Mean Flow Distillation: Robust and Stable Distillation for Flow Matching Models
Flow Matching models have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of generative tasks. However, their reliance on ODE-based iterative sampling incurs substantial computational overhead in inference, which limits their applicability in real-time scenes. While distillation is a promising solution, existing approaches largely borrow from diffusion-based score matching, often failing to exploit the intrinsic geometric structure of flows and suffering from training instability, high variance, and degraded generation quality. In this paper, we propose Mean Flow Distillation (MFD), a novel distillation framework tailored for flow matching models. We theoretically demonstrate that MFD...
| Authors | An Zhao, Shengyuan Zhang, Zhongjian Sun et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 9 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 9 June 2026 |
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