arxivcs.CV2026-07-07
Bridging Diffusion Pruning and Step Distillation with Teacher-Aligned Repair
Jincheng Ying, Li Wenlin, Minghui Xu, Yinhao Xiao
Diffusion models generate high-quality images, but their inference cost comes from two sources: large denoising networks and repeated denoising steps. Existing compression pipelines usually attack these costs separately. Pruning reduces the network, but most pruning methods still…