In plain words: Instead of training on one image, it treats the picture as patches at several sizes and cleans noisy patches with an exact formula, so nothing needs to be learned. It beats trained versions on quality and variety, making a megapixel image in one second.
Abstract
We consider the problem of generating images whose internal structure -- defined by the distribution of patches across multiple scales -- matches that of a single reference image. Recent approaches address this problem by training a diffusion model on a single image. But even in this setting, training is computationally expensive and requires hours of optimization. Instead, we model the image using a dataset of its patches at different scales. As this dataset is finite and the dimensionality of its patches is small, the score function for a noisy patch can be computed tractably using an optimal, closed-form denoiser, eliminating the need for neural network training. We integrate this patch-based denoiser into an efficient, training-free image diffusion model, and we describe how our method connects to classical patch-based image restoration techniques. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art generation quality and diversity compared to trained single-image diffusion models, and we demonstrate applications, including unconditional image generation, text-guided stylization, image symmetrization, and retargeting. Further, we show that our approach is compatible with latent space diffusion, and we show multiple additional acceleration techniques to achieve megapixel single-image generation in one second, and gigapixel generation in minutes.
Haojun Qiu, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, David B. Lindell
arXiv:2606.04299 · cs.CV, cs.LG · submitted Jun 3, 2026
abstract · pdf · html · CVPR 2026; Project Page: https://haojunqiu.github.io/efficient-SID/