One-page reference: the step-tax arithmetic, the distillation idea, the seven named methods with their step ranges and uses, the step-budget decision (batch vs interactive vs real-time), and the pitfalls (CFG=1.0, licence-per-version).
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AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Models and Inference to Computer Vision, Speech, Search, and Generative Video
This cheat sheet explains the step tax of diffusion models, seven distillation methods with their step ranges, and how to budget steps for batch, interactive or real-time generation. Volume 6 covers generative video in depth, alongside the AI feature lifecycle, deployment topologies, model artifacts and the ML minimum needed to make these calls. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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