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arxivcs.CV2026-07-05

EMPURPLE: A Free Lunch for Diffusion Distillation based on the Information Bottleneck

Zilai Li, Lujia Bai

Diffusion models achieve impressive image-generation quality but remain expensive at inference time. Diffusion distillation reduces sampling steps, yet many distilled models, including SDXL-Lightning and distribution matching distillation methods, suffer from degraded Fréchet Inception Distance (FID). We analyze this phenomenon through a PAC-style generalization bound. Our analysis suggests that aggressive early-step redirection of the velocity field makes the distillation target harder to learn, enlarging the train-test gap. As a result, early-step output distributions differ between training and inference, causing distribution mismatch in the intermediate noisy latent used as next-step inputs. We empirically validate this mechanism by showing reduced diversity in both intermediate features and final outputs. To address this issue, we propose EMPURPLE, a simple training-free method that recycles intermediate latents sampled from the original model. EMPURPLE is model-agnostic and improves FID by 7\% to 20\% across DMD2, Hyper-SD, FlashSD, and SDXL-Lightning. The repo is: https://github.com/TheLovesOfLadyPurple/Empurple-Training-Free-Algorithm-To-enhance-Diversity-of-The-Diffusion-Distillation-Model

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