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Recent hybrid video generation models combine autoregressive temporal dynamics with diffusion-based spatial denoising, but their sequential, iterative nature leads to error accumulation and long inference times. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yongqi Yang , Huayang Huang , Xu Peng , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yu Wu

Few-step diffusion models enable efficient high-resolution image synthesis but struggle to align with specific downstream objectives due to limitations of existing reinforcement learning (RL) methods in low-step regimes with limited state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ziyi Zhang , Li Shen , Sen Zhang , Deheng Ye , Yong Luo , Miaojing Shi , Dongjing Shan , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

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

Diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) has recently achieved remarkable fidelity but still suffers from prohibitive sampling costs. While distribution matching distillation (DMD) can accelerate diffusion models toward one-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengyao Lv , Menghan Xia , Xintao Wang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Recent advances in large multi-modal generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multi-modal generation, including image and video generation. These models are typically built upon multi-step frameworks like diffusion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhenglin Cheng , Peng Sun , Jianguo Li , Tao Lin

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Huan Yang , Kai Zhang , Junnan Li

While diffusion distillation has enabled one-step generation through methods like Variational Score Distillation, adapting distilled models to emerging new controls -- such as novel structural constraints or latest user preferences --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Yifan Song , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Jing Tang

While few-step generative models have enabled powerful image and video generation at significantly lower cost, generic reinforcement learning (RL) paradigms for few-step models remain an unsolved problem. Existing RL approaches for few-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Weijian Luo , Jing Tang

We address the problem of fine-tuning diffusion models for reward-guided generation in biomolecular design. While diffusion models have proven highly effective in modeling complex, high-dimensional data distributions, real-world…

Blind super-resolution methods based on stable diffusion showcase formidable generative capabilities in reconstructing clear high-resolution images with intricate details from low-resolution inputs. However, their practical applicability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rui Xie , Chen Zhao , Kai Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Zhou , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Diffusion distillation is central to accelerating image and video generation, yet existing methods are fundamentally limited by the denoising process, where step reduction has largely saturated. Partial timestep low-resolution generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Feiyang Chen , Hongpeng Pan , Haonan Xu , Xinyu Duan , Yang Yang , Zhefeng Wang

Recent advances in one-step text-to-image generation have enabled real-time synthesis with remarkable efficiency and quality. Previous reinforcement learning methods for one-step generators combine image-space reward optimization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Junyi Wu , Weijian Luo , Haoyang Zheng , Ruizhe Zhang , Guang Lin

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving high-quality and fast image generation that aligns with complex human preferences. While recent advancements in diffusion models and distillation have enabled rapid generation, the effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Weijian Luo , Kenji Kawaguchi , Jing Tang

Diffusion models achieve high-quality sample generation at the cost of a lengthy multistep inference procedure. To overcome this, diffusion distillation techniques produce student generators capable of matching or surpassing the teacher in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yanke Song , Jonathan Lorraine , Weili Nie , Karsten Kreis , James Lucas

We introduce relative and absolute position matching (RAPM), a diffusion distillation method resulting in high quality generation that can be trained efficiently on a single GPU. Recent diffusion distillation research has achieved excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Guoqiang Zhang , Kenta Niwa , J. P. Lewis , Cedric Mesnage , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

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

Latent Consistency Distillation (LCD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient text-to-image synthesis. By distilling a latent consistency model (LCM) from a pre-trained teacher latent diffusion model (LDM), LCD facilitates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jiachen Li , Weixi Feng , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

While many diffusion models have achieved impressive results in real-world video super-resolution (Real-VSR) by generating rich and realistic details, their reliance on multi-step sampling leads to slow inference. One-step networks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Bin Chen , Weiqi Li , Shijie Zhao , Xuanyu Zhang , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Jian Zhang

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

Recently, a series of diffusion-aware distillation algorithms have emerged to alleviate the computational overhead associated with the multi-step inference process of Diffusion Models (DMs). Current distillation techniques often dichotomize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yuxi Ren , Xin Xia , Yanzuo Lu , Jiacheng Zhang , Jie Wu , Pan Xie , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao