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Diffusion models have significantly advanced the fields of image, audio, and video generation, but they depend on an iterative sampling process that causes slow generation. To overcome this limitation, we propose consistency models, a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yang Song , Prafulla Dhariwal , Mark Chen , Ilya Sutskever

We propose Noise Conditional Variational Score Distillation (NCVSD), a novel method for distilling pretrained diffusion models into generative denoisers. We achieve this by revealing that the unconditional score function implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xinyu Peng , Ziyang Zheng , Yaoming Wang , Han Li , Nuowen Kan , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

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

Notable breakthroughs in diffusion modeling have propelled rapid improvements in video generation, yet current foundational model still face critical challenges in simultaneously balancing prompt following, motion plausibility, and visual…

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

Dataset distillation aims to encapsulate the rich information contained in dataset into a compact distilled dataset but it faces performance degradation as the image-per-class (IPC) setting or image resolution grows larger. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Lexiao Zou , Gongwei Chen , Yanda Chen , Miao Zhang

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

Distilling video generation models to extremely low inference budgets (e.g., 2--4 NFEs) is crucial for real-time deployment, yet remains challenging. Trajectory-style consistency distillation often becomes conservative under complex video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xingtong Ge , Yi Zhang , Yushi Huang , Dailan He , Xiahong Wang , Bingqi Ma , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Jun Zhang

To address the larger computation and storage requirements associated with large video datasets, video dataset distillation aims to capture spatial and temporal information in a significantly smaller dataset, such that training on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Kunyang Li , Jeffrey A Chan Santiago , Sarinda Dhanesh Samarasinghe , Gaowen Liu , Mubarak Shah

Diffusion models for super-resolution (SR) produce high-quality visual results but require expensive computational costs. Despite the development of several methods to accelerate diffusion-based SR models, some (e.g., SinSR) fail to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Daniil Selikhanovych , David Li , Aleksei Leonov , Nikita Gushchin , Sergei Kushneriuk , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev , Iaroslav Koshelev , Alexander Korotin

Accelerating the sampling speed of diffusion models remains a significant challenge. Recent score distillation methods distill a heavy teacher model into a student generator to achieve one-step generation, which is optimized by calculating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shengyuan Zhang , Ling Yang , Zejian Li , An Zhao , Chenye Meng , Changyuan Yang , Guang Yang , Zhiyuan Yang , Lingyun Sun

Autoregressive video generators are attractive for streaming, long-horizon, and interactive applications, but distilling strong black-box teachers into causal students remains difficult. The student must learn under its own rollout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yang Luo , Shengju Qian , Xiaohang Tang , Zirui Zhu , Yong Liu , Xin Wang , Yang You

Self-distillation enables language models to learn on-policy from their own trajectories by using the same model as both student and teacher, with the teacher being conditioned on privileged information unavailable to the student. Such…

Distilled autoregressive (AR) video models enable efficient streaming generation but frequently misalign with human visual preferences. Existing reinforcement learning (RL) frameworks are not naturally suited to these architectures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Songchun Zhang , Zeyue Xue , Siming Fu , Jie Huang , Xianghao Kong , Y Ma , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Anyi Rao

Recently, open-source video diffusion models (VDMs), such as WanX, Magic141 and HunyuanVideo, have been scaled to over 10 billion parameters. These large-scale VDMs have demonstrated significant improvements over smaller-scale VDMs across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shitong Shao , Hongwei Yi , Hanzhong Guo , Tian Ye , Daquan Zhou , Michael Lingelbach , Zhiqiang Xu , Zeke Xie

Diffusion-based models have been widely used in various visual generation tasks, showing promising results in image super-resolution (SR), while typically being limited by dozens or even hundreds of sampling steps. Although existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xue Wu , Jingwei Xin , Zhijun Tu , Jie Hu , Jie Li , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Diffusion-based Video Super-Resolution (VSR) is renowned for generating perceptually realistic videos, yet it grapples with maintaining detail consistency across frames due to stochastic fluctuations. The traditional approach of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Qi Tang , Yao Zhao , Meiqin Liu , Chao Yao

Knowledge distillation methods have recently shown to be a promising direction to speedup the synthesis of large-scale diffusion models by requiring only a few inference steps. While several powerful distillation methods were recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Nikita Starodubcev , Artem Fedorov , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

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

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