SMD: Simplified Matching Distillation for Few-Step Diffusion

A team led by raywzy1 released Simplified Matching Distillation (SMD), a distillation method for few-step diffusion that requires no auxiliary score model, discriminator, or adversarial training, and has been validated at scales up to 33B parameters.

2026-10-19 ~ 2026-10-20 · 2 related posts

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