Author name: Linwei Dong, Ruoyu Guo, Ge Bai, Zehuan Yuan, Yawei Luo, Changqing Zou

Guiding Distribution Matching Distillation with Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning

Linwei Dong, Ruoyu Guo, Ge Bai, Zehuan Yuan, Yawei Luo, Changqing Zou / April 22, 2026

arXiv:2604.19009v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion distillation, exemplified by Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), has shown great promise in few-step generation but often sacrifices quality for sampling speed. While integrating Reinforc…

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Dual-End Consistency Model

Linwei Dong, Ruoyu Guo, Ge Bai, Zehuan Yuan, Yawei Luo, Changqing Zou / April 21, 2026

arXiv:2602.10764v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The slow iterative sampling nature remains a major bottleneck for the practical deployment of diffusion and flow-based generative models. While consistency models (CMs) represent a state-of-the-art d…