Intermediate GenAI Systems
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Diffusion Distillation: Teaching a Fast Student to Paint Like a Slow Teacher
A diffusion model paints by taking dozens of small steps, each a full pass through a large network. Distillation trains a student to get there in one to four. Why steps are the cost that matters, and the three families of tricks (follow the path, match the result, add a critic) behind SDXL-Turbo, FLUX.1 schnell, DMD2 and real-time video.