LCMs are distilled from pretrained models which requires ~32 hours of A100 compute. To speed this up, [LCM-LoRAs](https://hf.co/papers/2311.05556) train a [LoRA adapter](https://huggingface.co/docs/peft/conceptual_guides/adapter#low-rank-adaptation-lora) which have much fewer parameters to train compared to the full model. The LCM-LoRA can be plugged into a diffusion model once it has been trained.