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D-OPSD diffusion self-distillation paper

D-OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continuously Tuning Step-Distilled Diffusion Models

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Ted Underwood AI Firehose Adverb

“D-OPSD transforms training for step-distilled diffusion models, enabling on-policy self-distillation to learn new concepts without sacrificing efficient few-step inference. This enhances image quality and response speed for AI-generated content. https://arx…”

“absolutely goated paper for anyone working with distilled diffusion models lately: arxiv.org/abs/2605.05204”

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4 experts · 6 posts · 5d ago
Tim Kellogg Arseny Khakhalin Alex Gude Adverb
Alex Gude : logged into Mastodon for the first time in a long while it’s a lot of software developers egging each other on into career self-harm, I don’t know how else to say it if your career is symbol proces…
Arseny Khakhalin: One has to have a _really_ body affirming and sexuality positive set of base level opinions in their head to read this thread well haha 😅 I think I can guess what the op means, but that's not a nat…
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2 experts · 8 posts · 8d ago
Isaiah Bishop Adverb
Adverb: my take on agentic systems is that they're the hand-engineered way to do inference-time scaling and that the a lot of the core work there should and will be bitter-lessoned away eventually.
Isaiah Bishop: implies that the moat there is pretty weak i think? if the limit is resources surely anyone can do it
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3 experts · 3 posts · 7d ago
jake Adverb mackuba.eu
mackuba.eu: this is basically unvaccinated-sperm but for software
jake: if it's good enough for the Linux kernel, I think that battle is long dead. it's like, an ex-battle, pining for the fjords.
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