NVIDIA's Parallel Decoding Distillation adopted by MiniMax for faster video gen
ArashVahdat · x · 2026-08-29
NVIDIA researcher Arash Vahdat noted that their Parallel Decoding Distillation (PDD) technique has already been independently implemented and used to accelerate MiniMax-H3 video generation, even before the official paper release or code open-sourcing.
PDD aims to significantly reduce the number of function evaluations (NFE) required for image and video generation (e.g., down to 4-8 steps) via distillation. An Alibaba team also demonstrated a similar implementation (MiniMax-H3 Acc LoRAs) utilizing PDD logic alongside FL2VA and Ref2VA workflows.
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