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Diffusion Models have emerged as a leading class of generative models, yet their iterative sampling process remains computationally expensive. Timestep distillation is a promising technique to accelerate generation, but it often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Guanjie Chen , Shirui Huang , Kai Liu , Jianchen Zhu , Xiaoye Qu , Peng Chen , Yu Cheng , Yifu Sun

Visual-motor policy learning has advanced with architectures like diffusion-based policies, known for modeling complex robotic trajectories. However, their prolonged inference times hinder high-frequency control tasks requiring real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Bofang Jia , Pengxiang Ding , Can Cui , Mingyang Sun , Pengfang Qian , Siteng Huang , Zhaoxin Fan , Donglin Wang

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

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

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

Score distillation of 2D diffusion models has proven to be a powerful mechanism to guide 3D optimization, for example enabling text-based 3D generation or single-view reconstruction. A common limitation of existing score distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yanbo Xu , Jayanth Srinivasa , Gaowen Liu , Shubham Tulsiani

Diffusion probabilistic models have shown significant progress in video generation; however, their computational efficiency is limited by the large number of sampling steps required. Reducing sampling steps often compromises video quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zihan Ding , Chi Jin , Difan Liu , Haitian Zheng , Krishna Kumar Singh , Qiang Zhang , Yan Kang , Zhe Lin , Yuchen Liu

Image diffusion distillation achieves high-fidelity generation with very few sampling steps. However, applying these techniques directly to video diffusion often results in unsatisfactory frame quality due to the limited visual quality in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuanhao Zhai , Kevin Lin , Zhengyuan Yang , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Chung-Ching Lin , David Doermann , Junsong Yuan , Lijuan Wang

Diffusion models produce high-quality text-to-image results, but their iterative denoising is computationally expensive.Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) emerges as a promising path to few-step distillation, but suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haoyu Li , Tingyan Wen , Lin Qi , Zhe Wu , Yihuang Chen , Xing Zhou , Lifei Zhu , Xueqian Wang , Kai Zhang

Generative priors of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models enable a wide range of new generation and editing applications on diverse visual modalities. However, when adapting these priors to complex visual modalities, often represented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Subin Kim , Kyungmin Lee , June Suk Choi , Jongheon Jeong , Kihyuk Sohn , Jinwoo Shin

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

Feature distillation is an effective way to improve the performance for a smaller student model, which has fewer parameters and lower computation cost compared to the larger teacher model. Unfortunately, there is a common obstacle - the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Kaiyu Yue , Jiangfan Deng , Feng Zhou

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) is a powerful acceleration paradigm, yet its stability is often compromised in Forbidden Zone, regions where the real teacher provides unreliable guidance while the fake teacher exerts insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Lichen Bai , Zikai Zhou , Shitong Shao , Wenliang Zhong , Shuo Yang , Shuo Chen , Bojun Chen , Zeke Xie

Dataset distillation compresses large datasets into compact synthetic ones to reduce storage and computational costs. Among various approaches, distribution matching (DM)-based methods have attracted attention for their high efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fengli Ran , Xiao Pu , Bo Liu , Xiuli Bi , Bin Xiao

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

Diffusion distillation methods aim to compress the diffusion models into efficient one-step generators while trying to preserve quality. Among them, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) offers a suitable framework for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Denis Rakitin , Ivan Shchekotov , Dmitry Vetrov

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

It is currently difficult to distill discrete diffusion models. In contrast, continuous diffusion literature has many distillation approaches methods that can reduce sampling steps to a handful. Our method, Discrete Moment Matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Emiel Hoogeboom , David Ruhe , Jonathan Heek , Thomas Mensink , Tim Salimans

Sampling from diffusion models involves a slow iterative process that hinders their practical deployment, especially for interactive applications. To accelerate generation speed, recent approaches distill a multi-step diffusion model into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yilun Xu , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat

Discrete diffusion models (DDMs) are a powerful class of generative models for categorical data, but they typically require many function evaluations for a single sample, making inference expensive. Existing acceleration methods either rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yansong Gao , Yu Sun