arXiv AI

DMAD: Distribution Matching as Adversarial Distillation for Fast Visual Generation

arXiv AI
5d ago

Persistent Negatives for Adversarial Black-Box On-Policy Distillation

The paper introduces Persistent Negative Adversarial Distillation, a method that improves black-box on-policy distillation by maintaining a live pool of historical teacher–student comparisons to stabilize the discriminator’s negative distribution. By anchoring the discriminator with these persistent negatives, the approach reduces reward-estimation error and yields smoother, higher-performing student policies across multiple benchmarks. The study demonstrates that the choice of negative samples is a critical design factor in effective black-box distillation.

By Haixu Ma, Saad Lahrichi, Weiwei Li, Kevin Han, Weiqiang Wu, Peggy Yang, Dongzhuo Li, Ruiyi Li, Serena Li, Gedi Zhou, Mingze Gao, Abhishek Kumar, Xiangjun Fan, Lizhu Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

RL-Native Distillation: Exploiting Scored Trajectories for Few-Step Image Generation

arXiv:2608. 09226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient text-to-image generation requires both reinforcement-learning (RL)-based reward alignment and few-step distillation, yet these procedures are typically performed sequentially, increasing training cost and risking the loss of reward gains during compression.

By Yuhan Li, Fangao Zeng, Sicong Kang, Mengfei Xu, Hao Zhou, Wei Li, Pipei Huang, Bingbing Ni
arXiv AI
5d ago

DyMD: Preserving Interaction Dynamics through Distribution Matching Distillation in Few-Step Video World Models

DyMD introduces a Distribution Matching Distillation framework that adapts teacher supervision and critic fitting to preserve interaction dynamics in few-step video generation. By employing temporal affinity–conditioned re‑noise sampling and dynamics‑guided fake‑score tracking, DyMD balances motion recovery with visual quality. The method distills a 14B teacher into a 1.3B student that achieves significant gains on embodied‑video benchmarks and downstream action planning tasks.

By Haojun Xu, Jie Huang, Xin Lu, Mingchen Zhong, Zihao Fan, Linjiang Huang, Si Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Optimizing Few-Step Generation with Adaptive Matching Distillation

arXiv:2602. 07345v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) is a powerful acceleration paradigm, yet its stability is often compromised in Forbidden Zone, regions where the real teacher provides unreliable guidance while the fake teacher exerts insufficient repulsive force.

By Lichen Bai, Zikai Zhou, Shitong Shao, Wenliang Zhong, Shuo Yang, Shuo Chen, Bojun Chen, Zeke Xie