arxivcs.CV2026-07-03
A Decomposable Probe for Few-Step Diffusion Models: Prompt, Latent, and Score Selectivity across Backbone Families and Distillation Paradigms
Few-step distilled diffusion students cut text-to-image inference from ~50 to 1-8 network evaluations, but the quality gap is usually summarised by a single FID/CLIP scalar that cannot say which axis of the conditioning response changed, nor whether a behaviour comes from the arc…