mlsanityData to 7 Oct 2026

DBMSolver: A Training-free Diffusion Bridge Sampler for High-Quality Image-to-Image Translation

arXiv 2605.05889 ↗First posted 7 May 2026cs.CV cs.AI cs.LGcited by 0

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

Diffusion-based image-to-image (I2I) translation excels in high-fidelity generation but suffers from slow sampling in state-of-the-art Diffusion Bridge Models (DBMs), often requiring dozens of function evaluations (NFEs). We introduce DBMSolver, a training-free sampler that exploits the semi-linear structure of DBM's underlying SDE and ODE via exponential integrators, yielding highly-efficient 1st- and 2nd-order solutions. This reduces NFEs by up to 5x while boosting quality (e.g., FID drops 53% on DIODE at 20 NFEs vs. 2nd-order baseline). Experiments on inpainting, stylization, and semantics-to-image tasks across resolutions up to 256x256 show DBMSolver sets new SOTA efficiency-quality tradeoffs, enabling real-world applicability. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/snumprlab/dbmsolver.

Key facts. No citing papers in the map yet (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 35 of its 44 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 May 2026.

Builds on

35 of 44 references.

Closest ancestors · 3

Same direction, newest first

  1. 2022BBDM: Image-to-image Translation with Brownian Bridge Diffusion Models16 May
  2. 2022Dual Diffusion Implicit Bridges for Image-to-Image Translation16 Mar
  3. 2021Palette: Image-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Nov

Other references · 32

  1. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 20,851
  2. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,694
  3. 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 9,655
  4. 2020Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 8,964
  5. 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesiscited by 8,185
  6. 2022Flow Matching for Generative Modelingcited by 5,426
  7. 2016Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networkscited by 4,510
  8. 2019Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGANcited by 3,580
  9. 2022Elucidating the Design Space of Diffusion-Based Generative Modelscited by 2,994
  10. 2022DPM-Solver: A Fast ODE Solver for Diffusion Probabilistic Model Sampling in Around 10 Stepscited by 1,961
  11. 2021SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 1,903
  12. 2021Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinementcited by 1,506
20 more
  1. 2019Semantic Image Synthesis with Spatially-Adaptive Normalizationcited by 1,295
  2. 2022Denoising Diffusion Restoration Modelscited by 951
  3. 2022DPM-Solver++: Fast Solver for Guided Sampling of Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 924
  4. 2019MaskGAN: Towards Diverse and Interactive Facial Image Manipulationcited by 624
  5. 2022Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Denoising Diffusion Null-Space Modelcited by 574
  6. 2023UniPC: A Unified Predictor-Corrector Framework for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Modelscited by 441
  7. 2018Diverse Image-to-Image Translation via Disentangled Representationscited by 296
  8. 2024Simplifying, Stabilizing and Scaling Continuous-Time Consistency Modelscited by 276
  9. 2019DIODE: A Dense Indoor and Outdoor DEpth Datasetcited by 236
  10. 2023I2SB: Image-to-Image Schr"odinger Bridgecited by 214
  11. 2023Denoising Diffusion Bridge Modelscited by 171
  12. 2024Consistency Models Made Easycited by 140
  13. 2020You Only Need Adversarial Supervision for Semantic Image Synthesiscited by 129
  14. 2025Inductive Moment Matchingcited by 107
  15. 2024EM Distillation for One-step Diffusion Modelscited by 60
  16. 2024Diffusion Bridge Implicit Modelscited by 47
  17. 2023Schrodinger Bridges Beat Diffusion Models on Text-to-Speech Synthesiscited by 29
  18. 2024Consistency Diffusion Bridge Modelscited by 22
  19. 2025Inverse Bridge Matching Distillationcited by 13
  20. 2024An Ordinary Differential Equation Sampler with Stochastic Start for Diffusion Bridge Modelscited by 2

Built on by

Not cited yet.

Similar, not cited

Close in wording, no citation either way

  1. 2025A Diffusion Model Translator for Efficient Image-to-Image Translation
  2. 2025CycleDiff: Cycle Diffusion Models for Unpaired Image-to-image Translation
  3. 2023DiffI2I: Efficient Diffusion Model for Image-to-Image Translation
  4. 2023Filter-Guided Diffusion for Controllable Image Generation
  5. 2024Diffusion Model Compression for Image-to-Image Translation
  6. 2023Improving Diffusion-based Image Translation using Asymmetric Gradient Guidance
  7. 2025OT-ALD: Aligning Latent Distributions with Optimal Transport for Accelerated Image-to-Image Translation
  8. 2024Diffusion-Based Image-to-Image Translation by Noise Correction via Prompt Interpolation