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Conditional flow matching (CFM) stands out as an efficient, simulation-free approach for training flow-based generative models, achieving remarkable performance for data generation. However, CFM is insufficient to ensure accuracy in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Huang , Taos Transue , Shih-Hsin Wang , William Feldman , Hong Zhang , Bao Wang

We introduce TzK (pronounced "task"), a conditional probability flow-based model that exploits attributes (e.g., style, class membership, or other side information) in order to learn tight conditional prior around manifolds of the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Micha Livne , David J. Fleet

This paper proposes an information-theoretic representation learning framework, named conditional information flow maximization, to extract noise-invariant sufficient representations for the input data and target task. It promotes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Generative modeling has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning, but its direct applicability to challenging fields like medical imaging remains limited: mere generation, without task alignment, fails to provide a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Luca Caldera , Giacomo Bottacini , Lara Cavinato

A machine learning method to predict steady external fluid flows using elliptic input features is introduced. Using data from as few as one high-fidelity simulation, the proposed method produces models generalizable under changes to…

Standard flow matching scales well but typically relies on an unstructured source distribution, limiting its ability to learn interpretable latent structure. Latent-variable models, by contrast, capture structure but often sacrifice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xavier Sumba , Carles Balsells-Rodas , Yingzhen Li

Structured prediction is ubiquitous in applications of machine learning such as knowledge extraction and natural language processing. Structure often can be formulated in terms of logical constraints. We consider the question of how to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Ashish Kapoor , Eric Horvitz

Conditional generative modeling aims to learn a conditional data distribution from samples containing data-condition pairs. For this, diffusion and flow-based methods have attained compelling results. These methods use a learned (flow)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Chen Chen , Pengsheng Guo , Liangchen Song , Jiasen Lu , Rui Qian , Xinze Wang , Tsu-Jui Fu , Wei Liu , Yinfei Yang , Alex Schwing

We introduce a framework for unsupervised learning of structured predictors with overlapping, global features. Each input's latent representation is predicted conditional on the observable data using a feature-rich conditional random field.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Waleed Ammar , Chris Dyer , Noah A. Smith

A prominent goal of representation learning research is to achieve representations which are factorized in a useful manner with respect to the ground truth factors of variation. The fields of disentangled and equivariant representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yue Song , T. Anderson Keller , Nicu Sebe , Max Welling

Set prediction is about learning to predict a collection of unordered variables with unknown interrelations. Training such models with set losses imposes the structure of a metric space over sets. We focus on stochastic and underdefined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 David W. Zhang , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Cees G. M. Snoek

Granular flows govern many natural and industrial processes, yet their interior kinematics and mechanics remain largely unobservable, as experiments access only boundaries or free surfaces. Conventional numerical simulations are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xuyang Li , Rui Li , Teng Man , Yimin Lu

Automatic question generation is an important technique that can improve the training of question answering, help chatbots to start or continue a conversation with humans, and provide assessment materials for educational purposes. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Bang Liu , Mingjun Zhao , Di Niu , Kunfeng Lai , Yancheng He , Haojie Wei , Yu Xu

Generative AI has achieved remarkable empirical success, but from the perspective of statistics it often remains opaque: its predictions may be accurate, yet the underlying mechanism is difficult to interpret, analyze, and trust. This book…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Shinto Eguchi

Flow-based generative models provide strong unconditional priors for inverse problems, but guiding their dynamics for conditional generation remains challenging. Recent work casts training-free conditional generation in flow models as an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 George Webber , Alexander Denker , Riccardo Barbano , Andrew J Reader

Convolutional Neural Networks experience catastrophic forgetting when optimized on a sequence of learning problems: as they meet the objective of the current training examples, their performance on previous tasks drops drastically. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Davide Abati , Jakub Tomczak , Tijmen Blankevoort , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara , Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi

We propose two neural network based mixture models in this article. The proposed mixture models are explicit in nature. The explicit models have analytical forms with the advantages of computing likelihood and efficiency of generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Dong Liu , Minh Thành Vu , Saikat Chatterjee , Lars K. Rasmussen

Structured learning is appropriate when predicting structured outputs such as trees, graphs, or sequences. Most prior work requires the training set to consist of complete trees, graphs or sequences. Specifying such detailed ground truth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Xinghua Lou , Fred Hamprecht

Sliced-Wasserstein Flow (SWF) is a promising approach to nonparametric generative modeling but has not been widely adopted due to its suboptimal generative quality and lack of conditional modeling capabilities. In this work, we make two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Chao Du , Tianbo Li , Tianyu Pang , Shuicheng Yan , Min Lin

Graph data structures are fundamental for studying connected entities. With an increase in the number of applications where data is represented as graphs, the problem of graph generation has recently become a hot topic. However, despite its…