‘SDXL-Lightning: Progressive Adversarial Diffusion Distillation’ introduces a novel diffusion distillation method for text-to-image generation. This approach strikes a balance between quality and mode coverage, involving:

• Theoretical analysis of the distillation process.
• Specialized discriminator design to refine the model.
• Innovative training techniques to enhance performance.

By releasing both LoRA and full UNet weights, SDXL-Lightning marks a strong presence in state-of-the-art one-step/few-step 1024px text-to-image generation. This method sets a new benchmark, showcasing significant advancements in the realism and diversity of AI-generated images.