[Latent Consistency Models (LCMs)](https://hf.co/papers/2310.04378) are able to generate high-quality images in just a few steps, representing a big leap forward because many pipelines require at least 25+ steps. LCMs are produced by applying the latent consistency distillation method to any Stable Diffusion model. This method works by applying *one-stage guided distillation* to the latent space, and incorporating a *skipping-step* method to consistently skip timesteps to accelerate the distillation process