Few-Step Distillation for Text-to-Image Generation: A Practical Guide

yifan pu, Yizeng Han, Zhiwei Tang, Jiasheng Tang, Fan Wang, Bohan Zhuang, Gao Huang

Few-Step Distillation for Text-to-Image Generation: A Practical Guide: 12 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #21 of 41 papers on 2025-12-16. Day-by-day upvote history.

Diffusion distillation has dramatically accelerated class-conditional image synthesis, but its applicability to open-ended text-to-image (T2I) generation is still unclear. We present the first systematic study that adapts and compares state-of-the-art distillation techniques on a strong T2I teacher model, FLUX.1-lite. By casting existing methods into a unified framework, we identify the key obstacles that arise when moving from discrete class labels to free-form language prompts. Beyond a thorough methodological analysis, we offer practical guidelines on input scaling, network architecture, and hyperparameters, accompanied by an open-source implementation and pretrained student models. Our findings establish a solid foundation for deploying fast, high-fidelity, and resource-efficient diffusion generators in real-world T2I applications. Code is available on github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/T2I-Distill.

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