Stable Score Distillation for High-Quality 3D Generation
Authors: name: Boshi Tang, name: Jianan Wang, name: Zhiyong Wu, name: Lei Zhang

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has exhibited remarkable performance in
conditional 3D content generation. However, a comprehensive understanding of
the SDS formulation is still lacking, hindering the development of 3D
generation. In this work, we present an interpretation of SDS as a combination
of three functional components: mode-disengaging, mode-seeking and
variance-reducing terms, and analyze the properties of each. We show that
problems such as over-smoothness and color-saturation result from the intrinsic
deficiency of the supervision terms and reveal that the variance-reducing term
introduced by SDS is sub-optimal. Additionally, we shed light on the adoption
of large Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) scale for 3D generation. Based on the
analysis, we propose a simple yet effective approach named Stable Score
Distillation (SSD) which strategically orchestrates each term for high-quality
3D generation. Extensive experiments validate the efficacy of our approach,
demonstrating its ability to generate high-fidelity 3D content without
succumbing to issues such as over-smoothness and over-saturation, even under
low CFG conditions with the most challenging NeRF representation.