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Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) is a recent but already widely popular method that relies on an image diffusion model to control optimization problems using text prompts. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the SDS loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Thiemo Alldieck , Nikos Kolotouros , Cristian Sminchisescu

This paper presents Invariant Score Distillation (ISD), a novel method for high-fidelity text-to-3D generation. ISD aims to tackle the over-saturation and over-smoothing problems in Score Distillation Sampling (SDS). In this paper, SDS is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Wenjie Zhuo , Fan Ma , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

We provide new convergence guarantees in Wasserstein distance for diffusion-based generative models, covering both stochastic (DDPM-like) and deterministic (DDIM-like) sampling methods. We introduce a simple framework to analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Eliot Beyler , Francis Bach

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has emerged as a prevalent technique for text-to-3D generation, enabling 3D content creation by distilling view-dependent information from text-to-2D guidance. However, they frequently exhibit shortcomings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Zeyu Cai , Duotun Wang , Yixun Liang , Zhijing Shao , Ying-Cong Chen , Xiaohang Zhan , Zeyu Wang

Score distillation sampling (SDS) and its variants have greatly boosted the development of text-to-3D generation, but are vulnerable to geometry collapse and poor textures yet. To solve this issue, we first deeply analyze the SDS and find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zike Wu , Pan Zhou , Xuanyu Yi , Xiaoding Yuan , Hanwang Zhang

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has emerged as an effective technique for leveraging 2D diffusion priors for tasks such as text-to-3D generation. While powerful, SDS struggles with achieving fine-grained alignment to user intent. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Itay Chachy , Guy Yariv , Sagie Benaim

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has emerged as the de facto approach for text-to-content generation in non-image domains. In this paper, we reexamine the SDS process and introduce a straightforward interpretation that demystifies the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Oren Katzir , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

Diffusion distillation has emerged as a promising strategy for accelerating text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models by distilling a pretrained score network into a one- or few-step generator. While existing methods have made notable progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mingyuan Zhou , Yi Gu , Zhendong Wang

Recent progress in text-to-3D generation has been achieved through the utilization of score distillation methods: they make use of the pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models by distilling via the diffusion model training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Kyungmin Lee , Kihyuk Sohn , Jinwoo Shin

Recent diffusion distillation methods have achieved remarkable progress, enabling high-quality ${\sim}4$-step sampling for large-scale text-conditional image and video diffusion models. However, further reducing the number of sampling steps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Nikita Starodubcev , Ilya Drobyshevskiy , Denis Kuznedelev , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

Discrete diffusion models (DDMs) have shown powerful generation ability for discrete data modalities like text and molecules. However, their practical application is hindered by inefficient sampling, requiring a large number of sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Feiyang Fu , Tongxian Guo , Zhaoqiang Liu

Discrete diffusion models excel at visual synthesis but rely on slow, iterative decoding. Existing single-step distillation methods attempt to bypass this bottleneck, either by training auxiliary score networks that effectively double…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chaoyang Wang , Yunhai Tong

Score distillation sampling (SDS) demonstrates a powerful capability for text-conditioned 2D image and 3D object generation by distilling the knowledge from learned score functions. However, SDS often suffers from blurriness caused by noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 SeonHwa Kim , Jiwon Kim , Soobin Park , Donghoon Ahn , Jiwon Kang , Seungryong Kim , Kyong Hwan Jin , Eunju Cha

Score distillation sampling (SDS), the methodology in which the score from pretrained 2D diffusion models is distilled into 3D representation, has recently brought significant advancements in text-to-3D generation task. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Min-Seop Kwak , Donghoon Ahn , Ines Hyeonsu Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Seungryong Kim

We present mean-shift distillation, a novel diffusion distillation technique that provides a provably good proxy for the gradient of the diffusion output distribution. This is derived directly from mean-shift mode seeking on the…

Score distillation sampling~(SDS) has been widely adopted to overcome the absence of unseen views in reconstructing 3D objects from a \textbf{single} image. It leverages pre-trained 2D diffusion models as teacher to guide the reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Xuanyu Yi , Zike Wu , Qingshan Xu , Pan Zhou , Joo-Hwee Lim , Hanwang Zhang

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) leverages pretrained 2D diffusion models to advance text-to-3D generation but neglects multi-view correlations, being prone to geometric inconsistencies and multi-face artifacts in the generated 3D content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Feng Yang , Wenliang Qian , Wangmeng Zuo , Hui Li

Score distillation sampling is an effective technique to generate 3D models from text prompts, utilizing pre-trained large-scale text-to-image diffusion models as guidance. However, the produced 3D assets tend to be over-saturating,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Khoi Do , Binh-Son Hua

Existing score distillation methods are sensitive to classifier-free guidance (CFG) scale: manifested as over-smoothness or instability at small CFG scales, while over-saturation at large ones. To explain and analyze these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Min Wei , Jingkai Zhou , Junyao Sun , Xuesong Zhang

Generating high-quality 3D assets from textual descriptions remains a pivotal challenge in computer graphics and vision research. Due to the scarcity of 3D data, state-of-the-art approaches utilize pre-trained 2D diffusion priors, optimized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Ling Yang , Zixiang Zhang , Junlin Han , Bohan Zeng , Runjia Li , Philip Torr , Wentao Zhang