CARV amortizes upstream diffusion teacher costs over noise resamples with timestep importance sampling and stratified-inverse-CDF sampling, delivering 2-3x effective compute gains in text-to-3D experiments and order-of-magnitude variance cuts in single-step distillation.
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Variance Reduction for Expectations with Diffusion Teachers
CARV amortizes upstream diffusion teacher costs over noise resamples with timestep importance sampling and stratified-inverse-CDF sampling, delivering 2-3x effective compute gains in text-to-3D experiments and order-of-magnitude variance cuts in single-step distillation.