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VA-TDM

VA-TDM: A Unified View for Improving Few-Step Diffusion Models by Velocity Adversarial Distillation

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GITHUB · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 52 upvotes (top 61%) · 0 views

Niche: computer vision software and models · 225 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →

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  • Horizontal
  • Model & infra
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No This is a research paper on diffusion model distillation. Reproducing it requires novel ML research, large-scale GPU training, and access to the paper's datasets and models.

What it would actually take: Reproducing the method requires an ML research team, a PyTorch training pipeline for diffusion teacher and student models, and multi-GPU compute for distillation runs. Results depend on the adversarial training details, which are the novel part of the paper.

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Launched 369 days after the earliest competitor.

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