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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable generation quality, but they suffer from significant inference cost due to their reliance on multiple sequential denoising steps, motivating recent efforts to distill this inference process into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zihan Yang , Shuyuan Tu , Licheng Zhang , Qi Dai , Yu-Gang Jiang , Zuxuan Wu

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

Currently, Flow matching methods aim to compress the iterative generation process of diffusion models into a few or even a single step, with MeanFlow and FreeFlow being representative achievements of one-step generation based on Ordinary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Haonan Wei , Linyuan Wang , Nuolin Sun , Zhizhong Zheng , Lei Li , Bin Yan

We present an ultra-efficient post-training method for shortcutting large-scale pre-trained flow matching diffusion models into efficient few-step samplers, enabled by novel velocity field self-distillation. While shortcutting in flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xu Cai , Yang Wu , Qianli Chen , Haoran Wu , Lichuan Xiang , Hongkai Wen

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across various domains. However, their slow generation speed remains a critical challenge. Existing acceleration methods, while aiming to reduce steps, often compromise sample quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huiyang Shao , Xin Xia , Yuhong Yang , Yuxi Ren , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for point cloud generation. A key component that drives the impressive performance for generating high-quality samples from noise is iteratively denoise for thousands of steps. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Lemeng Wu , Dilin Wang , Chengyue Gong , Xingchao Liu , Yunyang Xiong , Rakesh Ranjan , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra , Qiang Liu

We introduce B\'ezierFlow, a lightweight training approach for few-step generation with pretrained diffusion and flow models. B\'ezierFlow achieves a 2-3x performance improvement for sampling with $\leq$ 10 NFEs while requiring only 15…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yunhong Min , Juil Koo , Seungwoo Yoo , Minhyuk Sung

Image fusion is a fundamental and important task in computer vision, aiming to combine complementary information from different modalities to fuse images. In recent years, diffusion models have made significant developments in the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zirui Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Tianwei Guan , Yuhan Zhou , Xingyuan Li , Minjing Dong , Jinyuan Liu

MeanFlow (MF) has recently been established as a framework for one-step generative modeling. However, its ``fastforward'' nature introduces key challenges in both the training objective and the guidance mechanism. First, the original MF's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhengyang Geng , Yiyang Lu , Zongze Wu , Eli Shechtman , J. Zico Kolter , Kaiming He

Diffusion models are a powerful generative framework, but come with expensive inference. Existing acceleration methods often compromise image quality or fail under complex conditioning when operating in an extremely low-step regime. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jonas Kohler , Albert Pumarola , Edgar Schönfeld , Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Roshan Sumbaly , Peter Vajda , Ali Thabet

Generating long, high-quality videos remains a challenge due to the complex interplay of spatial and temporal dynamics and hardware limitations. In this work, we introduce MaskFlow, a unified video generation framework that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Michael Fuest , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

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

High-quality training data play a key role in image segmentation tasks. Usually, pixel-level annotations are expensive, laborious and time-consuming for the large volume of training data. To reduce labelling cost and improve segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuying Hao , Yi Liu , Zewu Wu , Lin Han , Yizhou Chen , Guowei Chen , Lutao Chu , Shiyu Tang , Zhiliang Yu , Zeyu Chen , Baohua Lai

While test-time fine-tuning is beneficial in few-shot learning, the need for multiple backpropagation steps can be prohibitively expensive in real-time or low-resource scenarios. To address this limitation, we propose an approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Donggyun Kim , Chanwoo Kim , Seunghoon Hong

While large-scale video diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-resolution and semantically rich content, a significant gap remains between their pretraining performance and real-world deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zeyue Xue , Siming Fu , Jie Huang , Shuai Lu , Haoran Li , Yijun Liu , Yuming Li , Xiaoxuan He , Mengzhao Chen , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Ping Luo

Diffusion Transformers currently lead the field in high-quality video generation, but their slow iterative denoising process and prohibitive quadratic attention costs for long sequences create significant inference bottlenecks. While both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Youping Gu , Xiaolong Li , Yuhao Hu , Minqi Chen , Bohan Zhuang

In digital pathology, whole-slide images routinely exceed gigapixel resolution, making computationally intensive generative super-resolution (SR) impractical for routine deployment. We introduce CAFlow, an adaptive-depth single-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Elad Yoshai , Ariel D. Yoshai , Natan T. Shaked

Diffusion Transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance in video generation. However, their long input sequences incur substantial latency due to the quadratic complexity of full attention. Various sparse attention mechanisms have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Tongcheng Fang , Hanling Zhang , Ruiqi Xie , Zhuo Han , Xin Tao , Tianchen Zhao , Pengfei Wan , Wenbo Ding , Wanli Ouyang , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang

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

Video diffusion models have rapidly become the dominant paradigm for high-fidelity generative video synthesis, but their practical deployment remains constrained by severe inference costs. Compared with image generation, video synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Pengfei Wan , James Kwok , Zeke Xie