Projecting critic errors stabilizes four-step video diffusion distillation

PDMD modifies distribution matching updates to suppress accumulated critic error without adding models, losses or inference steps.

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Zimo Wang · Junkun Yuan · Angtian Wang · Haotian Yang · Canyu Zhang · Siyuan Yuan · +6 more

ByteDance Inc. · University of California, San Diego

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The authors analyzed how errors from DMD's critic, which estimates the difference between student and target distributions, propagate through successive student updates.

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From ByteDance Inc. and University of California, San Diego

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Projected Distribution Matching Distillation filters critic errors in video diffusion model distillation with a one-line code change.

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