arXiv:2606.05981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aggressive distillation of the diffusion U-Net inverts the per-frame bottleneck of real-time text-to-image pipelines: once the denoiser is a 4-step or 1-step distilled student, the text encoder becomes the critical path. This inversion is most acute in vision-aware edit diffusion, where the encoder is a multimodal large language model (MLLM). We study the case of a 0.39B distilled edit U-Net paired with a 2.13B MLLM text encoder (Qwen3-VL) and present a streaming pipeline targeted at this regime built around three engineering mechanisms: asymme
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