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Main Authors: Zhang, Guoqiang, Niwa, Kenta, Lewis, J. P., Mesnage, Cedric, Kleijn, W. Bastiaan
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20744
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author Zhang, Guoqiang
Niwa, Kenta
Lewis, J. P.
Mesnage, Cedric
Kleijn, W. Bastiaan
author_facet Zhang, Guoqiang
Niwa, Kenta
Lewis, J. P.
Mesnage, Cedric
Kleijn, W. Bastiaan
contents We introduce relative and absolute position matching (RAPM), a diffusion distillation method resulting in high quality generation that can be trained efficiently on a single GPU. Recent diffusion distillation research has achieved excellent results for high-resolution text-to-image generation with methods such as phased consistency models (PCM) and improved distribution matching distillation (DMD2). However, these methods generally require many GPUs (e.g.~8-64) and significant batchsizes (e.g.~128-2048) during training, resulting in memory and compute requirements that are beyond the resources of some researchers. RAPM provides effective single-GPU diffusion distillation training with a batchsize of 1. The new method attempts to mimic the sampling trajectories of the teacher model by matching the relative and absolute positions. The design of relative positions is inspired by PCM. Two discriminators are introduced accordingly in RAPM, one for matching relative positions and the other for absolute positions. Experimental results on StableDiffusion (SD) V1.5 and SDXL indicate that RAPM with 4 timesteps produces comparable FID scores as the best method with 1 timestep under very limited computational resources.
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spellingShingle High Quality Diffusion Distillation on a Single GPU with Relative and Absolute Position Matching
Zhang, Guoqiang
Niwa, Kenta
Lewis, J. P.
Mesnage, Cedric
Kleijn, W. Bastiaan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
We introduce relative and absolute position matching (RAPM), a diffusion distillation method resulting in high quality generation that can be trained efficiently on a single GPU. Recent diffusion distillation research has achieved excellent results for high-resolution text-to-image generation with methods such as phased consistency models (PCM) and improved distribution matching distillation (DMD2). However, these methods generally require many GPUs (e.g.~8-64) and significant batchsizes (e.g.~128-2048) during training, resulting in memory and compute requirements that are beyond the resources of some researchers. RAPM provides effective single-GPU diffusion distillation training with a batchsize of 1. The new method attempts to mimic the sampling trajectories of the teacher model by matching the relative and absolute positions. The design of relative positions is inspired by PCM. Two discriminators are introduced accordingly in RAPM, one for matching relative positions and the other for absolute positions. Experimental results on StableDiffusion (SD) V1.5 and SDXL indicate that RAPM with 4 timesteps produces comparable FID scores as the best method with 1 timestep under very limited computational resources.
title High Quality Diffusion Distillation on a Single GPU with Relative and Absolute Position Matching
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20744