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Diffusion model distillation shows 'copying' behavior in high dimensions

Researchers have identified a phenomenon called 'copying' in high-dimensional distillation of diffusion models. This occurs when a distilled student model replicates the original noise-data pairings of the teacher model, a behavior not observed in lower-dimensional settings. The study suggests this copying is an emergent property due to the student model's limited geometric freedom during distillation, rather than adversarial objectives or teacher memorization. AI

IMPACT Identifies a new behavior in diffusion model distillation, potentially impacting efficiency and generalization in compressed models.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Shucheng Li, Iolo Jones, Alexander Tong, Michael M. Bronstein ·

    Why Are DMD Students Lazy? Understanding the Copying Behavior in Few-Step Distillation

    arXiv:2606.02237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) compresses pretrained diffusion models into efficient few-step generators by aligning their noised distributions across all scales. In principle, such distribution-level supervision remains a…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Michael M. Bronstein ·

    Why Are DMD Students Lazy? Understanding the Copying Behavior in Few-Step Distillation

    Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) compresses pretrained diffusion models into efficient few-step generators by aligning their noised distributions across all scales. In principle, such distribution-level supervision remains agnostic to specific noise-data pairings of the t…