Few-step diffusion can sacrifice output coverage for single-sample quality

Across image and video generation, the authors find that coverage retention depends strongly on the objective used to distill a diffusion model.

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Yifei Wang · Xiaoyu Wu · Tsu-Jui Fu · Chen Chen · Liang-Chieh Chen · Zhe Gan · +1 more

Rice University · Apple

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Wang et al.

The authors apply pass@k, a metric adapted from code-generation evaluation, to image and causal video diffusion models.

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Few-step diffusion distillation can improve single-sample quality while narrowing valid-output coverage, especially when trained with distribution-matching objectives.

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