approaches largely rely on distillation-based frameworks to compress the original multi-step denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Rui Li , Bingyu Li , Yuanzhi Liang , Haibin Huang , Chi Zhang , XueLong Li

Diffusion large language models (DLLMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with the promise of fast text generation through parallel decoding. However, realizing this potential in practice remains challenging: reducing the number of…

We propose a novel medical image classification method that integrates dual-model weight selection with self-knowledge distillation (SKD). In real-world medical settings, deploying large-scale models is often limited by computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Ayaka Tsutsumi , Guang Li , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Satoshi Kondo , Miki Haseyama

The stylization of 3D scenes is an increasingly attractive topic in 3D vision. Although image style transfer has been extensively researched with promising results, directly applying 2D style transfer methods to 3D scenes often fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yushen Zuo , Jun Xiao , Kin-Chung Chan , Rongkang Dong , Cuixin Yang , Zongqi He , Hao Xie , Kin-Man Lam