DUO-VSR: Dual-Stream Distillation for One-Step Video Super-Resolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22271v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:56:17 GMT
• Title: DUO-VSR: Dual-Stream Distillation for One-Step Video Super-Resolution
• Abstract summary: Diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) has recently achieved remarkable fidelity but still suffers from prohibitive sampling costs.<n>We propose DUO-VSR, a three-stage framework that unifies distribution matching and adversarial supervision for one-step VSR.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) has recently achieved remarkable fidelity but still suffers from prohibitive sampling costs. While distribution matching distillation (DMD) can accelerate diffusion models toward one-step generation, directly applying it to VSR often results in training instability alongside degraded and insufficient supervision. To address these issues, we propose DUO-VSR, a three-stage framework built upon a Dual-Stream Distillation strategy that unifies distribution matching and adversarial supervision for one-step VSR. Firstly, a Progressive Guided Distillation Initialization is employed to stabilize subsequent training through trajectory-preserving distillation. Next, the Dual-Stream Distillation jointly optimizes the DMD and Real-Fake Score Feature GAN (RFS-GAN) streams, with the latter providing complementary adversarial supervision leveraging discriminative features from both real and fake score models. Finally, a Preference-Guided Refinement stage further aligns the student with perceptual quality preferences. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DUO-VSR achieves superior visual quality and efficiency over previous one-step VSR approaches.

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