SDXL-Lightning: Progressive Adversarial Diffusion Distillation
Authors: name: Shanchuan Lin, name: Anran Wang, name: Xiao Yang

We propose a diffusion distillation method that achieves new state-of-the-art
in one-step/few-step 1024px text-to-image generation based on SDXL. Our method
combines progressive and adversarial distillation to achieve a balance between
quality and mode coverage. In this paper, we discuss the theoretical analysis,
discriminator design, model formulation, and training techniques. We
open-source our distilled SDXL-Lightning models both as LoRA and full UNet
weights.