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Nikita Starodubcev

5 accepted papers

2026

Inverse Entropic Optimal Transport Solves Semi-supervised Learning via Data Likelihood Maximization

ICML 2026poster

Learning conditional distributions $\pi^\star(\cdot|x)$ is a central problem in machine learning, which is typically approached via supervised methods with paired data $(x,y) \sim \pi^\star$. However, acquiring paired data samples is often challenging, especially in problems such as domain translati…

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2026

Revisiting Global Text Conditioning in Diffusion Transformers

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion transformers typically incorporate textual information via (i) attention layers and (ii) a modulation mechanism using a pooled text embedding. Nevertheless, recent approaches discard modulation-based text conditioning and rely exclusively on attention. In this paper, we address whether mod…

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2026

Scale-wise Distillation of Diffusion Models

ICLR 2026poster

Recent diffusion distillation methods have achieved remarkable progress, enabling high-quality ${\sim}4$-step sampling for large-scale text-conditional image and video diffusion models (DMs). However, further reducing the number of sampling steps becomes more and more challenging, suggesting that e…

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2024

Invertible Consistency Distillation for Text-Guided Image Editing in Around 7 Steps

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion distillation represents a highly promising direction for achieving faithful text-to-image generation in a few sampling steps. However, despite recent successes, existing distilled models still do not provide the full spectrum of diffusion abilities, such as real image inversion, which enab…

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2024

Your Student is Better Than Expected: Adaptive Teacher-Student Collaboration for Text-Conditional Diffusion Models

CVPR 2024poster

Knowledge distillation methods have recently shown to be a promising direction to speedup the synthesis of large-scale diffusion models by requiring only a few inference steps. While several powerful distillation methods were recently proposed the overall quality of student samples is typically lowe…