GFD-OPD: Guidance-Folded On-Policy Distillation of Diffusion Models Across Scales

arXiv:2609.39692 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• On-Policy Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Flow-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for Flow Matching Models
• Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance in On-Policy Diffusion Distillation
• DiffusionOPD: A Unified Perspective of On-Policy Distillation in Diffusion Models
• MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Capability Integration in LLM Post-Training
• STEP-OPD: Rethinking Output Targets and Internal Dynamics in On-Policy Distillation for Diffusion Models
• Escaping the KL Agreement Trap in On-Policy Distillation
• Learning beyond Teacher: Generalized On-Policy Distillation with Reward Extrapolation
• GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

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