Simplifying and Improving On-Policy Distillation for Few-Step Diffusion

arXiv:2610.18472 · cs.CV, cs.LG, eess.IV · Submitted 2026-10-13 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.LG, eess.IV

Submitted: 2026-10-13

Updated: 2026-10-13

Comments: Project Page: https://zjwfufu.github.io/SMD-Page/

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

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• On-Policy Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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