Diffusion models are slower than their GAN counterparts because of the iterative and sequential reverse diffusion process. There are several techniques that can address this limitation such as progressive timestep distillation ([LCM LoRA](../using-diffusers/inference_with_lcm_lora)), model compression ([SSD-1B](https://huggingface.co/segmind/SSD-1B)), and reusing adjacent features of the denoiser ([DeepCache](../optimization/deepcache)).