Summary
According to a post on X by @zongze_wu, a paper from Adobe and MIT studies Distribution Matching Distillation, a method for compressing diffusion models into few-step students. The paper finds that growing the teacher while keeping a small critic can degrade the few-step student and even collapse training. The authors report that scaling the critic with the teacher, along with a step-aware critic they call STAC, consistently improved few-step image and video generation on ImageNet, SDXL, FLUX.2 and Wan2.1.
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What happened
The paper finds that in Distribution Matching Distillation, growing the teacher while keeping a small critic can degrade the few-step student and even collapse training. Scaling the critic with the teacher, plus a step-aware critic the authors call STAC, consistently improved few-step image and video generation on...
Why it matters
Teams distilling large image or video diffusion models may need to scale the critic alongside the teacher rather than keeping it small. The post's snippet is cut off before fully spelling out the implications, so the exact guidance is not visible here. Watch for the full paper and any independent tests of STAC on other models.
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