3 papers
cs.CV2026
Z-Reward: Beyond Scalar Rewards by Internalizing Reasoning into Score Distributions
Xin Jin, Huanqia Cai, Zhen Li +9
Reward models are central to text-to-image post-training, but visual preference is subjective and better represented as a distribution over rubric scores than as a deterministic sc…
cs.CV2026
High-Fidelity Two-Step Image Generation via Teacher-Aligned End-to-End Distillation
Dongyang Liu, Ruoyi Du, David Liu +7
Few-step diffusion distillation has become increasingly mature for 4-8-step generation, yet pushing further to 2 steps remains challenging. In this work, we introduce Z-Image Turbo…
cs.CV2025
Decoupled DMD: CFG Augmentation as the Spear, Distribution Matching as the Shield
Dongyang Liu, Peng Gao, David Liu +8
Diffusion model distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for creating efficient few-step and single-step generators. Among these, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) a…