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Recent advancements in timestep-distilled diffusion models have enabled high-quality image generation that rivals non-distilled multi-step models, but with significantly fewer inference steps. While such models are attractive for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zichen Miao , Zhengyuan Yang , Kevin Lin , Ze Wang , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang , Qiang Qiu

The machine learning community is increasingly recognizing the importance of fostering trust and safety in modern generative AI (GenAI) models. We posit machine unlearning (MU) as a crucial foundation for developing safe, secure, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianqi Chen , Shujian Zhang , Mingyuan Zhou

Text-to-3D is an emerging task that allows users to create 3D content with infinite possibilities. Existing works tackle the problem by optimizing a 3D representation with guidance from pre-trained diffusion models. An apparent drawback is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yiji Cheng , Fei Yin , Xiaoke Huang , Xintong Yu , Jiaxiang Liu , Shikun Feng , Yujiu Yang , Yansong Tang

Existing approaches to depth or disparity estimation output a distribution over a set of pre-defined discrete values. This leads to inaccurate results when the true depth or disparity does not match any of these values. The fact that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Divyansh Garg , Yan Wang , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Wei-Lun Chao

Dataset distillation compresses large datasets into compact synthetic sets with comparable performance in training models. Despite recent progress on diffusion-based distillation, this type of method typically depends on heuristic guidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xuhui Li , Zhengquan Luo , Xiwei Liu , Yongqiang Yu , Zhiqiang Xu

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

This paper presents a novel method to generate textures for 3D models given text prompts and 3D meshes. Additional depth information is taken into account to perform the Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) process with depth conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Cindy Le , Congrui Hetang , Chendi Lin , Ang Cao , Yihui He

The increased demand for 3D data in AR/VR, robotics and gaming applications, gave rise to powerful generative pipelines capable of synthesizing high-quality 3D objects. Most of these models rely on the Score Distillation Sampling (SDS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ziyu Wan , Despoina Paschalidou , Ian Huang , Hongyu Liu , Bokui Shen , Xiaoyu Xiang , Jing Liao , Leonidas Guibas

We develop an iterative (greedy) deep learning (DL) algorithm which is able to transform an arbitrary probability distribution function (PDF) into the target PDF. The model is based on iterative Optimal Transport of a series of 1D slices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Biwei Dai , Uros Seljak

Score-based diffusion models currently constitute the state of the art in continuous generative modeling. These methods are typically formulated via overdamped or underdamped Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-type stochastic differential equations, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Herlock Rahimi

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has achieved remarkable success in text-to-3D content generation. However, SDS-based methods struggle to maintain semantic fidelity for user prompts, particularly when involving multiple objects with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Chenhan Jiang , Yihan Zeng , Dit-Yan Yeung

Despite the recent visually-pleasing results achieved, the massive computational cost has been a long-standing flaw for diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs), which, in turn, greatly limits their applications on resource-limited platforms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Xingyi Yang , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion distillation, exemplified by Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), has shown great promise in few-step generation but often sacrifices quality for sampling speed. While integrating Reinforcement Learning (RL) into distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Linwei Dong , Ruoyu Guo , Ge Bai , Zehuan Yuan , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in video generation; however, the high computational cost of the denoising process remains a major bottleneck. Existing approaches have shown promise in reducing the number of diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiao Liang , Yunzhu Zhang , Linchao Zhu

We introduce DreamPolish, a text-to-3D generation model that excels in producing refined geometry and high-quality textures. In the geometry construction phase, our approach leverages multiple neural representations to enhance the stability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yean Cheng , Ziqi Cai , Ming Ding , Wendi Zheng , Shiyu Huang , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang , Boxin Shi

We introduce Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), a novel training approach that efficiently samples large-scale foundational image diffusion models in just 1-4 steps while maintaining high image quality. We use score distillation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Axel Sauer , Dominik Lorenz , Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach

Recent advances in few-step diffusion distillation have enabled efficient image generation, yet aligning these models with human preferences remains challenging. We propose Reward-Tilted Distribution Matching Distillation (RTDMD), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yushi Huang , Xiangxin Zhou , Ruoyu Wang , Chi Zhang , Jun Zhang , Tianyu Pang

This paper deals with the problem of efficient sampling from a stochastic differential equation, given the drift function and the diffusion matrix. The proposed approach leverages a recent model for probabilities \cite{rudi2021psd} (the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-25 Anant Raj , Umut Şimşekli , Alessandro Rudi

In the realm of text-to-3D generation, utilizing 2D diffusion models through score distillation sampling (SDS) frequently leads to issues such as blurred appearances and multi-faced geometry, primarily due to the intrinsically noisy nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Pengsheng Guo , Hans Hao , Adam Caccavale , Zhongzheng Ren , Edward Zhang , Qi Shan , Aditya Sankar , Alexander G. Schwing , Alex Colburn , Fangchang Ma

Flow matching is a recent state-of-the-art framework for generative modeling based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs). While closely related to diffusion models, it provides a more general perspective on generative modeling. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jeongsol Kim , Bryan Sangwoo Kim , Jong Chul Ye