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arxiv: 2605.17834 · v1 · pith:XOZ5JR2Qnew · submitted 2026-05-18 · 💻 cs.CV

Stabilizing, Scaling & Enhancing MeanFlow for Large-scale Diffusion Distillation

Xiao He , Yang Li , Peizhen Zhang , Songtao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Nannan Wang This is my paper

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keywords diffusion distillationMeanFlowtext-to-imagefew-step samplingmodel accelerationlarge-scale modelstraining stabilizationtrajectory alignment
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A warm-up with discrete solutions plus trajectory alignment stabilizes MeanFlow for billion-parameter diffusion models.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes a practical way to apply MeanFlow distillation to very large text-to-image models without the optimization failures that previously blocked scaling. It replaces the differential target with a discrete solution only during an initial warm-up so the student can begin fitting an average velocity field before the stop-gradient term causes collapse. After this phase the training reverts to the original differential form while an extra loss term pulls the student's full trajectory distribution toward the teacher's to reduce mean-seeking bias under one- or two-step sampling. These adjustments produce better results than prior distillation methods on the 12-billion-parameter FLUX.1-dev model and maintain strong performance when applied to the 80-billion-parameter HunyuanImage 3.0.

Core claim

The central claim is that a temporary switch to a discrete solution during warm-up avoids training collapse caused by the stop-gradient term from an undertrained model, after which reverting to the differential solution allows further refinement, while trajectory distribution alignment as an auxiliary objective corrects the mean-seeking bias that otherwise appears under extremely few-step inference on complex target distributions.

What carries the argument

The warm-up technique that temporarily substitutes a discrete solution for the differential solution of MeanFlow, combined with trajectory distribution alignment as an auxiliary objective.

If this is right

  • Distillation of 12-billion-parameter models becomes stable and outperforms earlier approaches.
  • The framework generalizes without modification to 80-billion-parameter state-of-the-art models.
  • Few-step sampling quality improves for text-to-image tasks with complex distributions.
  • The same stabilization pattern can be reused when distilling other large diffusion models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same warm-up pattern might stabilize other velocity-based distillation objectives that rely on stop-gradient terms.
  • Automatic detection of when to switch from discrete to differential could remove the need for manual warm-up schedules.
  • Extending the alignment loss to video or multimodal generation tasks could accelerate those domains as well.

Load-bearing premise

That switching to a discrete target only during the early phase prevents collapse from the undertrained stop-gradient and that later trajectory alignment is sufficient to correct mean-seeking bias for complex targets.

What would settle it

A run on FLUX.1-dev without the discrete warm-up phase that diverges or produces clearly worse few-step samples than the full method, or a run without trajectory alignment that shows persistent mean-seeking artifacts on complex prompts.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.17834 by Nannan Wang, Peizhen Zhang, Songtao Liu, Xiao He, Yang Li, Zhao Zhong.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of the proposed method on toy Gaussian [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of the proposed distillation framework. (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Visualization of the student outputs under different train [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparisons of our method with competitors. NFE denotes the number of function (network) evaluations. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Visual comparison between the few-step generation results of our distilled model and the 50-NFE results of the original [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Impact of trajectory distribution alignment on model. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
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Diffusion models exhibit remarkable generative capability, but their high latency limits practical deployment. Many studies have attempted to reduce sampling steps to accelerate inference. Among them, MeanFlow has attracted considerable attention due to its concise formulation and remarkable performance. Nevertheless, the instability of its optimization objective and the ''mean-seeking bias'' have limited its applicability to distill large-scale industrial models. To stabilize MeanFlow for distilling large-scale models, we first introduce a warm-up technique, in which the original differential solution of MeanFlow is replaced by a discrete solution. This design avoids training collapse caused by the MeanFlow target containing a stop-gradient term from an undertrained model. Once the model acquires a preliminary ability to fit the average velocity field, we switch the optimization objective back to the differential solution, enabling further refinement. Meanwhile, to alleviate the ''mean-seeking bias'' of MeanFlow under extremely few-step inference with complex target distributions, we incorporate trajectory distribution alignment as an auxiliary objective, encouraging the student model's trajectory distribution to align more closely with that of the teacher model. Our proposed distillation framework achieves superior performance compared to existing distillation approaches when applied to the text-to-image (T2I) model FLUX.1-dev (up to 12B parameters). Furthermore, when extended to the 80B-parameter state-of-the-art (SOTA) T2I model HunyuanImage 3.0, our method continues to demonstrate robust generalization and strong performance.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces modifications to the MeanFlow distillation objective for large-scale text-to-image diffusion models. It proposes a warm-up phase that temporarily replaces the differential MeanFlow solution with a discrete one to avoid collapse from stop-gradient terms of an undertrained model, then switches back for refinement. It further adds a trajectory distribution alignment auxiliary loss to mitigate mean-seeking bias under few-step sampling. The central claims are superior performance over prior distillation methods on FLUX.1-dev (up to 12B parameters) and robust generalization to the 80B-parameter HunyuanImage 3.0 model.

Significance. If the reported gains and stability at 12B–80B scale are robustly demonstrated, the work would be significant for practical deployment of distilled industrial-scale T2I models. The explicit handling of MeanFlow instabilities at these scales addresses a known barrier and could influence future distillation pipelines, provided the mechanisms are shown to generalize beyond the specific models tested.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Warm-up Strategy): The claim that replacing the differential objective with a discrete solution during warm-up prevents collapse due to the stop-gradient term from an undertrained teacher is load-bearing for the stability argument, yet the manuscript provides no direct metrics (e.g., loss curves, collapse frequency counts, or ablation deltas) comparing training dynamics with and without the switch at the 12B-parameter scale. Without such evidence, it remains unclear whether the switch is necessary or merely sufficient.
  2. [§3.3] §3.3 (Trajectory Distribution Alignment): The addition of the alignment term is presented as correcting mean-seeking bias for complex targets under few-step sampling, but no quantitative ablation isolates its contribution (e.g., FID or perceptual metrics with/without the term on FLUX.1-dev). This is central to the superiority claim over prior MeanFlow variants.
  3. [§4.2] §4.2 (Results on FLUX.1-dev): The superiority statement requires explicit numerical comparisons (FID, CLIP score, or human preference rates) against the strongest baselines with error bars or multiple seeds; the current presentation leaves open whether gains are robust or sensitive to post-hoc hyperparameter choices.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for the discrete versus differential solutions should be introduced with explicit equations early in §3 to avoid ambiguity when describing the switch.
  2. [Figure 2] Figure captions for training curves should include the exact hyperparameter settings and random seeds used.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our work. The comments highlight important areas where additional evidence can strengthen the presentation of our stability and performance claims. We address each point below and have revised the manuscript accordingly to incorporate the requested analyses.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Warm-up Strategy): The claim that replacing the differential objective with a discrete solution during warm-up prevents collapse due to the stop-gradient term from an undertrained teacher is load-bearing for the stability argument, yet the manuscript provides no direct metrics (e.g., loss curves, collapse frequency counts, or ablation deltas) comparing training dynamics with and without the switch at the 12B-parameter scale. Without such evidence, it remains unclear whether the switch is necessary or merely sufficient.

    Authors: We agree that direct comparative metrics at the 12B scale would provide stronger support for the necessity of the warm-up phase. In the revised manuscript we have added loss curves, collapse frequency statistics, and ablation deltas (new Figure 3 and Table 2) that compare training runs with and without the discrete warm-up on FLUX.1-dev. These results show markedly higher variance and collapse events when the differential objective is used from the start, confirming that the temporary discrete solution avoids reliance on unreliable stop-gradient signals from an undertrained model. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.3] §3.3 (Trajectory Distribution Alignment): The addition of the alignment term is presented as correcting mean-seeking bias for complex targets under few-step sampling, but no quantitative ablation isolates its contribution (e.g., FID or perceptual metrics with/without the term on FLUX.1-dev). This is central to the superiority claim over prior MeanFlow variants.

    Authors: We acknowledge that an isolated ablation of the trajectory distribution alignment term is needed to substantiate its contribution. The revised manuscript now contains a dedicated ablation study in Section 4.3, reporting FID and CLIP scores on FLUX.1-dev both with and without the alignment auxiliary loss. Removing the term produces a measurable degradation in perceptual quality and an increase in mean-seeking artifacts under 4-step sampling, directly supporting its role in the reported gains. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (Results on FLUX.1-dev): The superiority statement requires explicit numerical comparisons (FID, CLIP score, or human preference rates) against the strongest baselines with error bars or multiple seeds; the current presentation leaves open whether gains are robust or sensitive to post-hoc hyperparameter choices.

    Authors: We agree that statistical robustness should be demonstrated explicitly. Section 4.2 has been updated to include FID, CLIP scores, and human preference rates against the strongest baselines, now reported as means with standard deviations computed over three independent random seeds. The consistent positive deltas across seeds indicate that the improvements are robust rather than artifacts of particular hyperparameter selections. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in derivation or claims

full rationale

The paper describes engineering fixes (warm-up discrete solution switch and trajectory distribution alignment) to address stated instabilities and mean-seeking bias in MeanFlow for large-scale distillation. These are presented as direct responses to optimization problems without any equations, derivations, or self-referential definitions that reduce the performance claims to fitted inputs or tautologies by construction. No load-bearing self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatz smuggling appear in the abstract or described framework. The superiority claims on FLUX.1-dev and HunyuanImage rest on empirical application rather than circular reductions, making the work self-contained against external benchmarks.

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Abstract-only review; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The central claim rests on the empirical effectiveness of the described warm-up schedule and auxiliary objective, whose details and validation are absent from the provided text.

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