Latent Consistency Distillation Latent Consistency Models (LCMs) 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 consisten