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Consistency Models

Maps any point on a trajectory directly to its endpoint for one-step generation.

一致性模型 2023 Advanced extended

IN PLAIN WORDS

Enforce consistent outputs along a denoising trajectory, so any noisy input maps to a clean image in one step; trained by distillation or from scratch. Basis of LCM-style fast generators.

Used in: LCM, real-time image generation

TIMELINE · prerequisites → this → what builds on it

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01Original paper

Consistency Models

Yang Song, Prafulla Dhariwal, Mark Chen, et al. · 2023

arXiv ↗ ✓ Verified · arXiv API

02Where it sits

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03Learning resources

Official docs, explainers, courses and reference code. All links checked.

Official docs

huggingface.co ↗EN

04Where the course teaches it

U72 Diffusion, Flow Matching & Image Generation VAE/GAN, DDPM/DDIM, score SDEs, latent diffusion, CFG, DiT, flow matching and ControlNet. 14 h15 algorithms6 papers

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